Monday morning started with us meeting several of our oversea’s friends. Anthony from Singapore, Micheal from Germany and Tim from America. And we had a TOI about SCSI given by James MacFarlane. Read the rest of this entry »
Dull and drizzly.
There have been lots of talk over the past couple of years, and now more than any time in that gap of applications on cloud.
Netbooks have been talked of:
Wikipedia:
“A netbook is a small to medium sized, light-weight, low-cost, energy-efficient laptop, generally optimized for internet based services such as web browsing and e-mailing.”
Which basically says to me, run a minimal system on your side and let the cloud do the rest. Read the rest of this entry »
Monday starts off quietly, with fewer tickets than I expected…I progressed a little with some gDoc code, you can now call up the GUI form the command line with some arguments and the app with automagically search for those words.
I have also been looking into live upgrading from Solaris 10 to Solaris 10 update 6. I think that I have finally understood how to create a new Boot Environment (BE). I am just waiting for the machine (an 880) to copy the current BE into a new one. I will upgrade the new BE while the system is still running. Then when I know that it is OK, I will simply restart the machine and it will boot into the upgraded environment… Read the rest of this entry »
At work, our department has it’s own SunRay servers. I am currently running on a V890 server running build 101a of Nevada and running the SRSS 4.1 (SunRay Server Software (I think)).
I was trying to switch tabs in Firefox, in Camino I can use command+alt+arrow to switch tabs, under Safari I can use command+shift+arrow. Under Firefox, I can use…Well, I’ve got no idea what I can use…So I set out to find a way!
I figured there was two ways about going about this. Either I use the trusty Google, to search the net for people who have the answer, or I press buttons until it works…I decided to press buttons.
The first couple of key combo’s did nothing…
Then I found that control+alt+arrow brought up a small workspace changer in the middle of the screen and allowed me to see the workspace name, an outline of all the windows in the workspace, and allowed to me switch between them with a press of a button.
After this, I tried using control+shift+alt+arrow, this did the same as before, except it didn’t bring up the graphic. Interestingly, it took the currently selected window, and moved that as I switched workspaces…Kinda handy I suppose…
How do we save our falling economy? Well, it would appear the answer has arisen in the popular BBC quiz show QI. On Friday 14th November 2008, QI did a Children in Need special.
The topic was on the Eaurovision song contest, and how countries such as France complain about us, yet use our language to sing their songs.
Ronni Ancona said (at somewhere around 19 minutes in), that we should tax other countries for using English.
What a ruddy good idea! Tax countries for using our language which we have shrived to create. Can you imagine how much America could owe us!
The penalty to other countries would be “sod off then and create your own language, or steal someone else’s”, it may also allow us to imprison the youth of today for fowl mouthing out language, and we could filter texts etc to stop the annoying use of ‘text talk’.
A jolly good idea I think
After spending most of Sunday cooking meals for the following two weeks, I came in to find that it was fairly quiet. I spent Monday looking at some disk drives, in meetings and looking at gDoc. I also looked at the ticket with the Neptune card. I now needed to put two systems back to back, I corresponded with the engineer to book another system. Read the rest of this entry »
Aled popped online the other day and told me about Quidco. It’s a system that somehow give you money back on purchases made online. It will pay you back over a period of months, taking £5 every year as a subscription charge…
I’m gonna give it a go, will report back with results…
Monday was spent traveling back from Aber, I arrived back in Camberley at just past midnight
Tuesday was spent getting some storage trays set up for an engineer. It just comprised of setting up two trays really, there was thought about getting me to hook the systems up, but the engineer decided to do the rest himself.
I spent a portion of the afternoon postbooking some systems in th 02 lab as they were appearing dead. I brought two of them back to life…One still needs my attention. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, it’s my second ‘one year’ celebration in a matter of days!
Today, I have been blogging for a year! I first posted with:
Leopard
Of course, this was back on blogger, I moved to WordPress shortly after.
My second celebration was mine and Faye’s one year 
