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Saturday, 29 May 2010
Thursday, 1 April 2010
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
Were has the year gone?
Well so much to do so little time to do it, it should be my motto for life LoL!
Well Windows7 just how Vista should of been, far better memory managment, simple (as you want to make it and runs just as well on the same tin as my XP box runs.
If your moning about memory requirements, the go by a MAC then you will have somthing to moan about, spend a poxy £20 for a Gb of memory and get a life.
Thats my moan over, I'll post some info soon of the Windows 7 trial that I'm running on 2 laptops (nc4400 and 2510p) and 2 desktops (Scrap bin special 1.8Ghz 1Gb Ram and another with 2.2Ghz and 2Gb Ram)
Well Windows7 just how Vista should of been, far better memory managment, simple (as you want to make it and runs just as well on the same tin as my XP box runs.
If your moning about memory requirements, the go by a MAC then you will have somthing to moan about, spend a poxy £20 for a Gb of memory and get a life.
Thats my moan over, I'll post some info soon of the Windows 7 trial that I'm running on 2 laptops (nc4400 and 2510p) and 2 desktops (Scrap bin special 1.8Ghz 1Gb Ram and another with 2.2Ghz and 2Gb Ram)
Wednesday, 26 November 2008
Top Tip #1
Save The Enviroment - simple Idea but how about running a scheduled task to run every day to simply switch your computer off at night?
Shutdown -f -s
Its that simple, just give it a try!
Ref: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Windows_Networking/Q_21588213.html
Shutdown -f -s
Its that simple, just give it a try!
Ref: http://www.experts-exchange.com/Networking/Windows_Networking/Q_21588213.html
April to Novermber Update
Hmm? Long time no see, I know your supposed to update blogs regularly but hay I'm human and life has sure been busy.
Microsoft's One Care goes free the middle of next year, and its my suspicion that its time'd to be launched just before Windows 7's release, which I expect to be in October \ November time, although Microsoft will have you believe its not going to be released till 2011, I think it more of a case of managing of expectations than reality.
The timing of Windows 7 might mirror that of Windows XP and unlike the total mess-up of release \ marketing of Vista was done in late February opposed to XP when it was released in time to coincide with Xmas.
Microsoft's One Care goes free the middle of next year, and its my suspicion that its time'd to be launched just before Windows 7's release, which I expect to be in October \ November time, although Microsoft will have you believe its not going to be released till 2011, I think it more of a case of managing of expectations than reality.
The timing of Windows 7 might mirror that of Windows XP and unlike the total mess-up of release \ marketing of Vista was done in late February opposed to XP when it was released in time to coincide with Xmas.
Sunday, 20 April 2008
VSS - Volume Shadow Service (Thoughts behind using an external hard drive as a Volume Shadow Copy repository)
With cost of server storage although relatively low, its surrounding hardware and its support is still at a premium.
The problem becomes more of an issue when you start to think of an expanding data storage surface, and having a similar storage space for VSS to maintain a large enough volume for the amount of time you need before your full backup has taken place to tape or other removable media.
If like me you take full backups once a week to tape then you only need to take snapshots three times a day of all the relevant changes to store on the VSS drive, a rough guide to the amount of space you would need are as follows.
(Total data) * (days * number of times in a day) /3 = lots of slack!
So you ether by another fibre attached storage NAS costing $$$ or just stick a usb external hard drive on it for the sole purpose of the VSS service, granted its not pretty but if it gets the job done for a few hunderd bucks.
The problem becomes more of an issue when you start to think of an expanding data storage surface, and having a similar storage space for VSS to maintain a large enough volume for the amount of time you need before your full backup has taken place to tape or other removable media.
If like me you take full backups once a week to tape then you only need to take snapshots three times a day of all the relevant changes to store on the VSS drive, a rough guide to the amount of space you would need are as follows.
(Total data) * (days * number of times in a day) /3 = lots of slack!
So you ether by another fibre attached storage NAS costing $$$ or just stick a usb external hard drive on it for the sole purpose of the VSS service, granted its not pretty but if it gets the job done for a few hunderd bucks.
Saturday, 12 April 2008
Better the devil you know.
After a month working out and learning about Linux (Ubuntu) installing, configuring, customising and networking. I'm now finally at the point that I can thankfully state that I've fairly evaluated the relay funky OS and although it does have its very, very good points.
1. Free
2. Passionate support groups.
3. Image (g33ky and cool)
4. Constantly evolving and maturing.
It does have its bad points....
1. Its free (ain't nothing in life that's free)
2. Too many variations of Linux.
3. If you want the paid for versions, no better that M$ price wise.
4. Enterprise manageability***
*** Enterprise manageability?
1. Push out 10 pc's in 1 hour, with Office, their apps (customised) and corporate branding.
2. Prevent users from installing rubbish \ non supported \ licenced software.
3. Teaching Power users how to modify email or security groups.
But hay! that's not to say I would not use it for home, it just is not ready for the Enterprise right now (my view!)
I know Red Hat would say x, y and z to answer all of these points, but is all just catch up, users need GUI's its that simple and admins need basic gui's for simple tasks for managing users and command line stuff for the more techie stuff.
I could replace the word "Red Hat"or "Ubuntu" with M$ but it just don't wash.
No doubt I'll have tons of emails and \ or flames, as I have said before its My View.
1. Free
2. Passionate support groups.
3. Image (g33ky and cool)
4. Constantly evolving and maturing.
It does have its bad points....
1. Its free (ain't nothing in life that's free)
2. Too many variations of Linux.
3. If you want the paid for versions, no better that M$ price wise.
4. Enterprise manageability***
*** Enterprise manageability?
1. Push out 10 pc's in 1 hour, with Office, their apps (customised) and corporate branding.
2. Prevent users from installing rubbish \ non supported \ licenced software.
3. Teaching Power users how to modify email or security groups.
But hay! that's not to say I would not use it for home, it just is not ready for the Enterprise right now (my view!)
I know Red Hat would say x, y and z to answer all of these points, but is all just catch up, users need GUI's its that simple and admins need basic gui's for simple tasks for managing users and command line stuff for the more techie stuff.
I could replace the word "Red Hat"or "Ubuntu" with M$ but it just don't wash.
No doubt I'll have tons of emails and \ or flames, as I have said before its My View.
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