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Buffalo TeraStation 1.0TB Faulty Drive Failure on RAID5

Posted 9th May 2007 in "Guides & How Tos"

Recently, one of the drives in our Buffalo TeraStation NAS (Network Attached Storage) decided to spit its dummy and throw up a Diagnostic fault...

Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook P1510

Posted 12th April 2007 in "Gadget Reviews"

After much looking around in places like PC World and so on, and a good fortnight of hunting around the Internet, I finally settled on a new notebook – the Fujtsu Siemens Lifebook P1510.

Climbing Ben Nevis... Again

Posted 9th April 2007 in "Holidays & Travel"

Whoops – I completely forgot to tell anyone outside of work that I was going away for Easter, off up to Scotland again for another crack at climbing Britain’s highest mountain, Ben Nevis, near the town of Fort William.

Creating Transparent PNG Images in GD

Posted 27th March 2007 in "Programming"

For a project at work I had to create a true colour PNG from scratch using GD, copy a load of image files to it from various locations and then display it on-screen.

Vertical Scrolling Text / News Ticker in JavaScript/DHTML

Posted 9th January 2007 in "Programming"

This code allows you to create a vertically-scrolling text box of information – such as a news ticker – to your website quickly and easily. It does not use an IFRAME so the scrolling content is actually part of your document, making it more Search Engine friendly and easier do produce by simply populating it with content from your database. This makes it XHTML Strict as well.

Wildcard Domains on CentOs / BlueQuarts Server

Posted 19th May 2006 in "Guides & How Tos"

After much hassle with the server move and general domain crappiness, I took an hour out today to see if I could remember how to do the old wildcard domain trick that I employed to offer the free subdomain / free url redirection site, all those moons ago. I really should have saved the info, because it would have saved me several server restarts, amongst other things.