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Thursday, October 9, 2008
A new Geekzone server
A new Geekzone server
Last Friday we got delivery of a new HP server for Geekzone. The new server is a HP DL360, based on an Intel 5400 quad-core 3GHz with 8 GB RAM, four 146GB HDD, and remote management.
To power this new box we will be installing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Because our hosting provider is just finishing up a new datacentre it will be a couple of weeks before we have it up and running. The current box, a three year old machine based on an Intel Xeon dual-core with 3 GB RAM and two 70 GB HDD will stay in service, as a development/staging server.
I can't wait to have the new server up and running... 
Last Friday we got delivery of a new HP server for Geekzone. The new server is a HP DL360, based on an Intel 5400 quad-core 3GHz with 8 GB RAM, four 146GB HDD, and remote management.To power this new box we will be installing Microsoft Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Because our hosting provider is just finishing up a new datacentre it will be a couple of weeks before we have it up and running. The current box, a three year old machine based on an Intel Xeon dual-core with 3 GB RAM and two 70 GB HDD will stay in service, as a development/staging server.
I can't wait to have the new server up and running...
[Updated] Wigram, perhaps the final chapter.
[Updated] Wigram, perhaps the final chapter.
I have had comment through a back-channel that this blog entry may appear to have portrayed an opinion of the organisation referred to. I would like to make it clear that this is not necessarily the case, that "All posts views held by the poster, not necessarily any person or organisation associated therewith." A disclaimer which you will note on the right of the page.
It appears that there may have been some "confusion" regarding the approval sought, and that official approval may not have been given in the first place, and that the reason for refusing access to the airfield at this time was not necessarily as inflexible as it appeared. An attempt to rectify the situation has been made and a tacit approval has been given to the organisation referred to for the holding of a flyin at Wigram in mid October.
On Sunday coming, the Canterbury Recreational Aircraft Club (of which I am a member) had planned to have a flyin to Wigram, permission was sought and thought to be obtained from Ngai Tahu, and it had also been discussed with airfield inhabitants who were supportive and looking forward to us all visiting etc. Today, the member of our club who was organising this received a call from Ngai Tahu revoking the permission.
In short, Jan Higgens, the current person in charge of Wigram Aerodrome Ltd was uncompromising and said that all 'non resident' Wigram aircraft were forbidden to land as of the 1st of September 2008 because "a lot of development is going on; restricting the landing areas".
The NOTAM I blogged about a few days ago merely indicated that permission needed to be sought, it is now clear that you can ask, but you won't get said permission. I guess they figured the media would attend the Canterbury Aero Club flyin last Sunday and so elected to let it proceed rather than get bad press.
I understand that yesterday the plan change became effective. No doubt this is not coincidental.
I can't embed this here for some reason, but it's fitting at this point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSJamm327gE
As perhaps a final followup to the attempts to get some common sense drummed into the council, Denis Hampton, on behalf largely of Steve Campbell at the Chch Flying School had made a submission a little while ago to the Office of the Ombudsman.
The Ombudsman, for those who are not familiar with the term, is the independant office intended to provide oversight and investigation into the decisions of government, local and central.
The submission called on the Ombudsman to review the report which the council had based it's decision on and if they found as we believe the report to be fundamentally flawed in it's portrayal of Wigram as a dead airfield (the reasons for which this belief was held have been previously written in this blog, and were of course included in said submission) that they should recommend a course of action to the council which would see the whole process reviewed.
Today Denis received a reply from the Ombudsman's assistant to inform that the matter would not be investigated further as it appears the Ombudsman does not have the power to do so when the "full council" has made a decision, it can only investigate sub committees, individual members, officers and employees.
One wonders who can provide oversight to the full council when they make terrible uninformed decisions. 
I have had comment through a back-channel that this blog entry may appear to have portrayed an opinion of the organisation referred to. I would like to make it clear that this is not necessarily the case, that "All posts views held by the poster, not necessarily any person or organisation associated therewith." A disclaimer which you will note on the right of the page.
It appears that there may have been some "confusion" regarding the approval sought, and that official approval may not have been given in the first place, and that the reason for refusing access to the airfield at this time was not necessarily as inflexible as it appeared. An attempt to rectify the situation has been made and a tacit approval has been given to the organisation referred to for the holding of a flyin at Wigram in mid October.
On Sunday coming, the Canterbury Recreational Aircraft Club (of which I am a member) had planned to have a flyin to Wigram, permission was sought and thought to be obtained from Ngai Tahu, and it had also been discussed with airfield inhabitants who were supportive and looking forward to us all visiting etc. Today, the member of our club who was organising this received a call from Ngai Tahu revoking the permission.
In short, Jan Higgens, the current person in charge of Wigram Aerodrome Ltd was uncompromising and said that all 'non resident' Wigram aircraft were forbidden to land as of the 1st of September 2008 because "a lot of development is going on; restricting the landing areas".
The NOTAM I blogged about a few days ago merely indicated that permission needed to be sought, it is now clear that you can ask, but you won't get said permission. I guess they figured the media would attend the Canterbury Aero Club flyin last Sunday and so elected to let it proceed rather than get bad press.
I understand that yesterday the plan change became effective. No doubt this is not coincidental.
I can't embed this here for some reason, but it's fitting at this point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSJamm327gE
As perhaps a final followup to the attempts to get some common sense drummed into the council, Denis Hampton, on behalf largely of Steve Campbell at the Chch Flying School had made a submission a little while ago to the Office of the Ombudsman.
The Ombudsman, for those who are not familiar with the term, is the independant office intended to provide oversight and investigation into the decisions of government, local and central.
The submission called on the Ombudsman to review the report which the council had based it's decision on and if they found as we believe the report to be fundamentally flawed in it's portrayal of Wigram as a dead airfield (the reasons for which this belief was held have been previously written in this blog, and were of course included in said submission) that they should recommend a course of action to the council which would see the whole process reviewed.
Today Denis received a reply from the Ombudsman's assistant to inform that the matter would not be investigated further as it appears the Ombudsman does not have the power to do so when the "full council" has made a decision, it can only investigate sub committees, individual members, officers and employees.
One wonders who can provide oversight to the full council when they make terrible uninformed decisions.
Acer speakers
Acer speakers
Hi I just recently purchased an Acer Aspire X1200 PC and when I hooked up my speakers it didnt work so I tried putting the plug in the other holes at the back of it and it still won't work. What should I do?
Hi I just recently purchased an Acer Aspire X1200 PC and when I hooked up my speakers it didnt work so I tried putting the plug in the other holes at the back of it and it still won't work. What should I do?
Hey - it's a Monday! (Don't you just love them?)
Today's particularly exciting:
They've even kindly placed a sign saying that they're laying fibre... (drools at the thought of fibre here)
Oddly enough, we're not getting cabinetised within the next 2 years (from the cabinetisation notice list), so this must be going somewhere else... and I'm just verging on 2km from the exchange. I must really be stuck in the middle.
The good thing without cabinetisation here is that I can stick to the Red network a little longer, now that I've offically been migrated to the Red network. Just look at the following table from yesterday compared to today:
Hardware: D-Link DSL-504T (Gen I)
[Unforunately, no table can be made here...
, so here's a list even making simple fixed font text is hard here, so I'll give you a link instead.]
See here for table.
So all in all, at least a double in speed.
Also, my father realised that we have Caller ID enabled through our line for some reason... special... (and strange considering we haven't signed up to the Caller Display service for $4/mth. Hopefully they haven't signed us up to the Features pack by accident, as we have a Voicemail capable fax, and we definitely don't want calls to go into an external voicemail system)
Lastly, I'll be getting a new MT882 modem from Vodafone in the afternoon - I'll see what kind of speed increase I'll be able to draw out of that. 
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- Red network is switched on at my place
- Getting a new modem (hopefully)
- ... seeing Vector guys laying fibre less than 200m away
They've even kindly placed a sign saying that they're laying fibre... (drools at the thought of fibre here)
Oddly enough, we're not getting cabinetised within the next 2 years (from the cabinetisation notice list), so this must be going somewhere else... and I'm just verging on 2km from the exchange. I must really be stuck in the middle.
The good thing without cabinetisation here is that I can stick to the Red network a little longer, now that I've offically been migrated to the Red network. Just look at the following table from yesterday compared to today:
Hardware: D-Link DSL-504T (Gen I)
[Unforunately, no table can be made here...
, See here for table.
So all in all, at least a double in speed.
Also, my father realised that we have Caller ID enabled through our line for some reason... special... (and strange considering we haven't signed up to the Caller Display service for $4/mth. Hopefully they haven't signed us up to the Features pack by accident, as we have a Voicemail capable fax, and we definitely don't want calls to go into an external voicemail system)
Lastly, I'll be getting a new MT882 modem from Vodafone in the afternoon - I'll see what kind of speed increase I'll be able to draw out of that.
Slow Computer? Fix the Problem!
Fixing a slow computer can be tricky but there are actions you can take yourself that are likely to fix the problem and by doing them yourself you will save yourself the cost of getting a technician out to do them for you. Read More
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