Experts Exchange featured an Expert Spotlight on me, you can read it here Expert Spotlight: Andy Hancock
Expert Spotlight - Andy Hancock
Expert Spotlight: Andy Hancock
November 5th, 2014Happy Halloween 2014!
October 31st, 2014Happy Halloween 2014! Don’t forget to put those pumpkins out to keep the evil spirits at bay!
This years pumpkins…
Last of this seasons honey jarrred! This is creamed or set honey!
October 26th, 2014I’ve been away from the bees, they’ve now all been fed, and now wrapped up for the winter. We will see what happens this winter. A few chores left to do, before the frosts, mouse guards to go on hives, external insulation on some of the hives, and finally this year treatment, nearer Christmas Day, a trickle of oxalic acid, to knock down the remainder of varroa mites.
The final honey from this Spring harvest has now been creamed and jarred, to create a creamed or soft set honey.
New jars and corkscrew bit for creaming honey
Jarring the Honey
Jarring the honey, each jar is at least 340 grams
final jars waiting to set (yes, that's a hive outside the window!)
All complete and jarred!
So, if you are in the “honey club”, there could be a jar, in the mail to you shortly!
New Eaton 12kVA UPS Arrives for the Datacenter!
October 13th, 2014
Eaton UPS Delivery
Comments, received, what have you ordered now!!!
It’s been in the plan and design for many months, and today the new Eaton 12kVA UPS arrived for the Datacenter, 10 days early, and un-announced!
This will replace ALL our ageing APC UPS, which have battery failures, and difficult to manage when you have eight independent UPS!
This new Eaton 12kVA UPS, can be configured as 12kVA or 2 x 6kVA in parallel, it will be configured in our datacenter as 2 x 6kVA in parallel.
It weighs in at approx 288kg, and is approx 15u or 90 inches high, it’s 2 UPS, with 2 external battery packs, and a Eaton PowerEasy Module. [I’ll upload so more pictures when it’s racked and hared wired!]
This will provide power, when we have brownouts, for approx 45 minutes for all the VMware vSphere Hosts, Storage Area Networks (NetApp and Equallogic), and Storage Area Network switches, it also has a feature called “Load Shedding” where we can specify Critical Virtual Machines, e.g. Microsoft Active Directory Domain Controllers and Microsoft Sharepoint Servers, and in the event of a power outage, will shutdown all non-essential virtual machines and hosts, to extend runtime, during the power outage.
“[19:01:12] Melly from Experts Exchange commented : you seem super stoked!!”
Andy sits on the Eaton UPS!
super stoked!! – is that Surf Dude speak for too much Red Bull!
nVidia GPU Testing Time – Titan Z versus GTX 980 versus Tesla K40c – £15,000 in GPUs!
October 9th, 2014I’m in a very fortunate position to have a number of top spec nVidia GPU (graphic cards) for testing at my disposal. 2 x nVidia Tesla K40c, 3 x nVidia GeForce GTX Titan Z, and 3 x nVidia GeForce GTX 980.
Two nVidia GeForce GTX Titan Z
Two nVidia GeForce GTX Titan Z in test bench
GeForce® GTX™ TITAN Z is a gaming monster, the fastest card nVidia ever built to power the most extreme PC gaming rigs on the planet. Stacked with 5760 cores and 12 GB of memory, this dual GPU gives you the power to drive even the most insane multi-monitor displays and 4K hyper PC machines. A dual-GPU Kepler GK110 GPU. Retail price is approx £2,000.
nVidia GeForce GTX Titan Z and GeForce GTX 980
The GeForce GTX 980 is the world’s most advanced GPU. Powered by next-generation NVIDIA® Maxwell™ architecture, it delivers incredible performance, unmatched power efficiency, and cutting-edge features. Stacked with 2048 Cores and 4GB of memory. Retail price is approx £500.
nVidia Tesla K40c
Dual nVidia Tesla K40c in SLI
Tesla K40 GPU Accelerators, you can run big scientific models on its 12GB of GPU accelerator memory, capable of processing 2x larger datasets and ideal for big data analytics. It also outperforms CPUs by up to 10x with its GPU Boost feature, converting power headroom into user-controlled performance boost. It has a Kepler GK110B at it’s heart, and 2880 cores, and 12GB o memory. Retail price is approx £4,000.
Welcome to Cabinet World! – Andy stalks more cabs!
September 21st, 2014On my travels, I’ve been stalking more BT Openreach “Cabs”, that have been upgraded or added to facilitate “Superfast Broadband” in the East Riding of Yorkshire, Pocklington area.
This is the largest FTTC cab I've found!
Another large FTTC cabinet, outside Co-op, in fact this cabinet obstructs your view, when pulling out of the Co-op car park!
Different older style PPC cab
Recently, these stickers have been stuck on the cabs! Note the ventilation slits to cool the switch gear inside!
Now the next photo is very interesting….(well I think so…), this is Cabinet 1, and it’s NOT been upgraded as yet, I thought all the cabinets in Pocklington, had been upgraded except Cabinet 10. Cabinet 1 is located on the main high street in Pocklington (Main Street!), which supports ALL the shops, so they’ll not be on Superfast Broadband yet!
Cabinet 1 on Main Street, Pocklington
and this is Cabinet 10
Cabinet 10 on "The Mile"
Cabinet 10 on "The Mile", plenty of space for a new FTTC cab!
and the importance of Cabinet 10, is it’s My Cab! Well not my personal cab, but where my fixed telephone line terminates!
So there is plenty of space near Cab 10 for a new FTTC cab, and I understand that Cab 1 and Cab 10 are still being evaluated, for upgrade, so there is maybe still hope!
It’s possible, that as quite of lot of work may be required for Cab1 (it’s on a busy high street), and my new Cab needs to planned, because it’s near residents garden….
Lets keep fingers crossed!
Superfast broadband is coming maybe – Andy stalks Cabinets!
September 15th, 2014In the lasts couple of weeks, driving on the way to work, I’ve noticed these new “green daleks” appearing on the street..
older BT "PCP" distribution cabinets
near the older BT “PCP” distribution cabinets
New FTTC Cabinet
recent BT manhole cover
these are in fact the new style FTCC cabinets (fibre to the cabinet/premises), they have ventilation holes, because the new cabinets, just do not contain patch panels, but also electronic network switching gear, so they’ll run warm!
These are for Superfast Broadband, or BT Infinity. These cabinets are just off the A1079, at Bolton Lane, there are also many in Pocklington, that have been recently installed….
I’ve been stalking my cabinet, which has a cable run of 3.7km from my house, to the nearest junction box, and as yet no new FTCC cabinets has appeared, most of the others in Pocklington have now been completed!
I now fear, I could be in the 10% of Rural people, that are excluded from the Governments project to equip 90% of the country with Superfast Broadband!
3D Printing A Mobius Bangle using an Ultimaker 2
September 4th, 2014I’ve managed to get access to the 3D Printer…. what fun can I have, and what can I print…
The Ultimaker 2 3D Printer
3D Printing
3D Printing
Andysworld! Secret Apiary
August 31st, 2014hey, another Bee related post, board with Bees yet! A very busy weekend, with the bees….and I’m very tired!
"wild" comb made from pure beeswax
A week has past since, I’ve moved all the hives to their new secret apiary location, from my two apiaries, they have been now united down from ten to six colonies (hives). All the honey has now been removed and extracted, and the wet supers have been give back to the bees, to help them top their winter stores. (the super/shallow is the smaller box on the bottom of the brood box on top!).
Andysworld! Secret Apiary
The third hive from the right, was a small cast swarm from the University of Hull, which I transferred from a nucleus (6 frame box) to a national hive yesterday (11 frames), and I’ve started to feed for winter.
Today, I treated with MAQS, to minimize the Varroa destructor mite, and ensure the colony is at it’s strongest going into the winter, as part of my integrated pest management (IPM). The Varroa destructor mite, arrived in the UK in 1992, so since then we’ve had to treat against Varroa destructor mite.
So, I’ve got a week off, before I go back to the bees, and start feeding, so time to clean up, inventory the equipment, and start putting back in the “bee shed”.
(although need to check on small colony this week, to check they are taking feed down!)
if you look carefully, you may notice, honey leaking all over the floor, so I had to stop filming….to mop up!
Special Designed Silver Modulo! – Delay on Accessories ? Will these ever appear ? Kickstarter Failure ? @idapt @kickstarter
August 28th, 2014This is the specially designed Silver Modulo!
Limited Edition Silver Modulo
Limited Edition Silver Modulo
Unfortunately, it looks like the Wireless Charger, Crank Module, Dual Cable and Solar Charging module will be delayed….due to sourcing issues.
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