Going out and buying a dozen krispy kreme's for me and my co-workers, who have also probably no idea of the day of appreciation of us. :)
Posts by rich0d
16 publicly visible posts • joined 3 May 2011
Rejoice! Sysadmin day is... TODAY. Now get in here and win free stuff
Microsoft's murder most foul: TechNet is dead
Bitcoin now accepted in London pub. In Hack-ney, of course

How many alchy sysadmins will this draw in... ?
After a random chat with my boss earlier this week, I thought of the idea of using all our machines to chug away at mining bitcoins from the hours of 7pm-7am...
600xi5-2400's, and numerous servers all mining... Should pay for a Friday night or two.
Review: HTC One
Re: Potato instead of camera module
"On the positive side, at least the build quality on this new model might actually see out a two year contract for once."
How so? My original Desire is still going strong and is now my Mum's, and my HTC One X is still running pretty well, and there's barely a ding on it...
The only thing which is pulling me away from HTC and to Samsung is updates and battery life.
Clash of the Titans: Which of you has the greatest home lab
Used to have,
i7 920 - 20Gb RAM - 60Gb SSD - 2x500Gb RAID0
i5 2500k - 16Gb RAM - 120Gb SSD - 1Tb
HP MicroServer N36L - 8GB - 2x1Tb 1x2Tb
Getting shot of it all and going for a i7 3770T, 32Gb RAM, Q77 board, and another 120Gb to plonk it in RAID0 for VM storage, and then shove all the TB disks in and RDM them to the various VMs. Should run nice and suck very little juice.
Slash A THIRD off Surface RT price or it's toast, Microsoft told
Wanna see a 30D-rack beauty that goes like the clappers?
Easy to use, virus free, secure: Aaah, how I miss my MAINFRAME
Goatse.cx opens up again - as an email provider
Microsoft fast-tracks Windows 8 Service Pack updates

Re: It's not THAT new...
"Add Start8 to get your Start button back and "Windows 8" could be useable with keyboard and mouse on a PC. The touch interface on a tablet or smartphone hopefully will develop over time."
I agree - I installed 8 over the weekend, with the addition of Start8 - it's a bloody good OS, and I actually prefer it over anything I've used prior. The updates to explorer (tickboxes, yay!) and "enterprise" grade virtualmalization is pretty awesome, another cool thing which I've been wanting natively for ages... a task bar for BOTH MONITORS. Still early days, but so far, so good.
Windows Server 2012: Smarter, stronger, frustrating
Brits get to fondle Google Nexus 7 slab in just a fortnight
Seriously? How are people moaning about the lack of storage. I have a 16Gb iPad 2 - and I don't have any issues with storage, admittedly - I don't lug around my entire music\film collection on there, I simply drag\drop what I want onto my iPad when the urge takes me when leaving the house. I personally feel 8\16Gb is fine, I would get one of these (getting one for the Mothership instead - who I already showed her it and she loved it) but I am actually holding out for a Surface Pro, as it's the ultimate in sys admin goodness, the ability to be on the network (private APN) all the time, and RDP into anything I want and with a tablet optimized UI? Yes please.
Sick of Ubuntu's bad breath? Suck on a Linux Mint instead
Win8: A beginner's guide to FondleWindows
Five amazing computers for under £100

X30/40/60 alternative...
Upon reading this - and being a junky for little computing, and wanted something *smaller* than my 13.3, I was instantly hooked on the idea of having a X series to chuck in my bag. I couldn't find a good TP for little money, but stumbled upon another gem, Dell D420/430, I picked one up off fleabay for £115 including postage, "mint condition", for a 12.1" wide screen, C2D ULV, 2Gb RAM, which'll blow any Atom out of the water, it's a steal.
The one downside to it is the ZIF PATA which it supposidly has. But oh well! A minor issue. 60Gb is more than enough for me to have a #! install on. :)