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Having had my new PC up and running for a month now I recently treated myself to an 8GB RAM upgrade to bring me the the insane amount of 12 GB total. I did this with a plan in mind. The plan was to use some of the RAM as a RAM disk for use [...]

Having been employed now for almost a full three months I finally have for the the first time in almost four years some disposable income. On the cards for some time was getting myself a new PC as my main PC was starting to get a little old. After all it is 5 years of [...]

Now that things have finally settled down I can finally get around to getting a lot of the things I had planned for my summer holidays done. First up was to try to aggregate all my online presences from Twitter, Flickr Last.FM etc. I was considering using FriendFeed but since I’ve recently been extolling the [...]

I’ve just had 7 IP addresses from Verizon crawl through almost every page on my domain. That is blog.sweetnam.eu, tech.sweetnam.eu, www.sweetnam.eu and sweetnam.eu. A total of 5368 requests, in 3 hours! Odd things is that none of the IPs in question were typical crawlers as each IP requested an entire page at a time. Given [...]

Over the weekend I was in conversation via e-mail with The Other Fellow. Over the course of our correspondence I mentioned my setup here at home. Later on that evening I began to realise just how ludicrous my setup has become. I have four different networks, three wireless access points, and an unearthly amount of [...]

I think I have finally had enough of the festive cheer. Combined with the fact I still have almost three weeks holidays left I think I have gone a bit mad. I was clearing out my computer room and came across an old PC that served me well in the past. It was a faithful [...]

In the normal run of things I rank Adobe Flash as one of the most hateful creations in the history of the planet, universe or whatever. Strangely my next most hateful creation is Adobe Acrobat Reader. Coincidence? Mind you, every now and then something comes along to remind you that maybe Adobe Flash is not [...]

As I will be off to college on Monday I won’t have anywhere near a fraction of the time that I used to for messing about with all my various servers here. I figured it would make a lot more sense to consolidate my various sites onto the one machine if at all possible. So [...]