A miserable day across the UK as Storm Dennis hits, so what better way to spend it than tidying up our home network a little?
Hardware
A collection of 33 posts
How to Install RabbitMQ Server in Docker on a Synology NAS
A step-by-step guide explaining how to install RabbitMQ Server in Docker on a Synology NAS.
Friday Retrospective: My First Printer
Reminiscing about the first printer I ever owned.
Wacom Bamboo
Thoughts on my Wacom Bamboo Pen Graphics Tablets.
Data Loss 2008
So, last week I managed to lose eight years’ worth of contact and calendar data. Coming less than three months after posting a blog entry entitled “My Backup Strategy Works!”, this is a little bit embarrassing. I’ve been contacting
My Backup Strategy Works!
I seem to have been having a spell of bad luck with hard drives and data loss recently. Less than two months after my 80 Gb Freecom portable hard drive died (to be replaced by a 320Gb Freecom ToughDrive), my
A Keyboard Makes A Hell Of A Difference
It occurred to me recently that I'm not getting any younger, and that sitting hunched over a keyboard for a dozen hours a day will probably lead to some form of RSI sooner or later. So I started looking for
Portable Hard Drives
Oh dear. It looks like my trusty 80Gb Freecom FHD-2 Pro hard drive has bitten the dust, a day after I finally finished installing a VPC of Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 upon it (coincidence? I suspect not!