The old tf.erzz.com - Teenage black!
Though its only been a couple of months since we last updated the look, I was never quite happy with it. SO many different tidbits of information that had no boundaries and required real brainpower to visually seperate. continue reading »
The Mac Pro is ‘Out for Delivery’ according to the TNT tracking page so that means, with luck, it should be in my sweaty anticipatory palms by this evening. In between refreshing the tracking status every five minutes I will start off this article which will cover many things. continue reading »
Wow, what an great laundry list of features coming to version 3.0 of the iPhone firmware. Copy and Paste, MMS, Stereo Bluetooth A2DP support and Search (spotlight) are amongst a huge overhaul of the iPhone.
For more info check http://live.gizmodo.com/
Almost Free?
Having placed my order for a new 2009 Mac Pro, I have set myself (and my wife) a goal of making it pay for itself in 12 months.
For someone who has 40 hours a week to work on such a thing, that doesn’t seem like much of a challenge. But I have a full time job and a 10 month old son, so the most I will be able to give to such a project is at best a couple of hours a day! But I have a few angles to attack this on.
Total War with extra musket!
Time to try something new, I thought. Maybe it will suck, maybe not, who knows, who cares?
A live blog review of Empire Total War starting with my pre-release expectations through to some point in the future where I get bored of the thing – genius right? We will see, but here it comes 
2nd March 2009 13:00 – Expectations
I am a big fan of the Total War series, not to the point of building my own mods and doing the virtual equivalent of painting my own soldiers, but I have thoroughly enjoyed almost every one of the series.
Starting all that time ago with Shogun Total War where my breath was taken away by SO MANY stick figure soldiers on the battlefield and being introduced to that seemingly vast campaign map. continue reading »
As always after a move of the site and a redesign I have been paying a little more attention to the stats than usual, as it’s pretty funny to see some of the stuff in there.
To give an idea of scale the site gets about 2500 visitors per day and so is by no means some great revelation in terms of user habits, but still some interesting stuff. continue reading »
If there is one thing that has gotten this site more hits than any other topic, it is the billing problem described here when moving from one country to another with an XBox Live subscription. After two years of inaction from Microsoft, it’s time to take it the top! continue reading »
Low power consumption doesn't mean low performance
So Windows Home Server is a chunk of code I have been very impressed with for a long time, even in Beta I trusted it completely and it has filled several needs in our house without a single hiccup. But the time came when I needed to run it on some decent and well considered hardware. continue reading »
Just wanted to point out an excellent guide on how to install WHS from a USB stick. Why on earth would someone want to do that? Well if you have bought any of the machines specifically designed for WHS you will likely find that they have no optical media drive as they are designed to be headless, quiet, never touched machines.
In my case I got the Tranquil PC T7 (review coming soon!) and used the option to buy without the WHS software as I already had a disk/license. Thus I needed a way to install WHS without buying an external DVD drive that I would only ever use once.
Some other manufacturers use a restore partition to get around the problem, but wouldn’t that space be better used for actual server storage? So owners of such machines may consider scrubbing that partition and adding it to the main WHS volume sets, and resinstalling WHS.
Anyway here is the guide, it’s crystal clear but if you need help just ask
INSTALL WHS USING ONLY A USB STICK
Heart Internet in a Nutshell
So yes, another new look and a new opportunity to rant. The rant this time is directed at my old webhost Heart Internet who have displayed some shocking customer service to add to 5 years of very mediocre service and thus finally pushed me to finding a far better host for less money!
So lets take the rants one by one: continue reading »
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