I was in Sheffield over the weekend, I took this photo while I was at the Jury’s Inn Hotel. My view was over-looking towards the south-west side of the Moor, with Sheffield United’s Bramall Lane football stadium in view near the left, and the Moor is on the right hand side of the photo.
O2 broadband – cannot sent outbound emai
I was helping a friend who has recently installed O2 (UK) broadband at his premises. He was using Microsoft Outlook and the first thing he noticed was that – he was unable to send/relay emails via his own SMTP server setting, although his incoming emails were unaffected. My initial diagnostic on his PC, was to […]
Clock drift problem in VMServer’s guest
I have been scraching my head over a prolonged problem with VMWare’s free VMServer, where I have been using VMServer (version 1.4). I have guest OSes (Win2K3 and Linux) running and these guest OSes have been experiencing a drift in their system clocks. The symptom is that: when the host and guest OSes are booted and started, everything […]
My PC
My PC has been out of action for over a week – due to bad capacitors on the old montherboard. Apologies for not having any updates becasue of it. I’ve just replaced it with a new ASRock N68C-S motherboard. Based on nForce 630a chipset, It is very nice that it is AM2 and AM3 compatible, and […]
Nepalese Tandoori Restaurant – Shepherds
I got bored of watching the Masters (hint: g-o-l-f), so I went out at late night to a Napalese cuisine: Nepalese Tandoori Restaurant at 121 Uxbridge Road, Shepherds Bush in W12 and certainly I was not disappointed. I have been there a few years back, but a recent management change resulted in a vast improvement in deco and menu […]
Unlocking and upgrading the Huawei E5830...
I was looking to buy a 3G MiFi Modem and this great article [http://dailyvend.blogspot.com/2010/03/unlocking-and-upgrading-huawei-e5830.html] summarised the procedures to unlock and modify the firmware. Clear and precise! Thanks very much, James.