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Continue Reading Add comment Tuesday, 14 July 2009
Zzz… Zzz… Zzz…
I foolishly stayed up and watch Underworld 3. Big mistake, was just gone midnight before I jumped into bed. Few hours later Darcy wanted feeding, didn’t get much sleep.
Doesn’t help that my plan of eating a load of chocolate and getting a sugar rush to keep me going has back fired, I’m not full and v.sleepy…
Add comment Wednesday, 15 July 2009
novastor ftp
Just been testing NovaStor’s NovaBackup FTP feature. Seems to work alright, just backing up from work to my NAS at home. Interesting how they have Amazon cloud as an option.
Also found the option within the NovaBackup Pro that allows built-in MSSQL database backup!! Nice.
Add comment Wednesday, 15 July 2009
uptime
I’m rather impressed with WordPress.com uptime. I’ve got nothing special, just a free account with domain mapping. Although they do say they display ads its only when they need to, which they appear not to need, at least on my blog, still I don’t exactly get a lot of hits.
I’ve been checking the uptime with Hosttracer
Also Pingdom:
http://www.pingdom.com/reports/egtjnq1o7iwy/
You can ofcourse, pull the server details from Netcraft:
http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.matt40k.co.uk
I’ve been using Netcraft for a while, so you’ll be able to see my previous server details (back in the days of my dedi servers).
Add comment Tuesday, 14 July 2009
NovaStor
Rather impressed, I’ve only installed the basic pro version and it appears to backup MS-SQL without a hitch! I can’t quite understand it, I guess it must include the MS-SQL addin, I don’t have the open file option enabled either, I’ve had too many problems with the shadow copy service (vss.exe).
Just want to test the backup to FTP. Something to try in the morning.
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performance
Ok, so my dev laptops only got 1GB ram, but stills running like a dog since I’ve installed AVG 8.5 and NovaStor 10. Novastor doesn’t appear to be the problem. I’ve had a few other machines have issues since installing AVG 8.5, however I think that might be down to it being upgraded rather then reinstalled.
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new phone
My phone contract come to an end and I’ve been thinking about what phone I want to get, I was pretty much set on a Blackberry Curve but I’m not sure. The iphone would be really good, but what about the iphone S? It’s basically an extra £100 for “double the speed”, double the space, a better camera. I do wonder if it’s worth it. Do I really need the space? Still do I really need a phone? I’m not sure. I’ve been without a phone now for a few months and I’ve coped. I might just get a £20 PAYG phone and be done with it.
Add comment Tuesday, 14 July 2009
AVG 8.5 error
Just been trying to install AVG 8.5 on my dev laptop. Basically it was coming up with Side-by-Side configuration error, it turns out it’s because I have Visual C# 2008 Express installed. I just installed the C++ redistrution and it sorted it.
32bit (i386\x86):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9b2da534-3e03-4391-8a4d-074b9f2bc1bf&displaylang=en
64bit (AMD64\x64):
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=bd2a6171-e2d6-4230-b809-9a8d7548c1b6&displaylang=en
Dev laptop is (currently) Vista SP1 x64
Add comment Monday, 13 July 2009
right… bed
Ok Darcy’s just had his 3 am feed… must go to bed… just need to Google…
Add comment Sunday, 12 July 2009
hidden amongst the web
I truly believe Google is doing a good job at finding good content, it’s just a shame that bad SEO are making it hard. I mean how bad does a website look when the bottom is full of key words? I think the page should be good enough to print, also the sourcecode should look just as good. This coming from someone who has no real control over his own 
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