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Mar/13

SimCity Won’t Start

Filed Under Games at 13th March 2013 20:45 by

I’ve been playing SimCity 2013 on EA Origin system and the game consistently starts fine (besides the server issues). Today suddenly the game won’t even start. Launching it from Origin a dialog box appears saying Launching SimCity… but disappears and … Continue reading →

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Mar/13

Install Sun JDK On Ubuntu 12.04

Filed Under Java, Linux at 4th March 2013 0:01 by

Overview Ubuntu had removed the latest version of Java from the repository and uses the OpenJDK instead. Whilst this is fine for personal use but for development purposes the development should be done against the runtime environment which is usually … Continue reading →

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Feb/13

SATA And SATA 3 Speed Difference

Filed Under Hardware at 25th February 2013 0:01 by

A very quick test on a new SATA 3 labelled cable and a generic SATA labelled cable revealed interesting results. I used the same drive on the same SATA 3 port on the flawed Marvell powered X58 Intel chipset. The … Continue reading →

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Feb/13

IaaS Or VPS Part 2 – Setup And Install

Filed Under Infrastructure at 11th February 2013 0:01 by

Overview Part 1 described the reasoning and setup behind the comparison. In this post I will go through the implementation of AWS and the final comparison of IaaS Vs. VPS Setup EC2 Setting up an EC2 and RDS instance was … Continue reading →

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Feb/13

Performance Between Hard Drives

Filed Under Hardware at 4th February 2013 0:01 by

I was amazed by some very basic tests how 2 hard drives (Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB) of the same model can have such a difference in performance. The two drives I had were purchased at difference times but it … Continue reading →

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Jan/13

Removing Samsung Series 9 Recovery Partition

Filed Under Windows at 28th January 2013 0:01 by

There is potentially 24GB that can be freed for normal use. The recovery partition is protected so it cannot be deleted through Windows Disk Management. Before continuing make sure a disk backup is taken. It is advised to clone it … Continue reading →

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Jan/13

Install Hudson On Ubuntu 12.04

Filed Under Linux, Programming at 21st January 2013 0:01 by
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Add Hudson to the sources list: sudo sh -c “echo ‘deb http://hudson-ci.org/debian binary/’ > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hudson.list” Do an update to refresh the repository list: sudo apt-get update Install Hudson sudo apt-get install hudson By default the administration page is at http://localhost:8080. … Continue reading →

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Jan/13

Samsung Series 9 (Jun 2012) Mini Review

Filed Under Hardware, Review at 14th January 2013 0:01 by

Overview I was on the market for a new laptop with my aging 15″ Santa Rosa MacBook Pro (MBP). With Intel finally driving the Ultrabook to compete with the MacBook Air(MBA) I was sure my next computer would one. Limitations … Continue reading →