Blog By Farrow…
I saw a couple of weeks ago that Orange are now doing the new SPV C500 Microsoft Smart Phone as a free upgrade, so thought I would take advantage of that when my plan was up for renewal. Initial thoughts on the new phone is that it is lightweight and bulk free compared to the other phone and it seems not… Continue reading SPV C500 replaces my old SPV E200 on an Orange Tariff
A friend of mine just recommended using Skype which is a voice over IP product. Had a go and I must say it works very well, I have used other products which are similar and run across the internet and are very choppy but this has fantastic quality. Plus they have hooked up with telecommunications companies to provide access to… Continue reading Voice Over IP
As you may be aware the original Fedora Core 2 installation will just keep rebooting on an Epia Mini-ITX machine. There are many newsgroups articles about this subject but I believe that they are all a little confusing so here is what I had to do to install Fedora Core 2 on to my Epia Mini-ITX CL600 machine. First download… Continue reading Fedora Core 2 installation patch for Epia Mini-ITX
Decided to sell my trusty aluminium Lian Li case on EBAY… Full spec can be found here. And pictures here. [ Apologies Pictures now gone due to sale ]
Ok put my five Coolermaster Cool Drive 3 enclosures on ebay as they are now cluttering the bedroom. If your interested in buying these or any other bits I have in the gallery under “bits for sale” please drop me a line. Not sure how these will go as they again are a specialised item. Selling at a good price… Continue reading Coolermaster Cool Drive 3 : FORSALE
Ok I run qmail here and funny thing was outlook wasnt logging into it. Thought I had been hacked or something. To see what the problem was I telnetted into my qmail box using telnet mail.farrowcomputing.com 110 port 110 is the port designated to pop3, then put in your username user “username” then password pass “password” and on my system… Continue reading POP3: unable to scan $HOME/Maildir?
If you were getting permission denied while mounting a w2k3 share onto a linux box then here is a suggestion to get around that • On the Win2K3 server select Domain Controller Security Policy from the Administrative Tools menu
Trying to have a clear out of a lot of my computer equipment here. The pictures can be seen in the gallery and the prices and items on EBAY here http://cgi6.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewSellersOtherItems&userid=paul_farrow&completed=0&sort=3&since=-1 If you fancy any of the bits and you want to know more please contact me
Any tips guys for printing on glossy brochure paper using the HP Deskjet 5850??? I have been tasked by the wife to print a message on the back of a glossy brochure and wasnt having a lot of luck. Basically the best quality was to set to print on brochure matt finish (although it was gloss) and to use maximum… Continue reading Printing on Glossy Paper using a HP Deskjet 5850
Apologies to all my customers, the sites are now back on. We have replaced the firewall as the original one appeared to have an intermittant problem on the network controller.