Richard J Green

My Birthday

So it’s my birthday on Thursday next week – Not long now.
I’ve been getting pretty pumped over the last couple of weeks about asking people for a new server for our house and I had my heart and mind set on a Dell PowerEdge 2650.

Well I was looking on eBay at the weekend at which one to buy from which seller when I found a beauty. I was hoping for the Dual 2.4GHz Xeons, but this guy has the Dual 3.06GHz Xeons and the seller was a bit silly as his price was about £100 under everyone else selling a 2650. Silly me though….I deliberated for too long and someone else realised his mistake.

Feeling a bit bummed out Nicky looked the sellers other stuff and saw a PowerEdge I’ve never heard of before. It’s a Dell PowerEdge SC1425. It’s 1U with Dual 2.8GHz Xeons. I was sceptical at first as being 1U it only takes 2 hard disks, but wait….it takes SATA disks.

It was bought fairly soon after, so some April 9th, I will be in possession of my new server.

by on March 30, 2009

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Windows 7 Makes the Most of Unified Communications

Unified Communications seems to be one of the hottest topics around and Microsoft Office Communication Server (OCS) 2007 R2 is Microsoft’s offering, however OCS 2007 R2 isn’t what’ I’m talking about.

I’m talking about how Microsoft have made a quiet few tweaks in Windows 7 to make using communications products that little bit nicer.

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by on March 26, 2009

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Cisco VPN Client and Windows 7

So I was searching today for something specific to the Cisco IP Communicator software phone version of the Cisco IP 7941 to see if there is a way to make it work nice with Windows 7, but in the process I found a lot of threads and blog entries about problems with the Cisco VPN client causing BSOD’s with ndis.sys.

I’d just like to say that I’ve got the Cisco VPN client installed on my Windows 7 Build 7000 machine without any issues. I can connect and disconnect as many times as I like without issue.

This is actually better than the experience in Windows Vista where the Cisco Virtual Network Adapter for the tunnel kept failing meaning after every connect/disconnect cycle I would have to reboot to get the adapter going again before being able to connect again.

This hit me worst at home if I roamed between my two Wireless AP’s where the WPA2-PSK authentication takes a little bit of time and the tunnel would drop during the roam.

In a nutshell…..Cisco VPN client just works in Windows 7, just like it should do.

by on March 25, 2009

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RTM of Internet Explorer 8

Microsoft have just announced the RTM build of Internet Explorer 8 at Mix 09.

You can get the download from http://www.microsoft.com/ie8

My only gripe is that I’m using Windows 7, so I’m still stuck with the Beta :(

by on March 19, 2009

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A Few Wedding Snaps

I know it’s very unlike me to put pictures on Facebook as I like to only put images on our website, but while I wait for the images to come through from my Dad and brother Dan, I thought I would put a few of the snaps from the day on Facebook just to get things rolling.

There’s nothing too exciting up there – It’s just random snaps from throughout the day.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=84259&id=625915317&saved#/album.php?aid=84259&id=625915317

Enjoy x

by on March 17, 2009

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