Incase you were wondering why the posts had slowed down we are at that time again, exams!
I am now three weeks away from sitting my highers, I think I am OK but as always you need to try and cram in as much studing as possable which is pretty boring but should be worth it in the end. 
Will try and keep posting regular but as usual cannot promise much until the exams have passed. 
Incase you were wondering the subjects are as followed:
Modern Studies
English
Computing Studies
Practical Craft Skills
Business Management
As you may or may not know I have already had trouble with an Apple keyboard where it always acted like a key was stuck in, I took it back to the Apple store and they tested it in the shop with their genius bar MacBook Pro’s and it proved the fault. I then was told it was a problem that they had never seen again and issued a replacement.
Well guess what, a few months down the line and the replacement has started doing the same thing, my keyboard is now inserting number one’s all over the place. I unplugged it for a while and re-connected it and now the number one just refuses to work, at least the annoying charactor inputting has stopped. I look after my keyboards so it is not due to abuse, I am beginning to wonder wither this is a more common problem than Apple says it is and if not perhaps my Mac Mini has a fault that is killing all my keyboards.
Either way I will have to take another trip up to the Apple store which will be fun as the online support dosn’t think wired keyboards exist and only offer options for the wireless keyboard, I have tried this section and entered my serial number for repair but as expected it didn’t work.
Now to go and hunt out that receipt… 
As the title suggest I have purchased a new digital camera, not just any digital camera but the superb Canon EOS 400D. I have only owned it for a day and already I love it, the flexibility of it and the sheer quality of the images make it a great buy at £394. Plus Jamie got his discount, can’t thank him enough for this. Plus Canon themselves are doing a £50 cash-back so quite a bit off the RRP. 
In the future I hope to add a few more lenses to my collection but the 18-55MM that comes with it does for most things. Check out my Flickr for a photos I have taken so far, mostly of random things just testing out the camera abilities.
As I have had the Sony Ericsson K810i for nearly 7 months now I decided to treat myself to a new phone, I got the W580i in limited edition black, this is a great looking phone and does everything I want nicely. It’s a great size and much smaller than my old model. Some actual photos are available on my Flickr (they were taken with the new Canon EOS 400D) so be sure to check them out using the links on the side of my blog! 
I don’t really know what happened the services are listed below in the top commands, I also ran some other stuff to give you a background on the server. I restarted the Samba daemons and the load fell instantly. Wasn’t actually doing anything that involved networking at the time so bit weird.
Least I managed to fix it without having to reboot and ruin my massive uptime.
Would like to know if anyone else has had this problem? 
By the way, it’s not the server that the website is hosted on, it’s a home server that is not accessible from the outside world.
Well after playing about with firmware versions both below and above this it seems 1.1.4 is best just now, the 2.0 BETA is too buggy for everyday use and doesn’t offer much features over 1.1.4. I have installed all my applications and music etc on 1.1.4 and things are running great.
Here is a screen-shot showing all my applications.
After many months of off-line time the torrent website Demonoid is finally back online with new administrators. Hopefully it stays online longer this time as I find it to be a good source for certain torrents that so far have to be found else where.
Let’s hope it rebuilds and the great torrent site it once was!
Yes, that is a special picture I created for this post.
I have just finished re-writing WordPress or so it seems over at Jamie’s blog. It was a right pain, moving him from his old host to my reseller was the easy bit.I upgraded his blog and the back-end database to 2.5 and it loaded fine but his theme was missing the header.
This worked fine on my test server so was causes by something in the database. After many, many attempts including reinstalls and phpMyAdmin sessions we finally got it all working so head over here and check out his new 2.5′d blog with the cool but very difficult skin.
I own a lot of domains both belonging to me and to other people as I used to own a hosting company, this is coming back in the near future so watch out for that. As the news readers say, more on that story later. I can leak one bit of information to you, it will be within the next two months and all previous customers will get a discount.
Any way, all my domains and most of the customers ones run out next month, so looks like I will be shelling out a bit of cash renewing these. Client’s interested in continuing their domain registrations please contact me. I have sent emails to the WHOIS address but lots of them simply ping back.
Also small outage has been sorted due to some server hardware issues, if you are still experiencing issues please let me know.
After some wait I have finally acquired the genuine Apple developers release of the new 2.0 firmware. I have installed this on my 16GB iPod Touch and have to say it’s not that much of a change. In this build (5A225c) the new “App Store” and the original iTunes music store is not included which is a bit of a disappointment. The settings have been revamped slightly and there is not parental controls. The coolest thing so far is the new calculator, gone are those weird circle buttons replaced with cool square ones, flip round the iPod like you were putting it in CoverFlow mode and the calculator turns into a full sized scientific variant. As far as normal user things that’s about it. Hopefully Apple add some more surprises in for the retail release as this is lacking slightly.
I would take actual screen-shots from the iPod but unfortunately Install and application support is slightly lacking just now as this is cutting edge stuff but hopefully some stuff will be ported over soon and I will get some screen shots up. There must be some way as other websites have posted screen-shots of the firmware so will try and find out.
We have finally made it, that’s me off school for two weeks thanks to the Easter holidays.
Unfortunately as my exams are only a few weeks away this will be used for studying but I also want to use my LOVEFiLM subscription a bit more as it has been lacking the past few weeks. Plus I got a free month as Jamie signed up for a subscription using my referral code, contact me if you are interested, you get 30 days free (usually it’s only 14 days you get) and I get 30 days free so win-win situation.
You may have noticed but if not I have updated the About Me page and the My Stuff page with all my latest gear and updated specifications. I will get around to the Desktops page sometime today with last months and this months desktop images.
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