My AppleTV has been getting noisy recently, and also seemed to be running hot (yes, I know they always run hot – this was *really* hot). Given I’ve a day off today while our living room is attacked by the fireplace people I thought I’d have a look.
Firstly, getting the rubber cover off of the [...]
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 chatting [...]
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 [...]
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 macbook [...]
It’s been a while, no, I’m not dead. Just not really posting anything on here
Anyway, happy now Tony?
Could be an interesting day tomorrow firstly, Apple event – *finally* the Apple tablet will make an appearance? Sounds from the rumours it’s going to be more iphone than mac though so I’m less [...]
First, we have a bit of a “security incident” on the main webserver at work. Turns out we were fairly lucky – lessons learnt last time something similar happen saved us (firewall *outgoing* connections++).
Still the same old issues of too many web authors publishing any old crap to the server and no real resource to [...]
Went into town today – first time in months and was surprised to find it so busy that I had to park on the top floor of the shiny new car park (£1.10 an hour?? Blimey).
OMG….
What a load of crap! Seems the seagulls use it for target practice (yes yes, I know it’s got my [...]
So, the last GP for quite sometime at Silverstone was today.
Except I can’t quite believe it will be. Bernie the poison dwarf said there would be a British GP (come on, no one believed he would pull that one…). Even Gim^H^H^HMax said F1 would be back at Silverstone in 2010. In the same way as [...]