You really can sell anything on ebay ;-)

Posted on 28th July 2006 by graz27

Always someone willing to buy strange things….

Mermaid on ebay

 

Now what can I make 😉

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The start of Public tv

Posted on 12th July 2006 by graz27

Something that I could always see coming at some stage , was ordinary people making there own tv. The internet again is making this possible. As the speeds of the internet get faster and as even more surf it, there is a big audeince out there to show your talents, or intrests to.

Sites like yourtube.com and google video are the start of this. Many are uploading there own videos and mini vids of many things, like comedy, music , or just plain crazy stuff.

In the not too distant future, people will surely make there own news programs and views on many things that maybe you feel are not covered now.

There is for me, is something that will be become very big over the next few years and it will be very intresting, well at least until those in power decided its not good for us and censor or try and ban it..

But as these folk are always years behind the new technology, enjoy the years ahead and the very intresting things to come from it all.

Enjoy these from Yourtube:-

Pink Floyd – performing at Live 8 in UK.

Marc Bolan T-Trex – 1972 Metal Guru

The Sweet – Blockbuster 1973

Black Sabbath – War Pigs (Live in Paris – 1970)

This is funny – shakira my hip dont lie – give it a watch!

This pilot earned his wages landing this aircraft in windsheer and crosswinds

 

Shall post a few of the ones that tickle my fancy each week.

Take care to you all

Graham 🙂

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Esx server 3 on Compaq DL760 & 6500

Posted on 28th June 2006 by graz27

Thought I would give installing Vmware’s Eval of Esx 3 Virtualization software on 2 of these old servers just to see how it worked.

These servers used to run the older 2.5 version pretty okay considering they are not the state of the art machines thesedays.

But Esx 3 is much more picky about the hardware it will install on and on the install cd , it would not find any of the hard disks in the machines to install on.

Did not surprise me about the Compaq Proliant 6500 machine as it has only 4 x 550mhz xeons cpu’s and 4 gig of memory.

However did think the DL760 g1 with 8 X 900MHZ 2meg Xeon cpu’s might have been okay, but ESX 3 does not support the Compaq integrated scsi array in the machine.

So just for a laugh and curious, I am upgrading both machines with a COMPAQ 171383-001 SMART ARRAY 5300, which is supported, not sure if this will work as Esx 3, states a min of a 1500MHZ cpu.

Installing this card in the older Proliant 6500 should be no prob, as it is just whip out the old card and run the cables onto the new card.

But doing this in the DL760 is somewhat harder as you need to get hold of a new io pcb to fit on the back of the orginal hard disk cage with long enough cables to reach where you slot in the pci smart array card is now.

so parts I had to get for this machine were:-

171383-001 SMART ARRAY 5300

And 2 of these boards:-

146447-002 COMPAQ SMART ARRAY BYPASS CABLE KIT.

Shall update this as to whether it worked or not on Esx 3 soon.

Even if it does not, these should help speed up disk access on these still quite useable servers 😉

Have fun

Graham

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Domain down – opps

Posted on 21st June 2006 by graz27

Sorry for the site being down for a while, I forgot to renew the domain name.. Doh..

Take care all

Graham

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Whales back on the menu

Posted on 19th June 2006 by graz27

I find the news that Japan is going to kill 50 humpback whales under the loophole of “science” to be very sad and disapointing.

The very thought of how these are hunted and killed is very barbaric and cruel and the pain and suffering these go through just not seem to be fit or right under any circumstances.

Totally agree with what the Australian minister  Ian Campbell said:-

“Scientific whaling is just commercial whaling under another guise. To be hunting 50 of these endangered species is an outrage.”

And from Leah Garcés, the director of campaigns for the World Society for the Protection of Animals

“They will be using the same weapons that inflict a horrific death on minke whales. I cannot imagine what it will be like for humpbacks.”

Even if the numbers were back to what they used to be, which they are not, I still do not see any reason in the word for this needless slaughter.

Live in peace and let those that live in the oceans have the same……… 

 

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