My wifi has been super slow lately, often only 2 or 3 MB/s, win10 had kindly updated the driver for me. I try installing the latest killer network driver and it goes even slower >:(, just over 1 MB/s. I remove all traces of drivers for the wifi and go with a basic win10 wifi driver and suddenly I get 43MB/s !?!?! WHAT THE FUCK!!!
Firstly killer networks need to start making good drivers.
Secondly microsoft need to stop updating drivers when I don't want them too.
It's been 9 years since I bought the Merlins-Bar domain and hosting on GoDaddy. The site went live a few weeks later. We've now moved to hosting on my own server. Thanks to everyone who visits and makes this place happen :)
I've added support for HTTPS SSL Encryption to this test site. To access the secure version simply use https://test.merlins-bar.com You will likely get an warning that the certificate is self-signed and so you will have to trust it manually. Once you have trusted the certificate it will be good for 3 years and the site will be accessible securely. I might look at getting a full CA (Certificate Authority) SSL certificate but it depends how much it costs.
The renewal date for the hosting server is in about a month and I'm thinking it makes sense for me to save £100 a year and just host the site my self on a Raspberry Pi. I've been testing it running on a spare Pi ZeroW over the weekend and it's running well, if a little slowly. I'll get a new RasPi 3B+ soon to host the site.
This will mean that the upload and especially download speeds will be slower because my internet speed is only 12mbps down and 1mbps up, so downloads for you guys will be 1mbs maximum. It's not great but it's better than spending £100 for a faster speed on a hardly used website.
If all goes well we should go full time to the RasPi server with a month.
I'll post soon with a test address so you can check the RasPi server on my network for yourselves and let me know how it works for you.
I've used windows backup in the past but recently found it's been missing out things that should have been included!
I've been looking around for another backup program. I tried AOMEI Backupper which had good features for free but that seems to have random problems working with network drives. I'm currently trying Cobain Backup which also is free and has good features like differential backup, but it has suddenly failed in the middle of a back up with no useful error message.
Saw this mentioned on Kotaku today so downloaded for little play. Looks really nice although there isn't much you can do currently. It'll be worth keeping an eye on.
My alienware laptop died a sudden death today. Total power failre internally :(
I can either send it away to be fixed which will take 3 weeks or pay £30 for an engineer to come to me to fix it quicker. I've with the quicker option, but I currently don't know when they'll come.
For some reason Colonel Sanders is now a Hipster. WTF!
Of course I blame the hipsters for this, but then again I was blaming the hipsters before it was cool. ;D
