Just had a call that another server has gone down! We think lightening overnight is the culprit. Bang goes the PDC complete with DHCP and DNS services. It’s amazing how many bits of a network rely on one small server. Without DHCP none of the clients can get an IP address or default gateway –… Continue reading

It is dead, it is an ex PC… It’s a bit like buses really. You know the line: none for ages, and then you two together. Another client has suffered a hardware failure: this time it is the hard disk. Getting the new disk was the easy bit, putting back all the applications, printers etc… Continue reading

It’s been ‘one of those days’ – you know the kind, when the server in the corner that you never think about stops thinking for itself! The SnapServer today became an ex-server. I traced the fault to the PSU – problem is, being a 1U rackmount server the PSU is a special slim version. No… Continue reading

Doing personal web sites is a never ending task as each little nugget of information that is learned must be applied somewhere; every change in fashion assimilated; every cool hack found a use for. Not all are for the better, but with each one a little more is learned through application, and that is the… Continue reading

Having read the book (Designing with web standards), wideplace has had a thorough makeover. As the last of my primary sites to lose tables it has also benefitted from the understanding gleaned from concepts such as ‘semantic markup’ and separation of presentational markup. There’s still some fine tuning to do and one two more pages… Continue reading