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Posted by Chris in November 4th 2009  

...Just busy. Must blog more and facebook less

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server carbon offset

Posted by Chris in March 3rd 2009  

My carbon offsetting your server blog post has been getting a lot of search traffic.  I’d like to know peoples experiences of offsetting hardware resources so please take a minute to leave a comment.

My colo box will be going virtual pretty soon so I will oficially unplug it with any luck. My ipv6 transfer didn’t [...]

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Happy 1234567890!

Posted by Chris in February 13th 2009  

So 1234554321 has passed and so too has 1234567890, I raised a glass to both & hope you geeks did too.

Kudos to Chris Rowe for http://coolepochcountdown.com/ the music and fireworks did make me chuckle!

Aside from Mattress shopping and ipv6 migration for the rent-a-rack I’m sure St Valentine will suck-up plenty of my time today.

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Photosynth Fail, still looks neat though.

Posted by Chris in August 21st 2008  

How easy is it to parse this string ?
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en…

Mac ?
Still looks like fun though (thanks to cnet), the point mapping functions could be be great for virtual viewing of houses Etc.:

Now turning the point map and images into vectors and textures could make it a near instant hit in [...]

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Ping.fm the personal social radio

Posted by Chris in August 19th 2008  

I’ve been a twitter fan for a few months but with friends on such a variety of social sites it’s been a challenge to keep some form of status on the disparate services. Ping.fm has found and filled that niche by pinging a huge number of social networks and blogs too all at once, radio [...]

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Green Karma – Carbon offset your colo box

Posted by Chris in August 6th 2008  

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Roughly speaking your typical geeks colo box uses roughly about 1Amp at 230volts – (1 cpu 1 disk 2Gb ram and a PSU thats a few years old) Thats about 2 tons of gold standard carbon offsetting you need to do to earn your self some Green Karma.

Geeks all have “their box” [...]

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Tags: carbon offset, colo, data center, geek-box, green, plant a tree, save the planet, server
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My Ringtone, Asteroid by Pete Moore

Posted by Chris in July 25th 2008  

Pete Moore originally recorded “Asteroid”, the Pearl and Deane theme in the 70’s and it’s been my ringtone for about 5 years. It’s short and lively and no other bugger has it

Having the Blackberry ring like a classic 2 bell phone was just not right so I went on the rampage to find [...]

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O2 underhand move

Posted by Chris in July 17th 2008  

O2 are no longer stocking the Blackberry 8320 and now only stock the 8310. The difference? The former saves your bill by having wifi. Why don’t O2 want you using wifi? Oh gee I wonder.

Living in a village with municipal wifi won’t be saving my 3G traffic bill if we upgrade directly with O2 [...]

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Firefox 3 – Is it really quicker?

Posted by Chris in July 5th 2008  

One of the most popular things about firefox 3 is that the plugins provide so much useful extended functionality. This has got to be heavily responsible for it’s phenomenal success.

I was reading firefox_answers on twitter earlier and it’s like a broken record. Plugins are to blame for everything apparently, yet there is no way of [...]

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Ubuntu update improves network performance

Posted by Chris in June 24th 2008  

I’ve got a box that runs a bunch of smoke pings 24×7 and I have to admit I look at it about once a week. However guilt got the better of me and I decided it was about time to upgrade Ubuntu from a recently up to date v6.06 LTS to v8.04 LTS and I [...]

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