Safe VPS hosting, how much?
June 28th, 2009 by michael
What would you pay for VPS hosting with regular offsite backup and a concrete SLA?
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Drop all tables in MySQL from ANT
June 27th, 2009 by michael
Title says it all. I have googled myself to death and not found a concrete answer to this one. There are two answers.
Where are the aliens
June 26th, 2009 by michael
If as I suspect, life is the rule rather than the exception, the galaxy should already be teaming with intelligent civilisations. So it does beg the question, where are the aliens?
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VPS down twice, ADSL wins
June 26th, 2009 by michael
Since cancelling the co-location service, I have tried two VPS providers, and in each case within a month they suffered hardware failures.
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Missing icons in XP
June 19th, 2009 by michael
Here’s a common one. Install some new software, e.g. IE 8 in my case, and the icon is blank.
To fix this we need to rebuild the icon cache. Luckily there is a way to do this without installing any new software. Read the rest of this entry »
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Windows 7 repartition
June 13th, 2009 by michael
An update to my Windows 7 adventure. It’s great!!!.. A vast improvement over the blue screen haze that is Vista. But if you go the route of repartition and installing as a second OS, be aware, there are pitfalls.
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