Andysworld! Advent Calendar – Dec 1 – New Wellington Boots

December 1st, 2011

Twenty-four days until Christmas 2011, so lets treat you to a blog a day! the Andysworld! Advent Calendar! (just without the chocolates!).

My Wellingtons Boots or Wellies for many years, have been in a very sorry state,  they’ve split and leak!

So with my Birthday money from Family and Friends (Thank You!), I’ve purchased a new pair of Hunter wellies – Hunter Argyll Short Knee Wellington Boots.

I did not purchase from Hunter, but a local business in Yorkshire TotallyWellies.Co.Uk.

Old and New Wellington Boots

Old and New Wellington Boots

I had to get the Short Knee version, because as Lindsey, said “you’ve got fat little legs” – I just look like “Compo”  now!

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Fish House Thermometer

November 19th, 2011

I’ve been doing some fixing, the computer which controls, a few things in the fish house has been repaired. So I am able to remotely monitor Fish House Air temperatures, and also exterior temperatures again. Although the external temperature probe needs re-calibrating again!

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Update: 20 Nov 11 Probe B re-calibrated – it should be reading correct now.

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Rank No.100 @ExpertsExchange

November 17th, 2011

about this time last year, I was Ranked around 115,000th!

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New HD Video: How to create a Windows Server 2003 virtual floppy boot disk using VMware vSphere 5.0

November 16th, 2011

I do not have any floppy disks anymore, and as I’ve blogged many times, I don’t do the physical! Some System/Server Administrators seem to have forgotten the art of How to create a Windows Server 2003 boot disk, very useful to have if you’ve managed to corrupt the master boot record and cannot boot your OS, it’s not a big deal if you have a virtual server, you can create a virtual floppy to boot in minutes and recover your server, and service is restored, and why not leave the virtual floppy disk connected, it’s not causing any issues!

This step by step video How to create a Windows Server 2003 virtual floppy boot disk, demonstrates how to create a virtual floppy, format, copy the required files, and boot your server.

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(flash is required, sorry iPad users!).

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This weeks UK Lottery Numbers?

November 16th, 2011

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The new @ExpertsExchange is coming in 2012. Check it out and get a free shirt. #EEv10

November 8th, 2011


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The Devil’s Arrows

November 2nd, 2011

For almost two years, I drove past these every week, but never had the chance until now, to get up close and personal with these pre-historic monoliths called the Devils Arrows!

Away from the office and computer yesterday to get some fresh air, and pass the time whilst the car was in for a MOT and service, (okay I did have my iPad and 3G wired into the Net!), I thought I would go for a wonder in the turnip field to visit these giant monoliths, considering the night before was Halloween, I did not notice any cult activity!

I think I’ve also sprained my left ankle, too much walking yesterday, some would say that’s because your too fat!, or just sit on your bum at a desk all day! (I thought I would get that in…..)

Anyway here are the photos….

Devils Arrows
Devils Arrows
Pre-historic monolith
Pre-historic monolith
Pre-historic monolith
Pre-historic monolith
Pre-historic monolith
Pre-historic monolith
Pre-historic monolith
Pre-historic monolith

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Happy Halloween!

October 31st, 2011

Happy Halloween folks, and in usual Andysworld! tradition, Carved pumpkins this year!

Carved Pumpkins for Oct 31 2011

Carved Pumpkins for Oct 31 2011

I’m in the middle of stripping the Fish House door!

Carved Pumpkins for Oct 31 2011

Carved Pumpkins for Oct 31 2011

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Happy Screme Egg Day!

October 31st, 2011
Cadbury Screme Egg wrapper!

Cadbury Screme Egg wrapper!

Andy ate it!

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween Folks, Carved your Pumpkins or Jack-O-Laterns yet!

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New HD Video Bare Metal Recovery of Microsoft Small Business Server 2011: Part 2 How to Restore Microsoft Small Business Server 2011

October 30th, 2011

Okay, so we have a Full Backup of Microsoft Small Business Server 2011, approx 20GB on our Western Digital Worldbook NAS (\\nas\backup).

(see this blog – New HD Video Bare Metal Recovery of Microsoft Small Business Server 2011: Part 1 How to Backup Microsoft Small Business Server 2011)

The next bit could not have been easier, we insert the Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 DVD into the DVD ROM drive, Boot from the DVD as if we are going to install a copy of Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 on the server, you are already probably familiar with this step, but we Click the ‘Repair your Computer‘. This procedure WILL only work, if restoring to “like for like” hardware as the original server backup. Follow the Wizard, selecting the network location of the backup.

In this video, I’m restoring to a VMware vSphere Virtual Machine. Initially to prove, that I’m restoring to Bare Metal Server, (no OS is pre-installed), I’ve booted the virtual machine with NO Microsoft Small Business Server 2011 DVD ROM Media in the DVD ROM drive, and you can see it tries to PXE Boot from the Network, at the next reboot, I’ve inserted the media, to boot and start the Server Bare Metal Restore from the Network copy.

DO NOT TRY THIS PROCEDURE ON A PRODUCTION LIVE SERVER!

YOU WILL ERASE AND DESTROY IT!

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Wait for the Restore and Server to Restart.

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