Darren Beale

Making Windows Server 2003 suck less when rebooting

At the office I run a single Windows 2003 server which also runs Exchange 2003. It has a fat amount of RAM and 4x large SATA disks. Everything else the businsess needs - a number of Linux servers - run as VM Ware virtual machines on the server. Anyhoo, it takes the machine 20 [...]

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Chilli power

Last year, soon after we moved, I bought 2 chilli plants at a Malvern farmers market. Off the back of those 2 plants - 1x Jalepeno and 1x Scotch Bonnet - I got about 50 fruits each, yummy! Well this year I’m having a go at growing my own. I got 50x ‘Bolivian Rainbow’ and [...]

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Mochikit Widgets

I’ve been using Mochikit extensively for some heavy interface development work that i’ve been doing recently. Well I needed a ’slider’ widget for sizing some elements on-the-fly and was hoping not to write my own. Luckily I stumbled across UI4Web which used Mochikit as a base and supplies out-of-the box a slider control, amongst others. I had [...]

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Why I didn’t like Center Parcs

Cathie and I spent last week at Center Parcs, Penrith, in the Lake district with the kids. If I had to sum it up in one word then without question that word would be Babylon. It would be an understatement to say that I didn’t rate the experience: it was overpriced - but I was expecting [...]

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