Just recently I’ve been having incredibly poor battery performance from my Galaxy S2. For the last few weeks I’ve attributed it to lots of data traffic, all of which was rolling up under the OS. It was only after spending … Continue reading
I’ve recently developed a pretty flexible, basic, WordPress Widget for showing a Ventrilo server status. It’s written in PHP, is Object Orientated and uses XML style sheets (XSLT) to allow for easy customisation of the look and feel. A while … Continue reading
I’m uncomfortable with several year’s worth of my email sitting only on Google’s servers, especially when they have lost data before. If anything every goes wrong, I want to be able to restore all my data or move providers. I … Continue reading
Backups seem to be the main theme I’m posting about at the moment and the next on my agenda was to get proper rotational backups implemented. “Proper” meaning incremental (only data being exchanged between client and server is that which … Continue reading
The Problem Last year I was participating in a Six Sigma project that was focused on requirement elicitation and risk reduction. One of the tools we were advised to run was a KJ (also known as an affinity diagram); a method of … Continue reading
When I first posted about how to sync an Android music library, I couldn’t find any decent rsync clients on the Android store. That’s all changed now that I stumbled across the rsync backup for Android app. I’ve now got … Continue reading
My most recent geeky purchase has been to cast away my now 2 year old IPhone 3GS for a spanking new Android-based Samsung Galaxy S2. So far, I’m very impressed! One particular pain point though in moving from an iTunes … Continue reading
This week I upgraded my Virgin connection from 20 -> 30 Mb, the extra speed boost is great but unfortunately, this meant that I had to have the new (no so) Superhub; a modem + router combination. This, quite frankly, … Continue reading
Ensuring that your important data is safe and secure is important in the modern age, yet most people that I know (even the tech savvy ones) don’t create backups. I have a few backup solutions at home to ensure that … Continue reading
This was a tool that I developed within my own time to support activities targeting some odd behaviour within our Production eMatrix environments. It’s basically a dashboard view of the production floor, combining various tools to make the following information … Continue reading