HP Microserver N40L bargain & the 16GB RAM confusion
zulfikar The last few months the HP Microserver offering, the N40L, has been hitting sales highs due to a £100 cashback offer from HP. This effectively made the whole unit available…
Online all the time, in all places a reality? Nope!
So, I’ve taken the plunge and pre-ordered a Google Nexus 7 – the new 7inch tablet from Google, made by hardware manufacturer Asus. You can find a detailed review here,…
File Migration – robocopy
Ahhh. The simplest of tools. Yet it works beautifully. A quick guide on using robocopy for large data migrations from NTFS where retaining the NTFS ACLs is important (oh and…
PlateSpin Migrate 8 and P2V of Cluster
Using PlateSpin version 8 to P2V a Active/Active Cluster? If your looking at virtualizing your infrastructure P2V of standalone systems is straightforward, usually a good idea to defrag drives prior…
Social Media – Work Life Confusion?
Take it with a pinch of salt, or two. Social media does have a place in the workplace, but in my opinion just a teeny tiny one. Let me elaborate,…
2008R2 SP1 and rdbss.sys crashing/bsod
Having problems with a new physical build of a Terminal Server box? You certainly don't expect Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 to have lockup or BSOD issues so when it…
Microsoft Products (non-mainstream)
There are a number of Microsoft Products that provide plenty of value add but most people have never heard of them or do not know what they are useful for.…
RIP www.dimdim.com
What can i say? For once I am genuinely surprised and taken aback by a news story. DimDim has been one of my favourite websites for a few years...why? because…
ML115 the first generation
The HP ML115, i'm talking about the 1st generation model here and NOT the newer G5. It is clear that this system has some serious BIOS issues, although it claims to…
Broadband speeds
Thought I'd post my broadband speed up here, we were talking about it briefly on the show last night where we kinda joked about the 'upto' speeds as compared to…
64 bit or not…
A lot of ppeople have been asking m about 64 bit recently. Most are confused by it. Just wanted to point you to a cool tool called securable.exe, download it…
Technically it IS fiction!!!
Hello and welcome to my blog on all things techical, and ermmm fictional too! It's 2010, the environment is in crisis, the world in turmoil with water and energy and war…