Ramblings
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Site Migration and an Odd Incident
Well, I’ve finally decided to move my site off of my DSL connection and on to a VPS. I’ll be running regular backups with a tool like rsync-backup to bring any changes back down to my internal systems. For now, mail still comes to my DSL, but the web side has been migrated out to…
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Hurrah for Belkin
Last year, I bought a Belkin bluetooth USB dongle for my Asterisk box (if my mobile is in range, I’m at home), and for the occasional use on my Windows PC for syncing contacts to the phone. It never worked right, and I attributed it to the Linux BT stack, the USB 1.1 port on…
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Ghost – say what?
I did a disk capacity check a few days ago, and found to my surprise that of my 320 GB RAID, only 60 GB was free. So, a pair of 500 GB drives have been ordered, and I’ll need to migrate my whole system from the 320 to the 500 array (and use the 320…
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Playing with the W810i
Been poking the W810i this evening, trying to get it to synchronise with my PC for things like calendar and contacts. Gave up on the official software quite quickly, as it seems to be utter pants, only supporting Outlook Express / Windows Address Book. Found a link to some software called MyPhoneExplorer, and it seems…
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Hard labour
Took last Friday off so I could get more work done on the house. Moved 1.5 tonnes of gravel with the help of a spade and wheelbarrow; sorted out the parking bay and all the gaping holes behind it. Got three quotes from estate agents, and had the place measured for carpeting. Did some touch-up…
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Wonders of BartPE and Ghost
I mentioned to a friend of mine, Matt, that I needed to somehow ghost my shiny new Windows installation from the SATA array to some other drive as a backup. I’m used to doing it with Symantec Ghost, but last did that when Ghost ran from a DOS diskette. Yeah, ages ago in other words. …