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Google revealed their glorious OS a few days. So far it seems that many people that are that way inclined will be run as virtual machine. This however is a pain as it wastes CPU cycles and accessing your file system outside the virtual machine can be problematic. So to run Google Apps on your desktop without a browser it would be ideal if you could turn Google Chrome into an XP application. Read More

We have been looking on how to setup our own mini cloud and virtualize all our GroupMail and Mailfort services. The results have been very poor partucularly with disk IO. Read More

Further to my original blog on FreeBSD multihoming I have found a way of correcting a mistake the original design has, which causes problems and puts unnecessary load on your router. Read More

QR Codes are 2D bar are under utilized technology which have many very practical uses as they permit to text store information which can be automatically scanned with mobile phones. Following is a list of uses of QR Codes I've come up with.
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Many entrepeneurs may question their executioin abilities after having bankrupted a company. It seems that the company name has a lot to do with it. Today we delve in to the Hong Kong Government Company Registrar search engine and look at what names are likely to fail and which survive.
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It is unfortunate that HK Goverments department dealing with weights and measures are not educated enough to be able to 'weight' a megabit. When you buy a megabit of bandwidth in HK we don't have a clue what we are going to get. ISPs get to sell you what they fancy and are not abliged to give you any performance pledges. That could easily be changed if the ISPs published a few metrics they have and commited to the customer as to what they will deliver. Read More

Why suffer with sluggish IP performance? There are plenty of tools out there to blast through bottlenecks on networks and servers. Read More

What hardware vendor do you know that will give full software support to a products and then refuse to give support to another identical product without not differentiate the products in the least? Our beloved Nokia does just that. When you buy Nokia, you have no clue what is going to happen with the support.
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I found a nice 32,000 track backs in my database. Pretty pointless as none have ever been displayed on this blog still they are a waste of time. For those out there that feel like abandoning their blog because they have thousands of trackbacks to remove they can do so by.... Read More

You would have thought with all the number of MTA's and maturity of code that email would be more reliable but the fact we are finding in the past few months things are getting progressively worse.
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