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VMWare-tastic

Posted on September 25, 2009 by David Smith

So I finally managed to spend some time over the last few days on sorting out the 7 VMWare servers we have in the London (Main) office and more specifically get a free server available so that I could retire … Continue reading →

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Working it out.

Posted on January 23, 2009 by David Smith

(had this sitting in drafts since before Christmas, thought it might be time to share it) So I have a shiny new MBP to play with, accidental order to be honest, but a useful one at that, I’ve gone through … Continue reading →

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Theme

Posted on December 15, 2008 by David Smith

Found the theme I had just moved to under drupal, just need to update it to support widgets (and from taking a quick look at the code a whole load of other changes – which I’ll never get around to … Continue reading →

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New BMS, new server, new danger

Posted on December 15, 2008 by David Smith

Well I went for it, and to make it work I’ve changed the DB server, the web server, the BMS and then done an import of all of the old posts and comments, I’ve a few pages left to build, … Continue reading →

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Blogging

Posted on December 15, 2008 by David Smith

So a recent post over on Johns Adventures got me thinking, especially after the “upgrade” of Drupal I did at the weekend didn’t go as smoothly as planned (mainly due to user error, but that’s not the point). Continue reading →

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Site trashed (*updated*)

Posted on December 13, 2008 by David Smith

Amazing, I’d never be so slapdash with a client site, and yet here I am with my site, updated, but missing the modules I was running on it, and the theme I’d hacked together… …and no backup *twat* Update – … Continue reading →

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Using Linux gets you a detention

Posted on December 11, 2008 by David Smith

A teacher in the UK has demonstrated just how switched on the education establishment is to the uses of Linux and how much it is used around the world:

“This is a world where Windows runs on virtually every computer and putting on a carnival show for an operating system is not Continue reading →

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Being social

Posted on December 10, 2008 by David Smith

So these days I’ve gone social, not as in going out and meeting people and that sort of thing, just in registering for a few “social” sites and then a couple of content aggregation sites I seem to have developed a circle of sites I keep up to date with little random comments, pics and tweets.

I can be found lurking here of course, but also at the following

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    Auto-Scaling

    Posted on December 8, 2008 by

    Came across an interesting comment piece on why auto-scaling in cloud computing is bad, if you are looking at cloud computing as a silver bullet or bored of the current marketing buzz surrounding the “cloud” it’s worth a read. Continue reading →

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    Changing the game

    Posted on December 4, 2008 by

    So I’ve been a user of an iPhone for a couple of weeks, one of the justifications of switching from T-Mobile was that I had no reception which on a company mobile when you provide a level of IT support isn’t great, and prior to T-Mobile I was on Vodafone again with a faraday cage effect almost as soon as I stepped in the door…. Continue reading →

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