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I was required to backup a company website, this backup had to be able to be stood up on a plain jane webserver. So after a bit of googling I came up with this. The tarball can be unpacked into the docroot standing the site up as it was the date it was backed up. Not entirely pretty but done this wa...

This post is mainly put here for me to reference in the future, my memory sucks and I have a tendency of not being able to find bookmarks/links when I need them.

Apple TV 2 remote stopped working. Thought it might have been something to do with the Jailbreak/XBMC install. Nup seems looks like...

I’ve been lusting after a DROBO for ages. Hopefully soon I will be able to justify the expense and get one. In the meantime I’ll post a link in the attempt to win one!

Western Digital 640 HD My Book Home Edition (USB/eSATA/Firewire 400) for backups $145 from JB Hifi – Dunno if it’s just me but SLOW SLOW SLOW, which in the grand scheme of things speed really isn’t that important as I bought it for data backup. I haven’t tried the eSATA, but the Firewire didn’t rea...

I wasted hours trying to work out why my XBOX couldn’t see one of the network shares on my XP PC. I had pretty much given up and put it down to a dodgy driver or the like. Then my old man, who has a PC built just like mine (which I built), told me about a registry setting.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE SYSTE...