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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008That lovely, big, cuddly, megacorp Microsoft is getting on my nerves recently. I am not one of those moron’s that hates Microsoft because I think it’s cool (though I could probably register high on many other moron measurements). I like a lot of Microsoft products, I have defended them in the past and I have [...]
Netgear WG311T Working on Windows Home Server
Monday, July 7th, 2008OK, hopefully I am now back with a bitch bang. No really it’s a bitch and moan about Netgear drivers, but it’s also one of those rare situations where I can also offer a solution.
Having moved into the new house, my little Windows Home Server had been pretty neglected. It sat in the workroom at [...]
Export Certificates Easily From One Keystore to Another
Monday, February 18th, 2008Suppose you have website with secure shopping, then suppose it is distributed across many (14 in our case) servers, and that each of those servers has it’s own keystore with something like 35-40 certificates which are required for the various payment providers. Then suppose the enablement of a certain security feature in you web platform [...]
Complete Guide to Upgrading an Unlocked 1.02 iPhone to an Unlocked 1.1.1 iPhone
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007Does what it says on the tin (Mac only atm)
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OpenSuse is Back! This time it works!
Monday, October 22nd, 2007Every dog has it’s day they say and today that dog is called SUSE. Well OpenSuse 10.3 to be precise. I spend a lot of time messing around with various distros and operating systems (even if I don’t intend to keep them on my machine) so that I can keep up to date with [...]
Beginner’s Guide to Unlocking the iPhone for Any Sim Card
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007It’s a fantastic achievement by the anySim team to create the GUI, ‘one click’ solution to unlocking the iPhone, but to be honest things are getting very confusing with so many versions flying around, so many contradictory guides, and so many relative success / failure stories. So what I hope to achieve in this [...]
Building a Media Centre/Center HTPC (Part 2)
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007Continued from Part 1
So… after much delay all the components arrived. Ten days in all, I am not used to having to wait more than two or three days typically so that was a real test of my patience! However I will forgive them as they sent me a faster processor (2.2ghz as [...]
Building a Media Centre/Center HTPC (Part 1)
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007Over the last 3 or 4 years I have almost unknowingly built a Media Centre PC (aka HTPC). Its been like a slow amalgamation of old parts into a Frankenstein machine that now boasts 5 hard drives (3 sata & 2 IDE), an occasional DVD/RW that sometimes lives in another machine, a server case, various [...]
A Cry for Help (P990 & Evolution Synching)
Monday, May 14th, 2007Has anyone managed to successfully sync the Sony Ericsson P990i with Evolution (calendar & contacts are the bare essentials)? I am having no luck trying to hack Multisync into working with the P990 at all! Here’s the deal… if someone can point me in the right direction, and I then get it to work, [...]
Live for Windows Pricing Announced
Wednesday, March 7th, 2007Taken from gameinformer.com
"While Microsoft was quite quiet about Live for Windows Vista, today during a press event prior to the Game Developers Conference the company revealed to Game Informer Online the exact pricing structure for the service. Live for Windows Vista will actually be the same exact price for Vista as it is [...]