tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54457835285767148972024-03-05T14:39:08.505+00:00IT's Kris HaynesEveryday Ramblings and Solutions to Everyday problems! Kris Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00967281415343721704noreply@blogger.comBlogger119125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445783528576714897.post-30492425855961964942022-05-13T10:53:00.008+01:002022-05-13T10:56:28.548+01:00Bulk discount code 2022 - 35% Off First Order Discount Code at bulk.com <h2 class="sub_title" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "droid serif", serif; font-size: 24px; line-height: 1.3em; margin: 0px 0px 10px; outline: 0px; padding: 15px 0px 0px; vertical-align: top;">Bulk.com / Bulk Ltd - First Order Discount Code! </h2>
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Get 35% off of your first order at Bulk, home of award-winning Sports Supplements, high quality protein and health foods.</div><div class="text_post_block" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 40px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;">If you don't know much about them, read more below or skip to the end to claim your exclusive discount.</div><div class="text_post_block" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 40px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;">Bulk are building a foundation of trust with their customers, ambassadors and partners. Building a global community for the brand.</div><div class="text_post_block" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 40px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;">They're committed to creating world-class nutrition for every step of your journey. Which means delivering the highest-quality products; the most sustainably sourced packaging; and all combined with great taste. </div><div class="text_post_block" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px 0px 40px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;">Over 80% of Bulk™ products are manufactured in their very own state of the art manufacturing facilities – so they know that they only produce the best.</div></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "droid serif", serif; font-size: 24px;"><br /></span></div><div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="font-family: "droid serif", serif; font-size: 24px;">Claim 35% off here:</span></div></div>
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Kris Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00967281415343721704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445783528576714897.post-75410687697091653642020-05-05T17:25:00.002+01:002020-05-05T18:06:07.924+01:00JoinDomain VMExtensionProvisioningError when deploying WVD (aka Conflict Error)Deploying WVD Fails with a conflict error and when clicking for more information it presents a conflict and not much else that is useful by way of toubleshooting. <br />
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When creating the Host Pool, make sure that you haven't made the fatal error of using the Azure Active Directory Credential INSTEAD of the Local AD Domain Credential. </div>
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Albeit my mistake above was an easy one, it does appear the error is directly linked to the domain join process.<br />
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Kris Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00967281415343721704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445783528576714897.post-42399163819582195332020-01-02T21:29:00.003+00:002022-03-16T17:50:04.348+00:00Earn cash back on everyday purchases with Quidco - ££'s If you haven't used Quidco before, I'd love to know where you've been hiding for the last 5-6 years! And if I'm really cruel, I could then go on to tell you, if you've spent any more than £25.00, on anything, in that time period then you've also given away free cash!!<br />
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So many people I speak to think it's hard-work, or complicated but its really not. I was referred to Quidco in 2014 when my first claim was to renew my car insurance - I already knew which company I was going to choose for my renewal and so I just searched Quidco and found there was a huge £80 on offer if I bought it via their referral link... yes, £80 for a company I was already going to renew with...<br />
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Sure enough, within 90 days £80 appeared in my account... from there (understandably) I was hooked and now I earn on average £500 per year simply clicking referral links for items that I was going to buy anyway.<br />
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Quidco works by referring customers to Supplier websites, which then go on to purchase. That is quite simply it. Sometimes they offer higher rates than others and so it's worth keeping an eye out for any exclusive rates.<br />
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At the time of writing, there's £50 for opening a TSB Bank account and £85 for signing up to Vodafone Broadband, doing this in the next hour could net you a bargain, save you money and gain you £130!<br />
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And just to prove Quidco works and can work for you, here's your first taster of how simple it is!<br />
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It seems Sony May well have messed up the update, or a correlation I found for me, my PS4 tried to do it whilst in sleep mode.<br />
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Navigate to Notifications, highlight the update, press Options button and select delete.<br />
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The command most commonly referred to online and in Microsoft guides is as below:<br />
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Firstly, make sure your version is actually genuine and you're licensing the right version too.<br />
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This will reveal what you can upgrade Eval too, in a majority of cases we'll use Server Standard as an example but this refers to datacenter too.<br />
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Run the below to license your server:<br />
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If this still doesn't work, something that I spent <b>hours</b> of my life one evening figuring out... is that a command window that isn't <b><span style="color: red;">elevated</span></b> will produce an error 50, unknown error and/or a activation couldn't be completed.<br />
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Yes, its truly that simple! Elevate Command Prompt and try again, 9/10 this will fix the issue for you!Kris Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00967281415343721704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445783528576714897.post-84155288641825068542018-07-30T20:03:00.000+01:002018-07-30T20:07:19.159+01:00The age of the Digital Workplace Transformation<br />
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Over the last four or five years, I’ve seen this ‘Transformation process’ evolve, from Business Transformation, to Desktop Transformation, Application Transformation & now Digital Workplace Transformation. The approach is clearly a logical evolution of their predecessors but in my opinion, the drivers for these transformations are also now changing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The days of business IT being driven by an application are long behind us, if anything the end user employee is now at the heart of these transformations, empowered to put forward their case for how their workplace and style affects their productivity and their overall wellbeing. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>So why is it important?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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The touchpoints that our employees have within their workplaces play a vital role in how they stay motivated, informed, and engaged with what they do. This is especially true for businesses with large, widely distributed workforces. The ability to provide rapid innovation, necessitates modern tools that can effectively keep all employees fully informed.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This requirement, combined with the growing focus on work/life balance, flexible hours, and the ability to work from multiple locations (including ‘home’), means that companies must provide their employees—including offline and non-desk workers—with an employee experience that is truly mobile. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Enabling your workforce to engage with co-workers and information wherever they are and whenever they choose is a differentiator in the increasingly competitive market for attracting talent and creating the positive employee experiences necessary for businesses in today’s market to thrive.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>What is driving this change? <o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Motivated employees understand their contribution to the company and its success, they no longer want to sit in the background and work alone in their day-to-day functions. Instead they very much want to be involved and offer their input where possible to feel a part of the team – (herein should form the basic communication requirements of your Workplace Strategy). <o:p></o:p></div>
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‘Generation Y’ or ‘Millennials’, now make up the single largest group in our labour force, with ‘Generation Z’ or ‘iGen’s’ not far behind! And so, engaging this generation has become a top priority for many businesses in their visions for the future and whilst addressing their market appeal. According to a recent Microsoft study, 67 percent of employees use their personal devices at work, <b>irrespective </b>of their company's official BYOD policy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This trend continues to expand as employees feel more engaged and motivated when they can use their own devices for business purposes. In addition, I also read recently that by 2020, as a direct result of the changing need to communicate and engage - there are expected to be 639 million paid users of enterprise social networks…</div>
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Most businesses albeit different sizes, sectors, age, working styles etc etc - will often come back to similar conclusions when looking into the use-cases to be addressed by their Workplace strategy. These are broken down in my experience, into Communication, Collaboration, Knowledge & Process. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Communication</b>– will include the sharing of time sensitive or mission critical information to staff, customers and/or stakeholders. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Collaboration</b>- which often looks largely toward Intranets & shared resources, improving the ability to work in unity on projects, documents (whilst maintaining the levels of security required of the business). <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Process</b>– The part that focusses in on the expectation of the business to provide and conform to a standard, often set out within their industry – typically Human Resources, Customer Relationship Management & Enterprise Resource Planning tools etc.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Knowledge </b>– Often linking toward the structure of data systems, how easy it is to access and locate resources for utilisation in the day-to-day positions of the business? <b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>Who is the Digital Workplace aimed at?<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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‘Knowledge Workers’ are typically seen as the main users of a digital workplace, and often current strategies are designed specifically for these people. In many workplaces however, still exist desk worker finance & Human resource departments, along with Temporary and contract workers, subcontractors, remote workers and even some outsourced (yet inclusive) functions! <o:p></o:p></div>
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Until now, these people couldn’t be reached by a typical digital workplace strategy that was only accessible on company owned and provided devices. This is why going <b>mobile </b>on the personal devices of your employees is one of the key requirements in the enterprise digital age.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>Should this include your mobility strategy:<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Supporting mobile users must be part of any successful digital workplace strategy, especially in large, dispersed organisations, allowing for greater connectivity in regards to employee communication and productivity—utilising technology like mobile online meetings, online training, video learning, centralised document editing & application consumption.<b><o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Making functionality easily available on personal mobile devices means an employee app that can meet several specific requirements but most of all is secure, easy to use, none-intrusive and as flexible as possible.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Utilising Virtualisation technologies combined with BYOD, the ability to publish applications, enforce policies and remain impartial to the user’s own device is actually a very real possibility - and it should be considered as an essential part of your overall Workplace strategy. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>In summary: The Employee Is the Heart of the Digital Workplace<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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It’s important to remember that a digital workplace strategy is a program, not a project, and its implementation must start by taking into account the internal and external insights of your workforce, followed by continued improvement and refresh cycles in line with the digital presence and participation of senior management. The ultimate point of a sound digital workplace strategy is to build a more effective, more efficient business. A unified workplace application which delivers everything surrounding the four main criteria set out to achieve - is the best tool for this job. <o:p></o:p></div>
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More than “just an app,” it will be a single communication hub for the entire business that’s mobile but also works great on desktops, laptops, tablets & more.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yet another issue with the Ethereum Wallet...<br />
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I've had Bitcoin and Litecoin wallets for years, none of them have caused me anywhere near as much pain as this one has, especially so in such a small space of time!<br />
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So here's how I got around this one! (On Mac).<br />
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Go to the Applications Directory within Finder, locate Ethereum Wallet.<br />
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Right click and go Show Package Contents, in here is a folder called MacOS and then an Exec within it.<br />
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Open a Terminal Window and drag the Exec file over the Terminal Window. <br />
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Hit Enter and it will launch the Wallet but in a terminal mode.<br />
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This will give you the view of exactly what is happening in the background and for some reason, allow the app to sync and open much quicker than just normal opening it within the GUI.<br />
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Believe me when I say, this is one of the most frustrating things to happen!<br />
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Imagine this, I first get into Crypto - I buy 5 Ether through coinbase - download the Ethereum Wallet so I can have an offline Wallet store and without thinking about it - I got the wallet address and sent it all.<br />
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I then left my i7, 12GB, 1TB SSD Linux machine running with QoS enabled for bandwidth benefits for three days.. gradually getting more and more nervous.<br />
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I couldn't seem to get past the last few blocks, it would stall or just never really get anywhere!<br />
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Firstly, as an observation - I found that if you launch the application - you lose any form of syncing entirely, so leave it at the splash screen.<br />
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Secondly however if you really don't think its going to connect, then try these steps:<br />
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Go to the Develop Menu item, and change your Sync mode to "Light" it may say Beta on it but its ok.<br />
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Go to File > Backup > Accounts data<br />
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Rename ChainData to ChainData1 (or whatever you want). Close down your Wallet and re-launch it.<br />
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This didn't work first time for me, (maybe I was too keen) but if thats the case - have faith, close the app again and re-open it. Leave it on Splash, give it 15 minutes (or so depending on your circumstance) and horrar it should work!!!<br />
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Hope this helps somebody else who may have stupidly jumped without looking too...<br />
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">An interesting analogy was presented to me recently and I liked it so much that I thought I'd share it with others... </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">We go about our daily lives, almost with an element of ignorance, in that we generally take no appreciation of the day-to-day services we consume, use or even provide. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">We're woken up in the morning by our alarm clock - We don't sit back and think about the labourers working in the power stations nor do we think about the components that form the intricate circuits within the box that we so abruptly hit and shout at. We then proceed to take a shower, where we pass no regard for the Gas stations, the circuit designs, the electricity, the water, the purification, the plumbing, the drainage, the glass blowing... and on and on and on. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">My point here isn't that we don't care about these things...but more so that we've developed into a nation that take these luxuries for granted - and so when we go to sleep we <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">expect</strong> to be woken up, when we get in the shower we <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">expect</strong> hot water. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">A friend of mine introduced me to this mindset and quite rightly so, it starts your mind thinking about things - but the most interesting element I found was that this mindset links directly to the IT industry and the new Cloud era that we sit in. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Customers that I speak to don't care where the system is, they don't care how it works and they don't care what happens in the transit between us, and them - all they care about is when I turn on the tap...I get my water. When I want to consume my IT, it just works. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">I love this thought process but it does highlight one fairly obvious concern to me, when the plumbing fails - you have to be sure your supply can be resumed. Be sure to guarantee your service can be constant, even when it's not. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">So, I ask you firstly to spare a thought for the providers that we often forget about and <strong style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">expect </strong>to deliver. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Then, make sure that you vet your supply. If infrastructure is critical to your business - when the tap stops dripping - how fast can you be back up and running... </span></div>
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Kris Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00967281415343721704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445783528576714897.post-53361541733622191042016-04-06T09:30:00.000+01:002016-06-02T22:50:35.058+01:00Seen Software (SaaS), Infrastructure (IaaS) and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)? Try Desktop (DaaS), Metal (MaaS) and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS)<div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 32px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">It's no secret that the public cloud market has been growing like wildfire. In fact, a recent <a href="http://www.gartner.com/technology/home.jsp" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Gartner</a> study found spending on public cloud services is growing at more than 28% per year and private cloud spending is <em style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">three times </em>that of public cloud! That suggests total cloud spending in 2016 to hit £155 billion.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">The focus in the industry over the past few years has been on the core cloud management services of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS. But to truly understand how cloud computing is evolving you have to dive deeper below the surface. Two major developments are driving the evolution of cloud: Management and Specialisation.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">In the management space, innovations like self-service portals have given end-users a much-preferred way to request and consume their services. Whereas specialist and dedicated professionals, have developed enterprise solutions with technologies like Citrix XenDesktop, VMware View and Nvidia GRID. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Three specialist areas that have developed as part of natural market progression, are DRaaS, MaaS & DaaS - but what are they?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">MaaS - the dynamic provisioning and deployment of whole physical servers, as opposed to the provisioning of virtual machines - is a drastically underrated cloud service. MaaS services will finally open the floodgates to allow any application to be run in the cloud – any application with any service level. That means multi-tiered apps with a backend Oracle database, home grown, performance-intensive applications, low latency trading applications, etc. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">It’s been hard for people to pay attention to MaaS, mostly because server virtualisation has been “the shiny new toy” over the past few years and frankly MaaS is not an easy thing to provide. But that may change once IT administrators see the speed, scalability, agility and simplicity with which they can deploy and protect their underlying server infrastructure.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">The statistics are clear – a large percentage of servers have been virtualized in the enterprise (40% - 50% now and heading to 60% - 70%). However, there are still a large number of applications that remain running on bare metal. That important (and underappreciated) fact means that MaaS could be a key ingredient to driving more widespread adoption of cloud technology.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Over the past few years, IT departments have had to live in a culture of cost reduction – it’s just been the way of life. That culture has resulted in aging equipment, overworked staff and lots of cut corners - a perfect recipe for higher failure rates. The fact is that hardware failure and human error are still the leading causes of unplanned outages - but devastating storms and other catastrophes are also forcing businesses to get serious about geographic disaster recovery planning. Some estimates put 2014 weather related disaster costs at almost £70 billion worldwide, up 25% from 2013. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">Desktop management is a fundamental service for IT organisations. It’s critical for keeping the employees of a company productive. But there have been long standing challenges with managing the traditional desktop. The investment in desktop hardware can be a significant capital expense, especially for large organisations and day-to-day management of these devices can be a huge drain on resources.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">DaaS solutions are secure, cost-effective, easy-to-use and portable – you can get the same desktop on any device.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">According to the <a href="https://451research.com/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">451 Research Group</a>, “Interest in third-party DaaS is at fever pitch.” IT consumerisation, BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) initiatives, increase in mobile workers, Windows 8 migrations and Security/IP concerns are driving organisations to reevaluate their desktop strategy.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f9cb9c;">So, if you're not looking at IaaS, PaaS, or SaaS...make sure you've seen DRaaS, DaaS & MaaS. </span></div>
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Kris Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00967281415343721704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445783528576714897.post-661651440162690532016-03-17T22:45:00.000+00:002018-02-23T18:42:40.150+00:00Citrix VDI-in-a-Box and whats next?! <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 32px; margin-bottom: 32px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">VDI-in-a-Box is on its way out, but killing the product wasn't always Citrix's intention. Technical problems, development time and a poor sales strategy appear to be the cause of the product's death.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">VDI-in-a-Box has been rumoured to be on the chopping block since Citrix acquired Kaviza (the original company behind the product) back in May 2011. While many people lauded Citrix for gaining a VDI product that was easy to install and operate, others thought that the acquisition might have been nothing more than an attempt to alleviate the competition. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Many of us held out hope that there would ultimately be some blending of XenDesktop and VDI-in-a-Box, with the best elements of each creating a new VDI platform, but that never proved true.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Citrix earlier this year were quoted as saying “We’re going to ‘end-of-sale’ that product and it will be replaced by a simpler and more price competitive version for VDI that we have coming”. The news comes as no real surprise, given that in 5 years since the products acquisition, there’s been virtually nothing done with the software at all. But the future (for the moment) seems unclear. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">There were/are two very distinct groups of customers when it comes to Citrix, those who want VDI in a Box - for its simplicity, its price point and its low maintenance requirements. And then those who want XenDesktop, which can offer the same features (along with a whole host of others) but very clearly requires a different skill set. On the news of the products soon to be death, customers are worrying – what should they be doing next? And what could possibly help in this situation where moving to a more complex product is not the answer.</span>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Alas, as we soon say Goodbye in 2016 to Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, a promising product that had its own niche market appeal. We open the doors to a new era of outsourced cloud delivered solutions. One that delivers all the business benefits of a low maintenance, feature rich, cost effective solution – but delivered in a different way. </span></div>
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Kris Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00967281415343721704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445783528576714897.post-38764533272876811802015-12-18T22:43:00.000+00:002016-06-02T22:50:22.409+01:00Graphics have gone off the GRID!<span style="color: #f6b26b;"><br /></span>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Hopefully by now, when you see or hear the words ‘NVIDIA GRID’…you know, this is all about delivering centrally managed, accelerated graphics to virtualised desktop infrastructures, right?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">I’m guessing possibly not – anyone who uses VDI, knows that the biggest Achilles heel of the solution is delivering feature rich content and high end graphics to their power users. So what do IT Managers do, they resort to buying custom built workstations or MacPro’s and just accept that there is no alternative. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Interestingly, I think the lack of rapid deployments for NVIDIA GRID comes from the lack of market knowledge. Whomever I speak to about delivering Siemens NX, AutoDesk or CATIA (to name a few) through their VDI estate, tells me it’s not possible. It’s at that point I take great pride in having the ability to say ‘actually, it is possible and here’s why!’</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Axess were one of Three partners in the UK chosen to take the solution to market in late 2013 and to be honest, for me, it’s been a rapid learning curve about Computational Fluid Dynamics and Thermal Transition Simulation – I never thought I’d be learning about the way liquid densities are affected by outside temperatures on a Boeing 747 and thus fuel economies are reduced! But the reason this is all important, generally engineers and designers are the people who feel the pain of not using VDI. These are the guys who have to work on desktop PCs, who can’t work from home, who are still susceptible to viruses and software corruption and those who have to beg for new desktops after 18 months. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">For me, understanding these challenges is important – it means that when you’re talking to an IT manager about how you can make his life easier and reduce his costs, you can also talk to the designers and the engineers about how to make their lives easier and how much of an impact a system like this can have! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Alas however – I’m off on a tangent because recently announced by NVIDIA, is their new GRID 2.0 (sounds like Skynet, right?). Almost a dozen fortune 500 companies in the states are completing trials of GRID 2.0 right now - and with 125 approved server models supporting the technology– it looks like this solution could start opening some big doors. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">Employees can work from almost anywhere without delays in downloading files, increasing their productivity. IT departments can equip workers with instant access to powerful applications, improving resource allocation. And data can be stored more securely by residing in a central server rather than individual systems.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">"NVIDIA GRID technology enables employees to do their best work regardless of the device they use or where they are located. This is the future of enterprise computing." said Jen-Hsun Huang, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f6b26b;">The ability to virtualise high end desktops from the datacentre has not been possible until now due to low performance, poor user experience and limited server and application support. NVIDIA GRID 2.0 integrates the GPU into the datacentre and clears away these barriers by offering:</span></div>
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<li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 32px; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #f6b26b;">Blade server support: Enterprises can now run GRID-enabled virtual desktops on blade servers — not simply rack servers — from leading blade server providers (especially important for clients with Green initiatives).</span></li>
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Kris Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00967281415343721704noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445783528576714897.post-86821479914323658762014-02-16T19:00:00.000+00:002014-02-18T22:04:33.863+00:00My top stock picks for the week! - 17th February 2014 My top picks for this week include a number of stocks I've been watching for some time now, these all have support and break out barriers that are easily identifiable. There are also key signs of trend reversals or additional growth.<br />
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IMG - Imagination Technologies:<br />
Enter at 179p, seeking an exit around 184p by Friday<br />
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MNDI - Mondi Plc<br />
Enter at 1028.00 with an exit around 1055.00 before Friday close.<br />
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ACHL - Asian Citrus Holdings<br />
Enter at 12.00p exit around 14.50p (Slow mover but just may surprise us here).<br />
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DTG - Dart Group<br />
Enter at 263.00, exit around 276.00 (maybe more).<br />
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The better way and faster way to earn using LTC is to run a CPU miner in a pool of shared resource and split the benefits. <br />
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I`m going to be putting together a small very simple, easy to use package available to download and just run. This will connect you into my pool and begin utilising your processor (at a stable rate, worth mentioning).<br />
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Anyone who wants to know more, please email me or add your details into the comments section ( I wont post these online, they`re private comments). I`m looking for people to give a Worker address too and share the payouts at the end of each week - so if you want to get involved let me know. <br />
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Some easy way to sell these coins for those who don`t know. At time of writing, 1.0 LTC sells on eBay for 30-40 GBP OR you can convert them to USD for about 40 USD. With the increase in share price still rising, its worth keeping them as an investment to sell later. 1 x Bitcoin now sells for about 680 GBP but started around the same price as the LTC currency.<br />
Kris Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00967281415343721704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445783528576714897.post-40862796454273596782013-11-21T22:16:00.000+00:002013-11-21T22:16:02.593+00:00Are you ready for the end of SBS & migrating to Hosted Exchange?<div align="left" class="body_copy_orange" style="color: #ff9900; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 24px;">
<b style="color: #666666; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;">As you will probably already know, Microsoft's popular Small Business Server (SBS) comes to the end of its successful career on 31st December. </b></div>
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Its not-so-popular successor Windows Server Essentials, provides some elements of on-site functionality for very small businesses, however there's the added expense of a separate Exchange server, or the choice of using Cloud-based Hosted Exchange services such as <a href="http://www.deltawebsolutions.co.uk/hosted-exchange.html" target="_blank">Delta Web's Hosted Exchange</a> or Office 365.</div>
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Exchange 2010 is just £4.95 per mailbox, per month and Microsoft SharePoint is £2.50 per user, per month. </div>
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If you haven't thought about moving to the cloud for hosted exchange, here are 8 reasons you could benefit from moving to the cloud!</div>
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Kris Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00967281415343721704noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445783528576714897.post-14148447485215148432012-11-28T09:07:00.001+00:002012-11-28T09:07:52.146+00:00Convert whole iTunes library to MP3<br />
Ok, to avoid arguments with the kind of people who come on pretty strong screaming about 'why you'd want to do this' and 'how Apple's AAC or Loss-less formats are better' let me just take two seconds to explain my situation.<br />
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I am running an Apple iMac 27" with a collection of music stemming about 10 years, not massive; about 50GB-ish. Now I have decided to purchase an OEM Car stereo which allows me to play my music from a Micro SD Card! :O I hear you gasp, yes technology is wonderful. My problem of course is, these kinds of players only find and play MP3 formats from these disks... So, now we have that out of the way; I'm going to let you in on a little trick I thought about which will allow you to achieve this.<br />
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* The files MUST be in the same folders as the source - I don't want 1000's of mp3 files exported into the same folder so I can no longer identify tracks or Cd's!<br />
* The original files I'd like to keep, for the sake of file sizes and other arguable reasons.<br />
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I found you can obviously Change your settings in iTunes, (Preferences, Import Settings, MP3) which then allows you to right click on each song and create an MP3 version. The issue with this is that it duplicates it into the original folder. Thus not getting you very far at all. This will sort your problem though if you don't mind leaving AAC behind. In which case just do a search for .m4a and delete all. You're just left with your MP3's.<br />
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You could also, use technology like MediaMonkey or Format Factory again the issue is that these programs output to just one folder! <br />
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There is a script file that I found here: <a href="http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=convertandexport" target="_blank">http://dougscripts.com/</a> but I didnt try this out, maybe you may want to give it a go. It looked like it may have worked.<br />
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In the end I chose to create a new User, create a new iTunes library; setting the import function to create a copy of the music file and not read straight from source. (File, Library, Organise, Consolidate). So we now have two sets of iTunes music. Now Right click on all tracks, select Create MP3 version and then you now have a full MP3 iTunes library. Finally to finish, go into the new folder, search for all m4a's and delete.<br />
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The Final product leaves you with your library left alone in AAC (m4a) format along with a duplicate library containing everything in MP3...<br />
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This was what I needed to achieve, maybe someone else needed the same thing... hope it helps...<br />
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The reason that the phones and iMail (to name a few) cant connect to the Exchange from inside the network is because you will most likely be using an external IP or URL right? Thus meaning that everytime you try to access this URL from inside the server bounces packets backwards and forwards around the network not truly knowing what to do with them. <br />
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I found that if you create a new DNS zone for (mail.domain.com), create an A record within that zone leaving the host blank (to use parent domain). Then point it at your internal exchange. <br />
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This time if the users phone requests connection to mail.domain.com they get redirected (internally) to 192.168.x.x/24 <br />
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Simples.. :)<br />
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Note - You may not need to make a new zone if your domain is already running as the primary. The example I refer to above uses one domain out of about 16 that are running on this network, hence the requirement to build a zone of the sub domain.<br />
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You will need a Windows 7 CD.<br />
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1.Boot from the Windows 7 CD and click repair my computer, then follow the prompts to get through to using Advanced tools for repair and then command prompt. <br />
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2.Type C: to change letter from (normally) X: to the active partition.<br />
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<strong>copy c:\windows\system32\sethc.exe c:\</strong><br />
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This creates a copy of sethc.exe to restore later.<br />
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Reboot your computer and start the Windows installation where you forgot the administrator password.<br />
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5.After you see the logon screen, press the SHIFT key five times.<br />
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For anyone who wants to know what we've done here; we're replacing the Sticky Keys executable with a Command Prompt application. Windows will allow you to run Sticky Keys from Pre-Logon so it allows us to boot into a command prompt without authentication. You will probably not want to leave this open on your desktop so once you've finished I'd recommend you go back into the Recovery environment and replace the setch.exe file with its actual file and purpose again. (backed up to C: as per above)<br />
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<br />Kris Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00967281415343721704noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445783528576714897.post-16734183518810900462012-04-17T12:15:00.001+01:002012-04-17T12:15:12.587+01:00Biphasic Sleep Experiment - Day 1<strong><u>Let me bring you into my story first..</u></strong><br />
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So, normally I wouldn't immerse myself into experiments; I'm normally the cautious side-liner that would watch, observe and then when proven will follow! I have however taken on this role of health conscious Haynes and after panning down all those Easter eggs this March, I think it's time to evaluate my fitness regime. The problem I have as an individual; is that when I get home at 6pm, it's time for tea, half 6-7 undress, redress and get ready for the evening and then I either go out to meet friends or go out to my Photography club all of which I enjoy but it does take up a lot of time. By the time I get home, we're normally around 11/12pm and I'm up at 8am very tired, to then shower and run off to work for 9am. <br />
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I want to have some time to exercise but finding it around my schedule is difficult. I've done some research and to what I understand, I've been doing this so long that my agenda is written very strongly into my subconscious. I wake up at 8am (practically without an alarm / albeit tired) I sleep at 12/half 12 in the morning, just because I need to not because I'm tired and this is what I want to change. I want to wake up early, go for a run/swim/cycle or jog have some time to relax before work and then get on with my day. <br />
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So I reviewed my options, it appears the three most obvious (Shy of using anti-sleep drugs - not my idea of safe/fun) that I can find are to explore MonoPhasic, BiPhasic and PolyPhasic Sleep patterns. <br />
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<strong>Monophasic </strong>being sleeping during the night and awake during the day with a very particular pattern. <br />
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<strong>Biphasic</strong> to sleep for 4 hours in the morning and 1 hour in the evening - strict but with variance.<br />
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<strong>Polyphasic</strong> to have 2 hours sleep a day, every four hours taking a 20 minute nap. - Very strict.<br />
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Now I'm quite intrigured by the polyphasic idea but to be quite honest, it's incredibly unsociable and I can't imagine my boss being too happy at work when I suggest every 4 hours <em>I'm just going to take a nap!</em> So I said I'm going to try and migrate myself onto a <strong>Biphasic Sleeping pattern</strong>.<br />
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So now you know what I'm upto, I figured I'd share my experiences. Apparently the first week is supposed to be the worst where you feel you have been hit by a bus. <br />
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Here's my new schedule; starting today.<br />
<strong>00:30am - Go to Sleep.</strong><br />
<strong>05:30am - Wake up and exercise</strong><br />
<strong>06:30am - Shower and dress.</strong><br />
<strong>07:15am - Some 'productivity' time.</strong><br />
<strong>08:15am - Set off to work earlier.</strong><br />
<strong>08:45am - Start work.</strong><br />
<strong>17:30pm - Finish Work.</strong><br />
<strong>18:00pm - Arrive home and have tea (Dinner).</strong><br />
<strong>18:30pm - 1 Hour Nap.</strong><br />
<strong>19:30pm - Wake up and go out.</strong><br />
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This will give me a total of 5 Hours sleep per day compared to my normal 7 and a half although I'm fairly confident that after the first week 5 hours will be more than enough, if well balanced. <br />
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<em>More entries to follow... I'd be interested if people have thoughts or have tried this before to let me know below... </em><br />
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<br />Kris Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00967281415343721704noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5445783528576714897.post-86854581775964423412012-04-10T22:14:00.000+01:002012-04-17T10:54:51.505+01:00Time Machine Full Not Deleting Backups Mac OS XSee, I said this would happen didn't I.<br />
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I managed to break every element of Windows and now I'm even managing the same with MAC OS X!<br />
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This one got me for a while though, basically I found that my 500GB External Passport Drive was full, it made sense because the day prior I moved 200GB of data from one location to another, so I guess the time machine simply presumed it would backup the same data but in different locations hence running my drive out of space.<br />
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The issue was that Lion (to my understanding) would delete old backups in order to fix the space issues on my drive, apparently this seems like it isn't quite accurate. You have to go into Time Machine and Delete the old files you don't want anymore. So here's how I did it, I spent ages in that stupid Time Capsule Preferences window with barely any settings to change and just shy of chucking the machine through the window i noticed that in the top right where you locate the Time Capsule icon you can actually hit Enter Time Machine which takes you into the Backup Program. Now if you navigate to a point in time or to a set of files that you perhaps don't need anymore. Right click and hit delete all backups of... This will clear out your old data on the backups and allow the program to continue.<br />
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Obviously this won't apply to everyone, 50% of you will probably actually have a full disk. In which case, go out and buy another! The remainder however; this should help you out hopefully.<br />
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Hope it helps :)<br />
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Kris<br />
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<br />Kris Hayneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00967281415343721704noreply@blogger.com0