Just to pick up a few points here about the Surface as my main work device / PC. Our standard environment is Windows 7 and we are testing Windows 8. So I often run Windows 7 in a VM on the Surface. Now that’s pretty cool seeing Windows 7 running in a VM on top of Windows 8… Read More »
Nice surprise in the mail today, my Surface Pro dock arrived. I have been using the Surface as my primary work PC / device now for nearly 4 months. ie this is what I use for work all day, and when I take a tablet to meetings it’s the same device just unplugged. To now I have been… Read More »
I am documenting here some work I have been doing over the last couple of weeks to get together a mini low power data centre (lab or private cloud if you like). What I wanted to do at the start was to have something I could run up Vmware ESXi on to get to to know this software… Read More »
Just an update, I noticed that the genealogy page getting a lot of hits but the pages it was linked to do not exist any more. Now that I have local access to the server I will rectify that in the next week or so and get my Family History stuff back on line.This is actually now done… Read More »
Hi all, hoping to publish some interesting stuff here soon as I move this web site to my home data centre and my newly set-up “private cloud” using XCP and an Intel NUC. For now just testing everything works after the upgrade to Joomla 3.1 from 2.5 and also moving the web site off Mac OS X server… Read More »
Hi all, I am in the process of moving the site to Joomla 2.5 so there may be a few broken links etc, please bear with me, I expect to have this finished in a couple of days. Update 20/02/2013 This migration is mostly done, need to go through the site and check links etc against what shows… Read More »
I am documenting here the steps I took to convert a bunch of Windows PST files to Mbox format for importing into Apple Mail. This uses freely available open source software and the command line and it is not for your average user. There may be some cost involved in getting your hands on Xcode so you can… Read More »
Coming from Windows to Mac I occasionally find little annoyances that get in the way of how I am used to working. One of those is right clicking a file and just being able to select send to email recipient. While this is possible out of the box with Apple Mail it is not with Outlook 2011. However… Read More »
Please bear with me while I rebuild the site back from scratch. The server is was hosted on went south and of course the backup drive went south as well. I have got most of my articles back and will slowly add back downloads. If you are looking for Loggerythm I should have links back in a couple… Read More »
I was looking around for some CPU benchmarks and happened to stumble across this piece of crap on what always used to be quite a good web site http://www.tomshardware.com/us/press/OCP-Power-Safety-26 I have reproduced the entire ad / article lest it be pulled. Myth 3: A Single Rail Power Supply Is As Safe As A Multi Rail Power Supply! NO! Single-rail… Read More »