Jeep Monkey

Finally bought a NAS, ended up going with the  Synology DS210J, a two bay NAS with alot of great functions Picked it up off Ebay for $300 delivered. Will see how this one goes with plans to get a 4 bay version a bit latter on. So far so good! I’ve been able to turn [...]

Recently when setting up some Reporting to be controlled by ControlM/EM I experienced an issue using the IBM supplied trigger.sh script. It worked perfectly well when using a single word Namespace, but once we tried against a two word Namespace it failed. All documentation that I found on the web and in the supplied manuals [...]

Western Digital 640 HD My Book Home Edition (USB/eSATA/Firewire 400) for backups $145 from JB Hifi – Dunno if it’s just me but SLOW SLOW SLOW, which in the grand scheme of things speed really isn’t that important as I bought it for data backup. I haven’t tried the eSATA, but the Firewire didn’t really [...]

To help cool down my MBP as well as get it to a good height next to my 30” ACD I decided to bang together a stand from some spare retic parts I had laying around the shed. I figured that by getting some air between the MBP and the desktop, it should take some [...]

After my DELL dramas I bit the bullet and bought a 30” Apple Cinema Display. Love the screen real-estate, don’t love the expense! With the government Small business 50% deduction I couldn’t help myself. I did hesitate several times though, deciding whether to get the ACD or maybe push my luck a bit further with [...]