Monthly Archives: March 2011


What did you get for St Patricks Day ?

Any one who knows who the patron Saint of Ireland knows you don’t normally get presents that day unless its your birthday. However this St Patricks Day brought a present that I could not have anticipated. About two hours before friends were due to join us for a belated birthday bash – one of them […]


Itunes and Safari not starting ?

I’ve come across this once or twice before and think it relates to some sort of contention for CD/DVD devices but the scenario is this. Itunes doesn’t recognise new cd media being inserted into drives and after closing it down and safari – neither will appear to start again but may appear in task manager […]


The latest on Splunk

Got an update through from Splunk which is timely as I was hoping to implement a Splunk server as part of a virtualisation project to allow us to pick up and monitor on vmware logs and other outputs from the systems / equipment. Splunk 4.2 is the  latest release here. Some of the highlights for the […]


Adobe Sendnow

A service from Adobe (in the style of dropbox but not requiring an installation of anything) is called Adobe Sendnow. It allows you to upload files and have a link sent to your recipient. Even better it cleans up afterwards. So about Sendnow – which you get at https://sendnow.acrobat.com/welcome.html Adobe SendNow supports a broad range of […]


Need a cheap mixer ?

I have a training engagement coming up and I was looking at some options for a small portable unit to use for mixing some wireless mics etc. Maplin have an offer at the moment that looks like a good deal (cheaper than hiring a unit for a day). The offer is for an Alexis 8-channel […]