Alarm Clock Bug in iOS 4.1

Posted on November 1, 2010 by Ben Lavery

This week I am working the early shift at work.  I must be in Machynlleth by 5am meaning that I’ve got to get up at 3:30am and leave by 4:30am.  However, today when my 3:30 alarm went off, it was actually 4:30…

This bug has already been seen in Australia and revolves around moving out of, or into, Summer Time.  Strangely, one off alarms seem to be OK, it’s those recurring alarms – you know, the ones you might set to repeat every weekday to get you up for work – that will trigger this bug.

Here’s some screen shots, I set this alarm at about 4:50 this morning and wanted it to go off every weekday at 5am, needless to say it went off at 6am: Continue reading →

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Mac OS 10.7

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Ben Lavery

Once again, late to the blogsphere as usual.

Yesterday Apple announced it’s plans for the next iteration of OS X – 10.7 “Lion”.
Lion will concentrate  on bringing technologies “back to the Mac”, indeed this phrase was the tagline to the event on Wednesday. Continue reading →

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iPhone Games

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Ben Lavery

Even back on my iPod Touch I liked playing games, and now with my faster, more responsive iPhone I love playing games.  I thought I might share a few of my favourites.  So here we go, in no particular order (other than in the rough order I last played them). Continue reading →

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Blogging on MY iPhone!

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Ben Lavery

Last Friday I recieved my iPhone 4. I have to say I’m impressed with the speed of the thing, much more responsive than my old first generation iPod touch.

I’m loving the freedom of mobile Internet too, though I’ve not had a huge Chavez chance to make the most of it here in mid-Wales…

With this new phone also come iOS 4 which I couldn’t get on my iPod touch, mult-tasking isn’t something I’ve needed to do just yet, but I’m sure I’ll appreciate it at some point.

Apart from mobile Internet, multi-tasking, and better response, it’s all fairly similar to my old iPod.

Blogged from my new iPhone ;)

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Acquiring an iPhone 4

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Ben Lavery

Last Saturday I called Tesco to try and order a 16GB iPhone 4 but they were out of stock :(

Yesterday they rang me back saying they had some in stock, I leaped at the chance of getting one and ordered it straight away.
As mentioned above, I’ve gone for the 16GB version – My first generation iPod Touch in 16GB and I’m not using all of that space yet…

I paid £230 for it which I think is an excellent price considering I paid £200 for my second hand iPod Touch!

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Another disk upgrade to beleg-ia

Posted on September 6, 2010 by Ben Lavery

I’ve just ordered three Western Digital 2TB drives, my plan is to use ZFS’s RAID-Z to glue them together, I figure I’ll get around 4TB worth of space doing this.  Currently I have mirrored storage which is good, but I’m effectively wasting 1TB of my current 2TB.

The disks will be arriving on Saturday, I’m working Saturday evening so I’ll either install them Sunday or sometime next week.  I’ll post back here to post my method of RAIDing them…

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Blogging on an iPad

Posted on August 15, 2010 by Ben Lavery

I’m currently in the Cardiff Apple store playing on an iPad and I’ve got to say it’s pretty good!
The keyboard is much better than I thought it would be, plus you get all the benefits of the auto-correcting spelling. Actually, I’m really impressed that the keyboard keeps up with normal typing speeds!

The device is nice and responsive which makes the whole experience really great, it’s much better than my little first generation iPod touch.

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Goodbye OpenSolaris

Posted on August 14, 2010 by Ben Lavery

Well, it looks like Oracle has pulled OpenSolaris.  Hopefully the Illumos project will continue and make some sort of replacement for the loss.

Over the past week or so I’ve been thinking about jumping to FreeBSD, the project has ZFS which is my main requirement for a home fileserver.  I’ll wait a little longer to see what Illumos is going to do, then see if the jump should be done.

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New job!

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Ben Lavery

After a while of searching, I’ve finally found a job!

I now work for a company called Eldin in the Welsh town of Machynlleth.
My job is to switch on and off the new ERTMS system that is being installed on the Cambrian line.

After a few days on the job I can say that I’m really enjoying it and I hope that when my contract ends in December I’ll get to stay on for some more!

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New gallery script and new home for it.

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Ben Lavery

After a hectic week I have finally finished the translations.

The script now lives here, while the blog concerned with it lives here.

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