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New Dev Box

Posted by Michael Dale on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:44 PM

Got myself a new dev box today:

AMD Phenom x3 8450 (3x2.1GHz)
2gb Ram 6gb Ram

Currently running Windows 2008 (for some Hyper-V testing). Seems to run pretty quick, just needs more ram ;)


New Server

Posted by Michael Dale on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 3:50 PM

We're just in the process of replacing our server. Specs:

  • Windows 2008 64bit (with Hyper-V for Web and VoIP)
  • Intel Q6600 (Quad 2.4GHz)
  • 4gb Ram (soon to be upgraded to 8gb)
  • 2x300gb Raid 1 Boot drive
  • 4x750gb Raid 5 Data drive

So email is currently down but will be back up tonight.


Bluetrait Event Viewer 1.8.1

Posted by Michael Dale on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:26 PM

Bluetrait Event Viewer 1.8.1 is now out. This version fixes a few bugs found in 1.8.

I've got a few ideas for BTEV 2. I'm hoping to start on it soonish, although we'll have to see about time.

I just installed WordPress 2.0.11 to test BTEV (yes it still supports 2.0) and wow, it is so much cleaner and quicker than WordPress 2.5.

The next version of WordPress is going to have Google Gears support, which is cool but shows how bloated WordPress has become.


Don't buy seagate hard drives.

Posted by Michael Dale on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 4:19 PM

I've just had another seagate drive die on me.

This time it was a 320gb SATA2 one, so pretty new. One of the chips on it died and there was an awesome smell.

We've had so many seagate drives die now it is not funny (2 this week). I've personally had about 5 this year.

Anyway as I've said before do not buy seagate drives, they just don't work.

We've been using Samsung drives, they're cheaper and work better than seagate drives.

Last week we upgraded housefiles to 4x750gb HDDs in Raid 5.