I have recently moved from Stratford to Poplar.
Maan, how I dislike all that packing up and even more - unpacking.
Now, I have a bit smaller place but better in overall terms.
The only think which I am missing is a place to store my rubbish gadgets. After some consultation with my tribe I will probably go for something like a mechanics tool cabinet Clarke CTC 500 , unfortunately higher models are obscenely expensive!
After, not much over 1 year, I am retiring my Media Vault .
Having a network attached storage is a briliant idea. I am staying with it. It’s just the Media Vault product.
Slow death. After half a year, a small fan has broken and since then it became loud, I have contacted HP to get it replaced, but they asked me to ship the whole unit to them, even when I was perfectly fine to replace it my self. I said ˇNo, thank you˝. That was my first experience with HP Support for dummies (home user). Months later, I have moved to a new place with a dedicated computer closet and I bought a proper server, the ML110. From there, I started experimenting with OpenSolaris, which with ZFS and NFS - SMB sharing, it’s soo much better and extremely flexible solution.
Two 750GB drives later I have my first Sol(aris)NAS. Very nice creature and actually faster than the MV. Last week I started migrating data on to the SolNas, and today I’ve finished migrating clients to it. Nice!
MV is switched off, my energy consumption lost a 35W sucker and I have no idea what to do with it now. Just gonna leave it where it is. Maybe you want it ?
Didn’t intended to do any shopping today, but I ended up buying a few things.
Headphones from Sennheiser , the HD 415 which are replacing my ancient Phillips HP140. This is because old ones started to leave pieces of some black coating on my head … and they were shit from the beginning. HD 415 didn’t break the bank and still feel and sound good.
Another item on the list is Microsoft Comfort Curve Keyboard 2000. Since I have started to use my desktop not only for gaming, I was really hating the standard Dell Keyboard, which it was delivered with - feel on the keys is just plain wrong and many times you have to use a lot of force to push a key down. I have some wireless Belkin keyboard, but it is shit as well - eats(doesn’t transmit) letters and doesn’t have the responsiveness. So, now I have a nice low profile MS keyboard, I am still getting used to curved line of keys. The new keyboard has some multimedia keys present, I have been successful to map couple of them to the right functionality. But I still have problems with getting Back and Forward to actually work in FF - they have their own key codes so it is not Just Works (c) like with IBM keyboards ( they map them as alt+left and alt+right ). Also Banshee is refusing to react to Play/Pause button mapping.
I have finally bought a remote controlled mains socket switch. It’s just 5 quid and saves me diving behind a sofa to switch off my kit for the night. Yes, I have started to switch off all my equipment at the wall socket, this crap is using about 55W while on standby!!!!
So it looks London is not as power perfect as I initially anticipated.
Today I had no electricity at my place for about 10 hours. The best part is that when I was coming back home, I have asked one of the workers, when it may be fixed and he said that they still didn’t find were was the fault ! and this was 4 hours after they first noticed the fault.
9 years ago when I was studying to become Electrician, we had knowledge how to find fault on lines and some meters to that with a nice resolution. And look at London Energy they still don’t know how to find short lines after 9 years … maybe they can borrow some old meters from Poland and get decent polish power line engineers to operate them.
About two weeks ago I have moved to a new place. One bedroom flat, no flatmates ! Perfect.
Got my phone line sorted in 3 days, just a reconnection no installation fees. ADSL was 4 days later on the line, thanks to really good support from my ISP the AAISP. After a few days I realised that I can download faster than 2Mbps … little poking around tells me that ADSL synchronized at 7.8Mbps! but BT gave me 2Mbps profile. Simple email to AAISP, next working day I have my 8Mbps allocated. Really like that kind of service, no fuss with script reading clueless bots.
Today done final installation of network cabling … my thumbnail hurts. Couldn’t hide them well so I have used white cables … just forgot that I have ordered 50 feet … not 25 feet long ones and now I have a lot of slack.
Oh mate, it is so relaxing and cool without all these flatmates.
This is busy period, I am working my ass out and I have not much time for my self.
At least I have manage to get a break mid July and I have uploaded some pictures to my, today fixed, gallery
When I was on holiday, my broadband supplier ( Black Cat Networks ) has been taken over and my superb service will be disrupted as a new company will not provide IPv6 which I rely on. I have subscribed with with AAISP they have strange bandwidth limits … 8-18 workdays … but during that time I am at the office, so not a big problem.
After many years … yes, years, I’ve sort of sorted my music 
Still have to get rest of my collection from Poland but it’s good. Also a friend shared some nice soul with me, THX! it’s cool hot.
It appears that my recent purchase ( the HP Media Vault ) was a great idea. It forced me to sort my data properly and security is strait in my network now, all thanks to my new NAS
Soon I will have to get around buying that 300GB SATA HD to enable mirroring on it, super safe! 
After weeks without proper Internet connection at home I got it and I went for the best!
I have Black Cat Networks ADSL line, more expensive that this cheap no customer service consumer broadbands. But it has everything what you can imagine. Static IPv4, own subnet in IPv4 if you wish and my favorite IP , the IPv6!!!! And on top of that there is Kind, Fast and Clueful customer support.
Hope this will stay like that
Load of changes to my world after I came back from my Xmax/New Years break.
Mainly at work, where I was welcomed with sad news. And since then I was working hard and preparing and preparing…
My Internet connection is patchy at home, the only way to get to the Internet is thru my office or my E61 ( hurray! ).
When I will have some permament connection at home, expect updates…
I’m in a process of moving to a new flat, so not to much update. Also Ann is with me until next Monday, so I spending as much time with her as I can.
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