Oracle claim they will plough more effort/money/monkeys into Solaris. This is a good thing IMO. However, they also seem to have made a move that is going to make Solaris harder for people to use/dev/playwith on a small scale. Oracle have stopped users being able to download updates without a contract. This sucks. A couple [...]
After my wireless went screwy, and then our Sky box started to bugger about I had a look at what I could get from VirginMedia. I don’t like Sky. I’ve never liked Sky. I’d like HD but I refuse to pay more for it so a V+ box looked appealing. After doing the sums and [...]
Woke the Mac up this morning, and was presented with a warning that I’d not unmounted a disk correctly. Uh oh… Seems that for the second time, my 1TB external WD MyBook has crapped out and just clicks Bit of fiddling with powercycling and percussive maintenaince has got it back online again but I think [...]
Over the weekend my trusty old multimeter gave up the ghost (it must be 15 years old so I can’t complain really). A quick hunt around the local area revealed nothing of great interest so a lunchtime trip to Maplins was sorted. A short while later and I’m the owner of a “True RMS Autoranging [...]
For the last couple of days, the wireless on my Macbook (alu unibody) has been unreliable. Packet lost to the router of 20-40% at times! Having a look around, it seems that the once wifi-free locality is now rather stuffed with Sky and talktalk wifi access points – all clashing and it seems that the [...]