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Saturday, October 1st, 2011Andysworld! new logo and identity on the internet
Tuesday, June 14th, 2011I was getting bored with the stock template image, and although I had changed it from the default blue to green, I’ve been wanting to change it for a while. As you may have noticed we have a new “clickable Logo “. If you click it, it will return to the homepage (root of the website).
Andysworld New Logo and Indentity
I’ve been testing VMware View 4.6 (Virtual Desktops using PCoIP) experimenting with Windows 7 64 bit Professional and Adobe Photoshop CS5 64 bit, using virtual desktop workstations. I wanted to test fully, so I spent a few hours testing Adobe Photoshop Cs5 (64 bit) and Corel Paint Shop Pro x3 to check what performance was like testing the in the Cloud! I think the performance was better than installing it on my standard PC.
As more web site traffic comes to Andysworld! than it did five years ago, I’ve decided it’s time for a facelift, so the logo is the start.
As you may have noticed I “borrowed” the theme for the logo, from a well known Search Engine, if it works for them! the random colours in the logo, reflect the choas in my life, from one day to the next!
“a day in the life’ – Andy
The June 2011 Challenge to Blog every-day! – Angus, finds a new cat basket!
Wednesday, June 1st, 2011Okay, severe lack of blogs recently, so this month I’m going to try the Blog every day challenge!
So as this is the 1st Day of Summer.
We wil kick off with a picture of Angus, that’s found a new cat basket!
Angus on HP LaserJet 2100N
It becomes a little difficult to retrieve print jobs!
What’s in your Man Bag?
Tuesday, February 9th, 2010After a few folk on-site recently have been laughing at my “hand bag”. I keep telling them it’s a man bag which I keep my notebook in and a few other things! I’m always complaining to Lindsey about not being able to find her keys in her many bags that she uses, it’s prompted me to take a photograph of the items in my man bag!
Contents of my man bag!
Contents Include:-
- Sony Vaio T1XP Mini Notebook and Sony Vaio Case.
- Sony Vaio T1XP charger and mains cable.
- Tom Tom GO 520 in hard case.
- SanDisk cruzer mini 1GB flash drives (2).
- SanDisk cruzer micro clear body 4GB flash drives (2).
- SanDisk cruzer micro 4GB flash drive (encrypted) (1).
- hp 4GB flash drive (encrypted).
- Corsair Survivor GT 64GB flash drive (encrypted) (including chain and dog tag!).
- 3 3G MF627 USB Modem with 4GB micro SD card inserted. (encrypted).
- Cisco Aironet 350 AIR-LMC350 (patched 200mW) PCMCIA card.
- Cisco Aironet 802.11a/b/g PCMCIA Wireless Adaptor.
- Linksys Dual-Band Wireless 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g WPC55AG PCMCIA card.
- Orinoco 802.11b PCMCIA GOLD Card.
- Senoa special PCMCIA card!
- N-type to Wireless LAN card pigtails, various types (3).
- Canon Ixus IS 850 Digital Camera including case.
- Flash card case including compact flash, SD, Micro SD, Mini SD, Memory Stick, Memory Pro cards.
- HP Smart Start CD ROMs and ESXi flash modules.
- Carrying case full of technical CD ROMs.
I’ll not complain the next time Lindsey has difficulty finding her keys!
That’s alot of tech!
Wireless (WiFi) Remote Control of X10 Modules using USB Remote Access
Sunday, December 20th, 2009- The Active Home Pro software is installed on/in a virtual Windows XP Professional computer, I don’t like cluttering up my main production Workstation which happens to be Vista 64-bit Ultimate.
- The CM15PRO Programmable Computer Interface is connected by USB to this computer. The Active Home Pro software is the software that drives the computer interface, I’ve saved the “house file” house.ahx on my NAS (network attached storage) device, so it can be easily shared on my network.
- This is the clever Tech bit, USB over Network by Fabula Tech, I’ve been using this software in the virtual work I do for a few years, and it allows you to share a USB device over your network, e.g. you can plug in you USB device on one computer, and connect to it on another via your network. Very handy… USB remote access!
- The USB over Network by Fabula Tech is installed on the computer connected to the CM15PRO Programmable Computer Interface. We will call this the server.
USB over network
The above snapshot, shows the USB over Network server software running, and the current USB devices attached to the server, which can then be shared, just like any resource, disk, printer etc.
USB over network device shared waiting for connection
The device is shared, and is waiting for a client computer to connect to it.
USB device properties
You can give the devices meaningful friendly names, that you’ll remember. On the client computer (remote computer), install another copy of Active Home Pro, making sure the drivers are installed for the CM15Pro. Run the USB over Network client software.
USB over Network client setup
Select USB Device, Add, browser for the computer or enter IP address. You should see, a list of devices that can be connected to.
Client connecting...
Right click the device, and click connect, if this is the first time you’ve connected to the device, you’ll get the usual, bing-bong tones, and plug N play will start and register the drives.
Now you can use your ActiveHome Pro software on another wireless (WiFi) computer, just open the *.AHX home file, from a shared location.
Client Connected to device
Happy Halloween from andysworld!
Saturday, October 31st, 2009
All change!
Monday, May 25th, 2009
- Two 48 inch replacement tanks for the fish house
I’ve not blogged anything about the fish house in a while, because nothing really exciting has happend, and I didn’t think you be interested in feeding the fish, or bi-weekly partial water changes. To conserve electricity, I shut down six small fish tanks in December 2008 (18inch x 10inch x 10inch, and smaller), they were used as quarantine, and for smaller fish, but more recently I’d increased the fish house, by six tanks, so these weren’t really used a great deal. These four fish tanks, were the first four that started the fish house in 2004. Time for a change.
I’ve had three four foot fish tanks in storage since the fish house move of July 2006. One four foot tank would replace these four nicely!
I’ve cleaned, soak tested it for leaks, and painted the sides white with some spare matt emulsion. It’s not the tidest of fish tanks, but it holds water, ideal for the fish house.
- Before – fish tanks that will be replaced
These are the four dirty fish tanks in the fish hosue that will be replaced by one single 48x15x12 fish tank. I just noticed that one of the tanks, has a successfuly breeding colony of snails. Most of the time, I’m trying to get rid of these with Clown andCandy loaches, and have successfully removed all snails from the fish house. I’ll keep these in another small tank, so I can rear them for live food for the loaches. (I’ll regret it later, I’m sure).
- After – removed! Fish tanks removed.
wires, and new polysterene required, and a bit of tidy up required before I site the replacement fish tank. That’s another day.
Windows 7 Release Candidate
Thursday, May 7th, 2009Well here is its, Windows 7 Release Candidate, the final version of Windows 7 which may be released in August 2009.
Windows 7 x64 edition
I’ve just taken some time out to download the 3GB download, and install this 64-bit Release Candidate to have a look.
I’m still a fan of Windows 2000 Professional, although a bit old these days, and have resisted the temptation to move/upgrade to Vista, apart from on my gaming rig because I needed DirectX 10 for the games.
Windows 7 x64 Edition Scene Theme
Quite a few other colourful themes as well. For oldies like me that like the “classic theme”, the Windows Classic Theme is still present! After 10 minutes of fiddling, here’s my desktop!
Windows 7 x64 Classic Theme
Would I upgrade, not at present. But Nice picture of a Male Siamese Fighter though!
Sunday afternoon Goldfinches
Sunday, April 26th, 2009I’ve just quickly dashed out into the garden in my slippers, with camera and zoom lens, balanced on the rotten wooden fence and got off a few shots…
Sunday Goldfinches!
The problem with the Goldfinches, they always show, when I’m not in the garden! I’m hoping to get much better shots, but I cannot play at present, because I’ve been given my orders to wash-up and tidy the kitchen! But I’ve got a few gadgets to try and get better shots!
Our House imported posts from legacy blog
Thursday, April 16th, 2009I’ve now imported all the posts from the old Our House blog. I’ve still got to convert the posts with photos and internet links in before they get published here. I think I’ve decided to take the plunge, and no longer update the old legacy blogs, and new posts will appear on this new blog, in the various categories, sections or topics. It will make things easier for posting, and make easier reading. To keep the timeline correct, they’ve all been tagged as category house, but I’ve also tagged them in other relevant categories. So over the coming weeks, you’ll see more of the older posts appearing, once they’ve been duly converted (provided WordPress and the hosting holds out!)
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