Having managed to rescue the partition tables of my machine using ‘The Ultimate bot disk’ I could then boot the machine up into windows, however it was so slow all I could do was login, I could not browse drives or copy anything off. I took the disk out and used a USB to IDE …
Monthly Archive: January 2009
Jan
10
Jan
09
Started Adding Domains Into Domain Name Portfolio
One of the largest chunks of work I lost in the recent server failure was the Domain name portfolio I had setup on Quill Internet. This software enables me to list all the domain names that I own in one place. I want to do this for several reasons, firstly, I use many different registrars …
Jan
07
Roasted Parsnip Soup
Feeds: 4 Cooking Time: 40 Minutes Ingredients: 2 tbsp olive oil 1 tsp coriander seeds 1 tsp cumin seeds , plus extra to garnish 1 tsp ground turmeric Pinch of mustard seeds 1 large onion , cut into 8 chunks 2 garlic cloves 6 parsnips , diced 2 plum tomatoes , quartered 1.2l vegetable stock …
Jan
07
Computer Failure Part 2
I left my main desktop PC with its broken partition table and thus nothing more than a box in the corner last night and went to bed – See my post last night about the strange happenings on my Desktop PC. This evening I have been attacking the system from any angle I can desperately …
Jan
07
Potato And Onion Soup
Feeds: 4 Cooking Time:1h 20 Mins Serves: 4 Ingredients 450g potatoes, diced 1 carrot, diced 2 litres water 450g onions 3 tbsp olive oil 120 ml dry white wine fresh ground black pepper salt Instructions: Place the Potato and Carrot in a pan, poor in water and heat to a simmer Once Simmering leave on …
Jan
06
Still Sorting Out After Server Failure
I have at last got my mail serve back on line and checking SPAM although I am not too happy with how much SPAM is still getting through. I will tighten up the rules. I deliver SPAM to a Spam folder in each users mail boxes, I used to have a script that deleted emails …
Jan
02
Server Failure
If you have been trying to get to this blog over the last week or so you will have found that it has been down, along with all my other sites. This was due to a hardware failure on my web server, which coming as it did over the Christmas period has been somewhat frustrating. …
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