Dell Laptops, Summer 2013
Checking out another Dell for a friend. I want a laptop and docking bay. If a Dell, it needs to be a Latitude, they’re the only machines they ship with the old fashioned docking bay interface. We don’t...
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New Home IT
So with the expiry of Windows XP, I need to move my desktop systems on. I found with help from friends the following links. For Office, maybe one of these, Intel® NUC, spec and to buy from amazon, I’d...
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Raspberry Pi
I bought a Raspberry Pi to act as a Media Server in the home. I bought a PI, case, SD card and power source. As ever here are my notes. Currently, getting started (or 1st boot), 1st customisations, and...
View ArticleISO 27001
On ISO 27001, much of my work now requires an understanding of this standard, the gold plated standard for IT security, well I say gold plated, more accurately reasonable endeavours. I believe that it...
View ArticleBT Home Hub
BT are the largest provider of broadband lines in the UK. They provide a hub/router as part of the package. This is was my bliki page detailing my use and knowledge about the hub, we’re talking V2....
View ArticleHitachi Travelstar disk,
Dan’s Dell Inspiron has a Hitachi Travelstar disk. Given that the computer won’t boot, it’s a bit tricky to recover the data. I have inserted an Ubuntu Live CD into the CD player, and it still won’t...
View ArticleBuilding a W7 laptop
Introduction Building a new laptop is always a fraught exercise and in this case I am upgrading from Windows Vista to Windows 7 Professional. I am also upgrading from a Dell Latitude to HP Probook...
View ArticleVirtual Box
This page has been live for a long time. Sun Microsystems bought Innotek the authors of Virtual Box, an opensource virtualisation product in 2008. It permits Windows/Linux/Solaris guests on the same...
View ArticleW7 and Sleep with an HP Probook
As shipped the HP Probook can take too long to wake from “Sleep”. I found this post on MS Technet and have applied the advice to the WIFI adaptor. I found it using this google query. I have tested it...
View ArticleWindows Virtual Desktop
Here are some ideas for a windows virtual desktop Finestra nspaces virtuaWin Dexpot (£) Not sure about the others
View ArticleNew RSS/XML tools
AS the big boy’s look to enclose our content, the architecture I articulated in Are Blogs losing their influence has been broken, badly. I originally used Friendfeed & mingle as my aggregators but...
View ArticleHome IT spring cleaning
I need to do some spring cleaning on my laptop. Here are my notes Hyper V on-windows quick-start – create virtual machine Is this better than virtual box, for w10 on w10? I am currently running four...
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