Tech

Just been playing about with openVPN, and have got a multi-site network successfully working. What amazes me is the speed, we did some windows domain joining and client app transfers and they went through with no hitch, and shared folder browsing is faster than via terminal services! We love you openVPN!

At the Popular Science Blog, this entry shows a portable projector (think size of a mobile phone) in action. I want one!

I've got to say, these 3Ware Escalade raid cards are brilliant - the drivers and web-based UI are well programmed plus the performance is great - I really like it when things "Just Work"!

I've had enough of this card already... I bought it to replace our cheaper silicon image cards, only to find out that they are also re-branded silicon image cards! We have several Fujitsu Primergy servers, and one card installed fine into one of the servers, but it doesn't seem to want to work in this other identical server. If drives are attached to the card, it hangs windows2k3 startup (and safe mode doesn't work either). Disconnect the drives, and the card is fine... This is the third make of SATA RAID card that I've tried. We had some good looking Promise cards but they had bios conflicts with the Primergy's onboard SCSI Anyway, i've wasted enough time on this - we've now got some 3ware Escalade cards on order, lets hope they fare a little better.

The british government has responded to an online petition about the BBC's iPlayer on-demand TV service being windows only. As far as I can tell, there hasn't been any change bought about by the petition - the BBC had already stated that they were working on supporting other operating systems and would review this process every 6 months, which is essentially what the PM's response says.