Tiernans Comms Closet

So, in the last couple of months, its been a broadband war here. First, UPC upgrade their top connections to 20Mb. Then Magnet upgrade theirs to 50Mb, mind you only  a handfull of people can actually get it… And today, BT have upgraded theirs to 24Mb! But one very nice piece about all this: BT [...]

Last night i posted photos of the new gadgets, and this morning, flickr seems to be unresponsive… Complety dead… all the images are showing up as missing, and i cant even get to the main page… When i was uploading the photos, i got a couple of error messages saying Flickr had the Hic-cups… maybe [...]

Its wasent exactly planned, but this week and last has been a bumper 7 or so days for Gadgets for me… Last Saturday, i swapped my OQO Model 01+ for a HTC TyTN II with 8Gb SDHC and both a standard and extended battery. its a very nice device! Extreamly pleased so far with it. [...]

So, last week sometime, the blog moved back in house. This page is being served by my Mac Pro, not the dedicated server i had (canceled the account). So far, so good.
Next, the Mac Pro has gotten a memory and Hard Drive upgrade. See the following images for info:

PS: images taken with Snippy.
Finally, i am [...]

So, a couple of months back, i mentioned a company called Flexiscale who, at the time, where offering Windows and Linux Virtual machines, much like Amazon. Well, they have been emailing me a bit for the last while since my account balance is running low, so i decded to check out what had changed on [...]

i have been meaning to write this article up for a while now, but with one thing and another, its gotten delayed…And to tell you the truth, this is more a link to guides on what to look for in speakers. See, i dont know enough about speakers to tell you what to buy, but, [...]

Ok, so, this post has been delayed for quite some time. in part 1 of this series, i talked about Media. And in part 2, i talked about Photography. these where both looking forward, at what could go wrong. Well, part 3 is now looking back. The upgrade of the Mac PRo to run Win2k8Srv [...]

So, its been one of those months. busy, busy! I havent had a chance to do a lot of blogging, but, hopefully i will over the weekend. but just some quick updates on whats going on.
First, the blog, which is currently hosted in France, will be moving back home over the weekend. Its not that [...]

Right, so this is a very cool announcement! UPC, the new name for NTL, has announced 20mb broadband packages in Ireland. This is now the 2nd upgrade this year. The year started with 6mb down, 600k up. this was nice. had a 40gb bandwidth cap, i think… anyway, in March or April (cant remember off [...]