Archive for March, 2010
IoW day4: Holiday Cancelled
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Travel, Work on March 31, 2010
Those that frequent Twitter will have known that my server crashed on the 31st March, not just a single site but over 30 sites including a number of Charity sites, so my holiday was cancelled.
I setup a temporary office in the hotel room, and worked a good 12 hours on/off liaising with support teams in Germany and USA to resolve the problem…
… I really can’t remember how much coffee I had!
The weather outside although dry was extremely windy, as you can see from this shot the seas were angry…
The web server is back up again, initially it was believed that it had a fatal disk crash, but after much investigation by the support teams it was discovered that the servers BIOS had become corrupt and the OS simply couldn’t see the disk.
Once the BIOS was re-flashed the drive came back online with no ill effects, I have my fingers crossed and will continue to have them crossed for the remainder of the holiday..
IoW day3: Parting Clouds & Butterfly’s
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Travel on March 30, 2010
Well, I’m glad to say that the weather is improving all the time, it started off a bit wild as you can see;
… but the rain disappeared about 2pm, still about 7 degrees though.
IoW day2: Wet, Wild & the Art
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Travel on March 29, 2010
Today, the first full day didn’t go so well. The weather had taken a turn for the worst, it was stormy with low clouds and late afternoon the skies opened with a vengeance.
Not much to say for today, the weather was awful, so spent most of the time driving around, jumping out to take some pictures when I could;
IoW day1: Time to go.
Posted by martin newham in Holidays, Travel on March 28, 2010
The 2010 holiday starts today, left home about 10:40 to catch the ferry at Southampton at 3pm – what was I thinking! It’s only 60 miles away.
Anyway, I’m at Fleet services about 40 miles from home and it’s 12:40 so chillin’ and doing a bit of surfing on the free Wi-Fi, played a couple of online games, but I’m a little bored now.
I’m not sure how the holidays going to turn out for a couple of reasons
1. This is the 4th time I’ve been to the Isle and it’s been more and more difficult to find new attractions.
2. The weather; would you believe it snow is forecast on Wednesday ?!
Still time will tell, with my new Lumix G1 in tow I’m sure there will be opportunities for some great shots whatever the weather.
More to follow…
iPad A4 CPU May Be Nothing Special After All?
Posted by martin newham in Apple, Musings, Web/Tech on March 1, 2010
(Image courtesy of AppleInsider)
A lot of the excitement about the iPad after its unveiling at in late January had to do with its custom, Apple-designed A4 processor — but a new report says that the chip may in reality be nothing “to write home about.”
AppleInsider is reporting on the new findings by Jon Stokes of Ars Technica, who wrote over the weekend that Apple’s custom 1GHz system on a chip for the iPad is really just a single Cortex-A8 CPU with a PowerVR SGX GPU. If that sounds familiar, it’s because the Cortex-A8 CPU is the same chip used in the current iPhone 3GS — although the handset is clocked at 600MHz, while the iPad’s Apple A4 is reportedly 1GHz.
… read the full post at Mac|Life