Went on BP’s British Cormorant the other week down at Coryton it was excellent. The Captain was very nice and let us look all over the ship.
Details are here
It has a 1km turning circle, massive. It was only 2/3rds loaded that is about 700,000 barrels of oil at todays prices thats about 44 million dollars worth of oil.
Took this really nice picture of Scruffy today while at lunch.
He looks so contented now its the summer, out in the garden. And him teasing ‘Mia the doggy’ and then having a scratch on the tree.
Took delivery of my new machine yesterday. Rather swiss, this is my first Mac, they tell me once you taste Mac you never go back !!
First thing I needed to do was to get it on my encrypted wireless network ugh oh !! Couldnt for the life of me get it on, I use a manual 128 bit key and have my passphrase in key 4, did a bit of reading and realised that the Mac only reads passphrases from KEY 1 so had to move my phrase into that on my existing wireless access points and yes it all works…
Other problem I had was that I couldnt get the Mac to see my shares on the windows 2003 domain controller. It could connect via ip address and share name but the file finder couldnt browse the list of shares. Tried for ages to get it going and at last seem to have cracked it. Basically having read a lot of articles on the subject on the web I realised that in my local policy I had the network client talk securely (if server agrees) disabled as some articles say so made that enabled and just disabled the always talk securely and enabled send smb passwords unencrypted and this appears to have fixed it although I not entirely too confident about that. But its all working now 🙂 the linux, windows and mac boxes can all talk together and share files no probs. Can even pass files to my mac laptop which is just great.
Today is May the 27th and I think the summer has finally arrived here as its about 28 degrees outside, poor Scruffy was seeking some shelter under the table and chairs in the garden it was so hot.
Recently try to upgrade the server and firmware on my MP101 and came across the following..
Now I run the server software on a windows 2003 server on a VIA 1.2ghz machine, now its the only windows machine that is on all the time but for some reason I couldnt get the firmware to upgrade to the latest version on the client MP101 machine, when I have done before.
Yes yes I know the server software isnt supported on 2003 server but it did work last time, with 4 calls to support in India somewhere and various answers to why I couldnt upgrade I did realise that it was the 2003 server element of it so installed the latest server on my windows 2000 box and upgraded to the latest firmware 1.3.7 without any hassles.
Plus just for the record you dont have to upgrade to all the intermediate upgrades, I upgraded from 2.11 to 1.3.7 contrary to what Netgear’s support say !!!
My next problem was that on upgrading to the latest server software they have removed the control on the system tab to bind the NIC to the server software and I run two network cards and hence two networks on my server. The MP101 couldnt find the server with the software it connected to the network ok and was pingable but just couldnt find the software server with the music on, rang Netgear support again and was told that it now finds the application server automatically itself, even if it has two network cards – well I would like to say it doesnt !!.
After much playing if you have the network that the MP101 is on showing in the network connections first ie on the left in the row of NIC’s you have on your machine it will work, although when the MP101 tries to connect on mine it shows two of the same server, but if I have the MP101’s network as the second NIC ie on the right in the network connections it wont find it at all unless I disable the other network card.
After slagging the Netgear support previously I do actually think the software has now been improved as it was pretty poor before although they are still lacking the server software to be installed as a service so you dont have to have the pc logged in if you are running a home network like I do.
My mate Rick Marden sent me some pictures of the snow at his place, all the snow here has gone but clearly parts of the UK are still suffering.
Was snowing heavily last night and the result can be seen below. Now its still snowing here which means that the UK will be in turmoil as a little bit of snow makes it impossible to get around as us Brits are never prepared. I have dug out (no pun intended) an old photo of the snow from about 3 – 4 years ago so we can see if we are getting more snow or less.
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The other day I caught my cat Scruffy watching TV with his mates and they were so engrossed with the television that I was able to snap a photo of them.
theres mousey, hampster and fishy all sitting with Scruffy.
My old chum finally made it down to the Farrow residence to visit, first time in nearly 6 years of being here in our current property.
He immediately got on with Scruffy and both posed for a photo, although as you can see, Chris was a little distracted, he was busy hacking one of the neighbour’s wireless networks with his Psion 5 (has he still got that thing – time warp or what !!).
(taken with SPV C500)