Just renewed the site for another year but I've made a change to the web hosting package to save a few shekels. Everything should work as always but let me know if something isn't right.
Just having a lovely hail storm, the chunks are between 1/4" and 1/2". Surprisingly, and thankfully, they are fairly soft, like little snow balls.
Yesterday we had smaller but more icy hail, and then shortly after that snow, in between some nice sunny weather.
But then it is April so in the UK anything goes at this time of year :D
My computer has just decided to take the piss by suggesting now is the time to mow the lawn!?!
Finally got around to building an updates HTPC / Server for myself. I was going to go with an ultra low power system again, but seeing as the new Intel Skylake chips are so energy efficient the tiny amount of extra power consumed by the Skylake chips means you get much more power for those moments you need it.
Overall this new system shouldn't use any more power than my old Intel Atom A330ION system it's replacing.
As for updating from the old to new system it couldn't have been a bigger pain in the arse! But I've come to expect that from Windows 10.
Pretty much up and running as normal now so here's hoping for a relaxing evening in front of the TV :D
Been very cold and foggy this week in Herefordshire, thought I'd share a pic from the woods where I work. Struck me as a prime site for a horror movie :D
Make from wood that is green, as in freshly cut, not the colour :D
So I just finished a couple of greenwood chairs I've been working on. One is a rocking chair with traditional British twisted rush seat, the other is a 'walking stick' back chair with manilla rope for the seat.
I tried the standard OTA update, it got half way and had an error.
Thankfully the device was still working though.
I tried that again, same problem.
No worries I think, I'll download the factory image from google and use that to flash the update manually.
It failed, not compatible!?!
Turns out this is a common problem google can't be arsed to fix.
I get an update for the update to fix that problem and try again.
Failed! I get a weird error that seemingly is related to using a USB3 port. Not only that but now my device is booting any more, I can only get to the bootloader to try and update again.
Try again, suddenly my device isn't recognised in windows any more, how the fuck am I supposed to update this thing now!?!
Try a different, better quality USB cable. Thank fuck windows sees the device again.
Try to update using another program.
Holy shit it works...
...but my 16Gb of internal storage has become 8Gb :(
Try again.
Same shit.
Finally find information that says to Lock and then Unlock the bootloader to restore the storage size (this was only found out by accident by a guy with the same problem)
Fuck me backwards and call me Vera, it fucking works!?! And it only took 2 days of fucking around!
Boots up to Android Lollipop (5.0.2)...
...Meh, I think I liked the old version better :S
A Couple of idiots calling themselves David Zhang and Gareth Qi are trying to scam Merlins-Bar in to registering for domain names (David's service) in china to stop other people (Gareth's company) from using them.
I have wished them well and a long and happy marriage together.
Sorry I've not been around much lately, as usual my health hasn't been great.
However I've been waiting for a few weeks for confirmation of my mum having Myeloma (blood cancer) and things weren't looking hopeful, but today the results show she definitely doesn't have it which is great news :)
The doctors have now decided it is a nasty attack of rheumatoid arthritis which thankfully they can get on top of with a medication change.
I'm so relieved, it's been a bit of a tough few weeks.
