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Why you shouldn’t drop your MBP

When I was racing around between work and the Hospital, in the days just after Asher was born, I inadvertently dropped my MBP. In my haste to get into my car I bumped the bag, and the strap slid off my shoulder followed by a fairly solid thud.  Fortunately it was in it’s Crumpler ‘the Part [...]

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Dell in the Bin

DELL Monitor failure

My decision in what computer parts to buy has just been made a whole lot easier. Two weeks outside of Warranty Period my DELL 2407 monitor has had a catastrophic failure. On ringing DELL they manage to keep me on the phone for just over 1/2 an hour before telling me that it was no [...]

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Sites served from Home

After a couple of years of hosting my sites with various service providers I decided that I would try hosting them from my home server. One of the main factors is that it works out to be a fair amount cheaper, another was that I thought that it would a bit educational. I figured that [...]

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Making my RAID mirror visible to my network

I wasted hours trying to work out why my XBOX couldn’t see one of the network shares on my XP PC. I had pretty much given up and put it down to a dodgy driver or the like. Then my old man, who has a PC built just like mine (which I built), told me about [...]

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