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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. Unfortunately it broke down 2 days after getting it, the regulator went on it but Portman Motorcycles are fixing it. But until that time… Continue reading Got my Suzuki GSXR750 K7
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. Although I did have him on the roundabout under the A3 at Ripley, but lost it again on the slip road. At that point I thought I was going… Continue reading Race with Eric Clapton in his Porsche Turbo
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… Continue reading Getting Rsyncd, Vista and Backuppc to work
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… Continue reading Returns / Warranty From Seagate
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.co.uk, 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… Continue reading Broadband Slamming – www.broadbandchecker.co.uk
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… Continue reading Scythe Kama Connect 2
Ok thought I would have a look at DBDesigner4 as MyWorkbench seems to be taking a long time to get into beta. DBDesigner4 looks a great product but couldnt get it to connect to mysql 5 then realised that it the designer was designed for version 3 mysql and lots of the old mysql products need to read the myql.user… Continue reading DBDesigner4, Windows and MYSQL 5
Since upgrading to Vista have had a few problems syncing my Palm Treo 750v with the mobile center. Read lots of places that upgrading to Mobile Center 6.1 helped well I dont think thats really the problem, the problem seems to be that the (or at least mine) Treo seems to have a mind of its own and gets stuck… Continue reading Vista, Palm Treo 750v and Windows Mobile Center 6.1
Since upgrading from xp windows media center to vista home premium I have been unable to get Napster to work using its media center plugin the one that allows you to download and listen to music through the media center with the tv remote. The normal napster application works fine but not the plugin. It was provided free with windows… Continue reading Napster Media Center Plugin on Vista
Vista, A Microsoft Wireless Mouse And Intellipoint Ok since I installed Vista Ultimate about 2 months ago my microsoft wireless optical mouse 2 and keyboard has behaved strangely. I run dual screens and when clicking from one screen to the other it would sometimes have to be a four or five times double click before it recongised that I wanted… Continue reading Trouble with that Pesky Mouse