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Monday, September 30th, 2013
Old Photo Archive – Sony Glasstron Glasses
Thursday, September 19th, 2013After receiving an email from a friend, asking for a larger resolution photograph of him from the 1991!
I thought I would go back through the back catalog of unpublished photographs
Sony Glasstron Glasses
Sony Glasstron Glasses
These pictures were taken in 1999, these are Sony Glasstron Glasses, which projects a large cinema screen in front of the viewers eyes, I used them to watch DVDs on my portable DVD player, whilst community to clients site on the train. On two separate occasions whilst sitting in First Class on the train to Edinburgh, watching a DVD, a GNER Ticket Inspector interrupted me, and asked “which stop are you departing the train, so I can help you, Sir” – he thought I was blind!
cloudHQ – Backup and sync data between Cloud Storage providers
Thursday, September 12th, 2013Do you find yourself with half a dozen cloud storage providers?
I’ve currently got storage accounts with
- Dropbox, Wuala, Box, Google Drive, Microsoft Skydrive and Evernote
I needed to get some files onto my Microsoft Surface RT tablet yesterday, unfortunately there seems to be an issue with Dropbox with the Surface RT and syncing to the cloud, the Surface RT uses Skydrive.
But how do I get my data from Dropbox to Skydrive?
Use cloudHQ, this cloud based application will continuously sync all your files between different cloud services: in real-time
It took me five minutes to complete the easy drag and drop configuration to sync files and data between Dropbox and Microsoft Skydrive!
You can also Backup all your emails from Gmail to Dropbox!
Brilliant use of the Cloud, Excellent Product, I also like the ability to browse current cloud storage vendors using the cloudHQ website!
Virtualisation Snapshot Hell!
Monday, September 9th, 2013Whatever you call them in VMware circles, they are known as “Snapshots”, in Microsoft circles, Hyper-V they are known as “Checkpoints”.
Snapshots are evil things, I wrote an Article last year on Experts Exchange called – HOW TO: VMware Snapshots :- Be Patient,
the following two clients, clearly had not read my article, but they have now!
VMware vSphere Exchange Virtual Machine with two snapshots, one snapshot size of 250GB, with a parent disk of 500GB. Exchange performance would have been poor, this snapshot has been present for many months, and eventually took 33 hours to delete, ,merge and commit the snapshot, with 33 hours of Exchange downtime!
Microsoft Hyper-V Virtual Machine, with 9 nested snapshots, totally 170GB, more of an issue, performance is poor, and deleting these snapshots will cause issues, and delay!
The one thing you need to know about Snapshots, is if you use them, or find a virtual machine using one is Be Patient, if you decide to delete them!!!
It can take a very long time, for the process to complete and merge the child (delta) disk into the parent disk.
Pure Gold – All jarred up!
Monday, September 2nd, 2013Honey is now all jarred up into 12oz hexagonal jars, waiting for the labels to be printed, and then ready for sale!
So if you want to purchase any rural rustic cottage wild flower honey from the Yorkshire Wolds, let me know…
Pure Gold
Wednesday, August 28th, 2013Pure Gold – and I’m not referring to the song Gold by Spandau Ballet. I’m referring to my honey.
from a swarm of bees which arrived in June, into one of my hives, I’ve successfully taken off 15kg of honey, which is now filtered, waiting for jarring and labeling.
Here is a quick video of the extracted honey leaving the extractor and being filtered, via coarse and fine mesh filters.
Just some thanks, to Vickie and Andrew (or Andrew and Vickie) for the loan of the extractor, and advice!
Why not visit Vickie’s Website – Wordweaver Stories, and not forgetting Paul @ JLB Electronics.
“The man. The crown jewel of EE. An immovable pillar of patience.” @ExpertsExchange
Monday, August 19th, 2013
An article written about me, which has been posted on the Experts Exchange Company Blog, it starts…
“The man. The crown jewel of EE. An immovable pillar of patience. These are just a few of the names that Experts Exchange community members have bestowed upon Andrew Hancock (known on the site as hanccocka). While Andrew joined …..
You can read the full article here – EE’s Top Expert Pens Series of VMware for Beginners Articles
It’s been a while – Script for a Jester’s Tear
Friday, August 9th, 2013
it’s been many years, since I listened to this album…..
..and it still sounds good
Broadband Change! Draytek Vigor 2600G versus BT Home Hub 3
Thursday, August 8th, 2013As I was passing the “Save the Children” charity shop in Pocklington, at the weekend, I spyed a BT Home Hub 3, Mint, Sealed, New in Box, in he front window, for £5!
Always, after a bargain, I snapped it up for a fiver! If you didn’t know BT Home Hubs supplied by BT are “locked” to their Broadband network, you cannot change the username, but a few minutes later, I had an unlocked version, and can use it to connect to my ISP – Eclipse Internet.
I’m interested to see, if replacing my aging, Draytek Vigor 2600G router, would I get a better connection speed, and download speed! Here are the test results
Draytek Vigor 2600G test results
BT Home Hub 3 test results
So it does not look like my aging Draytek versus BT Home Hub 3, is the cause of my slowness! and looking at these non scientific tests, the Draytek appears to be faster!
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