Little bits of information someone might find useful, or not
Note: This will likely work for other similar ASRock boards too (e.g. E3C226D2I), however as I’ve only got the E3C224D2I I cannot verify if it does or not. Due to the method, it may even work on other boards too. Proceed at your own risk! I recently bought the ASRock E3C224D2I motherboard for a new Home NAS build. It has an integrated IPMI controller,...
I often end up doing various bits of technical support for my relatives. Recently however, I came across an interesting issue – a relative said that their Windows 7 laptop was displaying no text whatsoever – no text on the desktop icons, no text in most applications and if you clicked the start button, nothing would appear. Connecting remotely, I...
After getting a bit fed up with OVH, I recently moved my personal server to Online.net. Like OVH, they are a French-based provider of low price, but high performance servers – great for my needs of a powerful box for all my experiments and personal web, voice etc hosting. Unfortunately, getting IPv6 working with Online.net is somewhat more involved than...
It’s always a horrifying experience to find that the backups you so carefully took previously now don’t work. Unfortunately, i’ve just run in to this problem. After sending my phone back for repair, I attempted to restore the backups I took beforehand using Titanium Backup. While it recognised the backups, every one said “1 backup. None on chosen platform”. Unfortunately,...
RSS is a classic example of a technology which relies on the client pulling data from the server, rather than the server pushing data to the client. While pull is simpler to implement, it requires the client to periodically poll the server for new content to pull. Unless you poll the server continuously, you’ll never get new data in realtime. This...
