Many moons ago I bought a MK809 II Android TV stick. This is a popular RK3066 device that one can flash G8’s Picuntu image, and run Ubuntu server on it. It was bleeding edge stuff where you could install an armhf version of Ubuntu 12.04 onto the stick. It makes an ideal “stick server” […]
WordPress Compression – reduce bandwidth
Like most websites, this site relies on a large amount of images, videos, CSS styles and HTML files. On a monthly average, this site you are reading has approximately 1100 visitors, serving 5000+ pages and the data transferred is between 6GB – 8GB. The figure is on the increase and is approaching my hosting’s transfer […]
HP ProLiant DL380 G7 and Windows Server ...
A couple of weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be on site to play with a HP ProLiant DL380 G7 rack server. The server was souped up with 2 x Xeon processors (giving total of 16 cores!) 64GB ECC RAM 8 x 142GB SAS Hard disk, running Raid 50 4 x 1Gb NIC iLO3 remote control The reason […]
Sage Line 50 ODBC driver – Manual instal
NOTE [26 OCT 2010]: The following article will teach you how to extract a Sage ODBC driver from a PC with Sage installed, and then install the extracted driver onto another PC without using the installation CD. For Windows 7 users: I have been receiving many hits on this article from people searching for “Windows […]
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 […]