Sunday, August 17, 2008
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Last weekend took delivery of my Suzuki GSXR750 K7 it is very nice. Bit frightened have to be honest of it at first but after 2 bends I was smiling very big wide smiles its excellent.
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Unfortunately it broke down 2 days after getting it the regulator blew up on it but
Portman Motorcycles are fixing it. But until that time I didnt get above 3rd gear and was doing about just under a ton.
Tuesday, July 01, 2008
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Followed Eric Clapton last week on the roads around Ripley. He was in his porsche turbo and I was in my little white mini Cooper S, his porsche was going well.
:)
Monday, May 26, 2008
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Recently upgraded to vista and for the life of me couldnt get the vista to work with rsyncd running from cygwin. Would always stop with a code 12 error and not alot else. I just run rsyncd or rsync with the daemon option as I dont belive the cwrsync works as a service yet on vista.
Now in the backuppc config options for rsyncd and rsync there is a hard link option I just removed that and it seems to work not sure why vista cant deal with that option but if you remove it, everything works as it did before on windows 2000 / XP.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
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Well I sent back some drives in April 2007 and they say they never received them. Basically they were some old IDE drives that were just in warranty so I wasnt too bothered. Then this weekend May 2008 got an email saying they were sending me one of the drives repaired under warranty. The other they say they never received even though the drives were boxed together.
So let me get this right they took 13 months to repair and return one of the two drives I sent them, and lost the other. Must be a record !!!
Saturday, March 01, 2008
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Well just when I was thinking of moving my broadband thought I would have a look around and tried a site called broadband checker on www.broadbandchecker.com, only used that site and about a week later I got an email from my existing provider saying that I had been slammed. Basically there had been a manual cease put on the line from what seemed to be from Tiscali, now my existing provider eclipse internet said they couldnt do anything which really worried me. After contacting Tiscali they said that a 3rd party reseller had initiated it but wouldnt tell me who.
Talked to Ofcom and they said that there had been quite a lot of this happening lately. So after getting them invovled BT wholesale agreed not to cancel the line and luckily its back on now although it keeps training the line now.
It all seemed too much of a coincidence that this happened when I had tried out the broadband site so I would urge everyone use the site as it is a good one lots of info but what ever you do dont put your phone number for the search only use the postcoe option.
Hopefully moving to bonded adsl with
www.upstreaminter.net so will blog about my experience of that soon....
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
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Ok bought the Scythe Kama Connect 2 device from Quiet PC yesterday. Took delivery and at the same time as ordering it bought a Samsung 500GB SATA 3Gb/s hard drive to connect to it. The reason for buying this little baby is that I hate opening cases everytime I want to configure a new drive.
Before buying looked everywhere, did my research to see if any compatability issues with SATA and didnt appear to be so bought it. Open it all up out of the box, nice little device plug in the Kama Connect 2 and power up my PC which is a shuttle running VISTA ultimate 64bit. Straight away doesnt recognise the drive !!! Scour the manual and finally find above the SATA diagram
"This product supports the reading/writing for S-ATA and S-ATA II devices, but not supporting the optional functions such as NCQ or 3Gbps"
great, looked back on the Quiet PC site to see if they had any mention of this none says supports SATA !!!
Next day got onto Quiet PC (Paul Lee) who were very helpful, got one out of the box and it worked for them so what was I doing wrong. Borrowed another drive off my client and still couldnt read that. Then thought about it a bit more and noticed there was no light on the power supply brick then looked at the two pin plug and the converter. Thought about it for a minute what an idiot I had only plugged the plug into the earth socket ie. vertical rather than horizontally into the converter. Switched it round and all worked as it should. The disclaimer above about the 3Gb/s is just that it cant get to those speeds due to limitations on USB 2.0, I just thought it meant didnt support them full stop.
It really is a good little tool to have. I fully recommend it and because Quiet PC were so understanding and helpful (as usual) I even recommend that you buy it from them
http://www.quietpc.com/gb-en-gbp/products/components/kama-connect2