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Nov/10

User And Registration Changes

Filed Under Website at 20th November 2010 9:31 by

I have enabled Captcha to help stem the number of bot registrations. I have never been a fan of Captcha technology but with lack of alternatives there was little choice in implementing it. Another change to this site is the … Continue reading →

18

Nov/10

Error: You Are Using A High Performance Setting

Filed Under Blog at 18th November 2010 19:12 by

I ran the Windows 7 “Power Efficiency Diagnostics Report” tool to see what can be done to reduce power consumption but it reports that using the performance power setting as an Error? Surely it should be a warning or not … Continue reading →

16

Nov/10

WordPress Twitter Tools Shows Blank Page On Connect

Filed Under Linux at 16th November 2010 5:57 by

Overview I use the Twitter Tools plugin on WordPress to tweet my blog posts as well as showing my Tweets in my side bar. The recent change to oAuth and disabling basic authentication by Twitter has made the process slightly … Continue reading →

09

Nov/10

Computer Has Died

Filed Under Blog at 9th November 2010 10:57 by
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Unfortunately my computer has died on me so my blog posts may become less frequent till it is fixed / sorted.

05

Nov/10

Ubuntu LVM2 – Smart Storage

Filed Under Linux at 5th November 2010 0:32 by

Overview There are plenty of exceptions where hardware and software abstractions are used to create modular and flexible designs in a modern OS. Examples can be seen from Microsoft’s .Net Framework to Virtualization. Logical Volume Management or LVM is no … Continue reading →

02

Nov/10

Compact Folders In Thunderbird To Save Disk Space

Filed Under Software at 2nd November 2010 0:12 by

Overview I have been using Dropbox to sync my mail across multiple computers (I’m old school using POP protocol) which has been working great. Recently I received an email from Dropbox saying I was running out of space on my … Continue reading →

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Oct/10

Onkyo TX-SR508 Mini Review

Filed Under Hardware, Music at 26th October 2010 0:13 by

Overview I wanted a separated surround sound set up because it modularises the “home cinema system” rather than going with a Blu Ray / DVD cinema system where the speakers are tied to the player which has a built in … Continue reading →

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Oct/10

Cloning HDD In VirtualBox

Filed Under Virtualization at 16th October 2010 10:42 by

A common use of Virtual Machines is to test and run stuff till they are trashed. The magic is that each VM can be brought back up in no time with combination of save points (A.K.A Snapshots in VirtualBox) or … Continue reading →