I thought I share some tips on creating a practical disaster recovery plan. Most people has a misconception that such plans are large complex and ultimately expensive. Well I am going to show you how you can have a practical…
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Go fly a kite!
I went kite flying during the weekend. First session was with my daugther’s Kite Flying Day’s kite. That did not fare very well. It kept insisting on flying the wrong way round. With the string on one shoulder, Any flight…
P1 registration
My son riding on his elder sister’s coat tail got a place in P1 in Phase 1. Every since the General Election in May, I always wanted to say that. 🙂 According to Ministy of Education (MOE) website, the vacancies…
SQL 2005 cluster upgrade.
The main SQL server is on a SQL 2005 cluster. It is time for an upgrade to SQL 2008. This will be an interim measure until the hardware refresh the later half of 2012. The main aim of the process is…
UCWeb problem with images
I have been using UCWeb 7.6 on my Nokia E71 for ages. The auto network switching is really great! Everything was working fine. Well too fine, since it works so well. About 2 weeks ago, it started showing black bands…
Sharing storage using iSCSI target
If you have lots of storage to spare, one way is to share it out via a file share. This is useful on a file server level. What about sharing spare disk space at the storage level? There are solutions available,…
Windows 2008 R2 server cannot login.
My SCCM server in the midst of deploying new clients when it started behaving strangely. Deployments started failing and progressively the server operations degraded and Windows Explorer stopped working. After a reboot, a domain user cannot login, all that is…
The difference between tracked and wheeled vehicle
I came across this links in Think Defence UK, a British website giving alternate views on defence. This video shows a demo at IDEX 2005 by a wheeled Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AFV) with 105mm gun, most probably a Centauro. It…
Ramblings is now 3.2 are you?
The Ramblings is now WordPress 3.2. The new Admin panel checks the version of your browser and gives you a warning. if it is too old. My FireFox 3.6 gives a yellow warning. Internet Explorer 6 users are suppose get…