Archive for January, 2008

Digital TV

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008

HORRAY
Currys, Dixons and PC World are to stop stocking analogue televisions and will instead promote “integrated” sets with built-in digital Freeview tuners.

Chicken Madras HELL

Monday, January 21st, 2008

It???s been a long time since I had an Indian take away, but Friday night the urge got the better of me
So we call the local, trusty garlic Indian, and waited for it to arrive, 45 mins later, one steaming hot madras for me and a Korma for the wife. Then it all went horribly [...]

Nintendo DS WiFI

Monday, January 21st, 2008

My son got a copy of the Nintendo DS transformers game for XMAS, and decided to try out the WiFi features over the weekend.
I had heard the some WiFi routers and access point do not work well as the DS wireless if not fully WiFi compliant. They aren???t kidding, more like not RFC compliant in [...]

Wordpress on IIS7

Monday, January 14th, 2008

This make an intersting read
HOW TO: wordpress on IIS7 with some extras too
http://mvolo.com/blogs/serverside/archive/2007/08/12/IIS-Authentication-plugin-for-the-Wordpress-PHP-blogging-engine.aspx

Sky Plus

Monday, January 14th, 2008

Decided to upgrade my SKY in the dining room to SKY+, I had a old box which was not too reliable, but once it booted up it was OK, (some funny microcontroller fault, not any of the usual well documented faults)
First stumbling block, the wife, insists on nice face plates for all the cables, so [...]

FON Free WiFi

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Well after waiting 3 weeks by FON router (with optional 7dB antenna) finally arrived on Friday
Much to my surprise, it did the business straight out of the box
Plugged it in to my network and away it went (using the serial no for the private network WPA key)
Logged into the FON web site via the FON_AP [...]

DVD Catalog made Easy (Sort of)

Monday, January 7th, 2008

It is a condition of my house insurance that I have a catalog of ALL my DVDs. I used to use a package called DVD profiler from invelos. After some digging I found my old licence key, which was upgraded for free to the latest version, they do a mobile version too, which means I [...]

wordpress 2.3.2

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Just upgraded,?? to 2.3.2
Testing testing 123, my old granny smells of pee !

windows 2003 file Replication Services

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

Over the xmas break i thought i would review my data backup process, i have a few friends with kit at their house linked to mine via long range WiFi !, so File replication between server seemed like a good plan !
Got some big disks attached to each server using??USB 2, and setup replication, Sorted,
NAH, [...]


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