July 30th, 2010
Purchased a TiVo 160gb just the other week. It’s a run out model in a brown box. I had my suspicion it was a refurbish unit, however couldn’t get a straight answer. In any case I was going to purchase one, as it was far cheaper then the current 320gb models available. It comes with 12 months warranty.
Managed to get a bit knocked off price too. Brought it home set it up, then had to wait about 12 hours for the device to get the latest updates, then get enabled with the device name I selected. We already owned a older TiVo 160gb and I had the home networking package enabled/purchased.
While I was waiting for it to update I noticed TiVo offering a 1Tb Expander drive by redemption. Just need to setup a Caspa Wallet, then purchase a unit between a certain time frame. Of course pay for postage costs. Submitted details and got a error. Which clearly said the unit was believed to have been previously registered prior to the offer. Contacted the people behind the email address pointed out this was a unit purchased a few days earlier and falls within the period, and isn’t excluded by any conditions. To my delight, they fixed the problem with in 2 business days and then a few days later my credit card was charged for the postage. 1Tb Expander drive arrived today and it only cost me $10 for the postage. Very happy.
Tags: House, Technology, TiVo, TV
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July 28th, 2010
I lost my mobile last week, and unfortunately nobody handed it in. I believe I lost it outside of work in public area. Lots of foot traffic, but nobody seems to have handed in the phone.
Like they say, first time for everything. First time I have ever lost a mobile phone ever. Not overly happy, but what can you do. So iPhone 3GS is no more. It’s gone.
Now delegated to using a Nokia E71 until the completion of the contract. Oh well. The iPhone has since become a brick to whom ever found it, as it has been provider blocked by the code of the phone.
Tags: Events, Gadgets, iPhone, Technology
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July 12th, 2010
Passed the 70-642 exam today. It’s hoped that I can complete another one by the end of August. Aiming to undertake the 70-646 probably next, then coming back to complete 70-640 to finish off the MCITP: Server Admin certification track.
Tags: MCTS, Microsoft, Technology
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June 28th, 2010
The Microsoft Windows 2008 Server Administrator books arrived about a few weeks ago. Started off reading the 70-642 book first. Some people recommended doing 70-640 first.
Just about finished the 70-642 book and have planned on attempting the exam 19th July, assuming I am confident when the time rolls around.
Wish me luck 
EDIT: Pulled exam forward a week. Got sick of reviewing. Now booked for 12th July.
Tags: MCTS, Microsoft, Technology
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June 12th, 2010
Found the following article here in my travels. It’s information on 2 large companies who have recently rolled out Windows 7 and they share what they obtained by doing it.
Tags: Software, Windows
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May 31st, 2010
Sat for my MCTS: Windows 7 Configuration 70-680 today. Passed.
Now to order more books and continue this study/exam journey I have started. I hope Microsoft extend the 2nd chance offer when it ends in June. Soon see.
I won’t be doing another exam until I have the next set of books to read. Plan on ordering the books this week, so I won’t have them for about 3 weeks. So get to have a break, although I may do some reading from online resources (or via pdf’s until they show up).
Tags: MCTS, Microsoft, Technology
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May 30th, 2010
Sorry about the lack of posts. But I’ve been very busy in recent months.
Between work and other stuff, not had much spare time. Currently finishing up a month long preparation for another Microsoft exam. I’ve been reading my 2nd book I purchased which was Windows 7 Configuration (70-680) which I booked the exam for the day after I completed my Vista Configuration exam.
Tomorrow is the big day to complete the next exam. If I can pass this one of the first go, then I’ll be ordering more books. Plan on doing MCITP: Server Administrator (2008) exams/certs. I’ve also been told I should probably grab an MCITP for Windows 7, which means I will probably end up doing 70-686 once the material is available later in the year, although I have found some online resources to work from in the meantime.
Will be sure to post back my progress soon.
Tags: Events, Microsoft, Technology
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May 12th, 2010
Unfortunately the Nitro Revo 2.5R I have suffered some issues several weeks back. I had it run away from me and then several weeks later I went to use it again and found it had issues starting.
I gave up in frustration and ordered an e-revo (after selling off my other 2 electric cars). Courier came early today to drop it off, but didn’t seem to knock or hang about. Now I have to head to the courier depot tomorrow morning to pick it up.
I got a blue model, should look great. Will get some new batteries for it, in the meantime will need to use the ones it comes with and my old LiPo’s.
For more information on the Traxxas E-Revo check out the following site link here.
EDIT: on the bright side, I now have a fair few spares from the old nitro that will work on the e-revo model.
Tags: Hobbies, R/C, Traxxas
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April 20th, 2010
I sat the MCTS: Vista Configuration 70-620 exam yesterday and passed on the first attempt.
So the book previously purchased assisted in obtaining the certification. I’ve now started on the 2nd book I had purchased, which was MCTS: Windows 7 Configuration 70-680, and I am thinking of doing this exam at the end of next month (May).
If anyone want’s to purchase Microsoft Press 70-620 book, contact me. I’d be happy to sell the book in question.
Tags: MCTS, Microsoft, Technology
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April 12th, 2010
FileZilla Client is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.
Features:
- Easy to use
- Supports FTP, FTP over SSL/TLS (FTPS) and SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
- Cross-platform. Runs on Windows, Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X and more
- IPv6 support
- Available in many languages
- Supports resume and transfer of large files >4GB
- Tabbed user interface
- Powerful Site Manager and transfer queue
- Bookmarks
- Drag & drop support
- Configurable transfer speed limits
- Filename filters
- Directory comparison
- Network configuration wizard
- Remote file editing
- Keep-alive
- HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5 and FTP-Proxy support
- Logging to file
- Synchronized directory browsing
- Remote file search
Tags: Software, Windows
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