Maybe there is a lucrative trade in this ? equally I've never got paid for doing it some I'm guessing probably not.

Anyone got any cool hair colours they have gone?

Ive been Dark Blue and Brown 

Well anything can be an improvement on the previous i hope

Well we signed up with GoDaddy and there system and service is slow to say at the least. I was quite disappointed with everything going online and being fully automated I expected a lot better performance. I know there has to be checking done on SSL Certs but everything took 24-48 hours. I struggled a lot with there automated validation tools i tried doing the Website check where you upload a HTML file with the name of a specific code, this just went badly i failed the first time with the process taking 3 days to then start again. I tried to get there support and got a message back saying please provide more details that was annoying.

But we got it all working after about 4-5 days and with no support from GoDaddy, not a company I would trust todo anything again. Maybe thats why they do things cheap.

My quest for good quality support continues...

• Episode 1
• Episode 2

I have tinkered with Twitter and set up my phone to receive updates and be able to update twitter from my phone so that's nice. Also while going on the O2 site i found that you can now text 21202 on pay monthly contracts and get the update of your balance, pretty neat I've wanted that for a long time

But today is different I wanted to say thanks and thought there's two ways to do that one financial i know Joe Audette struggles with finance for Mojo since its all based on the community donating and buying features, so I've bought Joe a coffee to keep him going, and also by giving him a shout out on my blog that links through to friendfeed and twitter it should help people see MojoPortal and give it a try.

Well we contacted Brother the manufacturer of the product and after fiddling around to find the number for some reason the number in the manual was wrong, but after a quick look at there website we found the number. Promptly giving them a call navigating I think it was 2 menu's with in about 5 seconds i was through to a support guy. He gave us some advice to try following the cleaning instructions this often solved a lot of problems. So we gave it a try and unfortunately didn't work so I rang back less than 5 seconds again and through to the same support engineer and he arranged delivery of a new sewing machine via TNT next day delivery... wow, so they sent it out arrived next day and my wonderful Nettles has 2 weeks to contact a person to arrange collection of the old sewing machine. I was amazed no questions just quick rapid support.

Some people do get it right and Brother have proven to be one. 

Well out with the old in with the new, I'm working to sort out a new home for a small project I'm working on hopefully it will prove to be a success but we shall see for now. Its new home is being setup that's one of the main things my server was remaining alive for.

Thank You ickle server you have done me proud

The feature is called Super Preview and is very useful for comparison. A few screenshots:

They do a diverse job that is really nice to see lots of challenges and everyday i think will be interesting and an experience. I am looking forward to hearing from them

Only time will tell

Woop Woop for instant online support though

Woop for being a Professional Member!

Anyway, I have an Interview a week Tuesday  so woop woop go me

We will have to see how it goes  but its exciting times

Now he's over there he has no signal and the phone is unusable useful hey?

I give Vodafone a ring and explain the situation and they say there is nothing they can do since i am not my dad, so they want my dad to ring them on a phone that doesn't work? I'm thinking this is stupid its not like I'm asking to change billing contact or any information just for them to do a diagnostic and probably say "theres nothing we can do".

Now I'm one to understand the importance of security but i think this seems to be going a little too far? or am i being unreasonable?

We shall see how it goes feeling a mixture of emotions fear and excitement :) time to get studying :)

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Well there you go the end of the world good post for new install ?

Configurations at risk:

Multiple Graphics cards, possibly only heterogeneous graphics cards. (aka 2 Graphics cards of different model)

Symptoms:

While installing after the first reboot, when finalizing your installation the screen flickers and resizes to your maximum supported range then within 30seconds blue screens.

Blue Screen Error: nvlddmkm

Solution:

• Remove your secondary graphics card during install, i know it is a little bit of a brute way but i removed mine and it installed fine since in my case ripping the card out took 30seconds that seems the fastest solution.
• Finnish Install
• Install Latest Driver from NVIDIA
• Shutdown
• Plug in Second Graphics card
• Restart and hopefully all is well...

My Configuration:

• Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0GHz
• 6gb Ram
• Nvidia 9800 GTX
• Nvidia 7950GX2 (Extreme or X)
• Mulitple HD's 300gb main

I'm doubting I'm going to go wow to the RTM since as many others have stated it was pretty much a finished product from the Beta onwards. But hey its always good to have a proper install

There are two times when you should never do sales:

1. Contacting for Support a big NO NO!
2. Contacting for Billing

Now this is fairly simple but BT have decided they don't want to stick to basic courtesy and decide they want to ask you if you would like to move your phone line every time you ring we moved Internet about a month ago i had exactly the same sales then and i didn't go for it so why when I'm ringing up to fix there screw ups would i go for it ?

BT really have gone down the pan it seems will probably do a lot more shopping next time broadband is up for renewal.

I was contacted by two different companies one that i would consider to be large and one that i would consider to be smaller.

The large one that actually put a comment on my blog was Everycity now this is a company that are selling to the big scale customers selling some impressive VPS solutions at good prices. Sadly the company i work for wasn't really of the size to handle such a big solution until our Website gets a few more hits i don't think this is the one for us but they are worth a look if you are looking for Managed/Unmanaged VPS they provide solutions to give your Website a quick experience. The guy i spoke to at the company was very friendly and was quick to get me a quote.

The smaller company was called Cactus Internet the person i spoke to from them actually went out of his way to contact me on messenger to be honest i was impressed its unusual to have such a personal experience with a hosting company. It may not be a 50 man company but they do offer a lot of good services at very fair prices. The person i spoke to was very supportive and although was encouraging me to go Linux to get the cost down knows what hes talking about.

So why didn't we go with these two companies, well Everycity was very good but the price was too steep for a company our size. Why didn't we go with Cactus then i don't know if its my experience with fasthosts that have made me crazily over protective but EUKHost offer a slightly better fall over system. Is it worth the extra cost I'm not sure but we are hoping it will work out in the long run.

Conclusion:

Does your site get a lot of traffic and are you looking for a business colleague? If yes then take a look at everycity.co.uk

Are you looking for value for money and a person you know? If yes then take a look at cactusinternet.com

Want a middle ground a little bit more comfort of mind but lose a bit of the personalization?  try eukhost.com

I asked the delivery guy and apparently he came from Bristol and was out by about 6am so something has gone wrong ther but never mind.

The book is impressive a nice back breaking 794 pages, is a big exam think this ones going to take a lot of studying for.

Call me pessimistic but if its out for delivery at 6:21 AM in Glasgow i live in just south of Bristol then its got to travel 388 miles, assuming that he is just delivering to me that will take6 hours and 28 minutes (according to Google) and this is the nice pretty route he will have to take.

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My big question is will he make it ?

(To Note: Yes i am flying with my beautiful Nettles)

But what do you do with 6gb of RAM that justifies having i already ran a lot of programs that pretty much pushed me over my 2gb really do i need to run even more programs to have use of the 6gb... my other idea is to write a nice memory leak i know not the best use.

Guess its back to VM world run up a few VM's although will come in handy really since i am going to be doing a lot of work testing multiple OS's with TooGaming very soon.

Well we shall see what i can do to abuse my ram i do have a talent for abusing memory