We’ve really taken a giant leap forward in our hosting services from Higher Sites with the introduction of a new server farm. It’s been 6 months in the planning and testing phase, and on the 1st June the servers were installed into a datacentre in Manchester where we have rented a cabinet. Suffice to say […]
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Three next-gen consoles, two of which I own. The web is thoroughly saturated with enthusiastic gamers swearing allegiance to one of the mighty three to the total exclusion of all others. Personally, I think what we have here are three different, and very nice, consoles to choose from - it’s a buyer’s market, and most […]
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I bought the Sony Vaio FS315S just over a year ago, and was initially impressed with the quality of construction and general performance of the machine. I looked after it and used it regularly until I bought my MacBook Pro, at which point it was used in my company.
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Man these things are shoddy. In fact, pretty much all Linksys kit I’ve used in the past two or three years has failed. I’ve had 3 wireless access points just stop working. Hard resets and reconfigures can bring them to life for increasingly short periods before they fail again. Eventually the damn things just won’t […]
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I’ve been trying to decide between a MacPro desktop to replace my aging G4 PowerMac, and the MacBook Pro 17″ for some time. I finally came to the decision to go with the MacBook Pro, on the basis that it would not only replace my G4, but also my Sony Vaio machine, as I can […]
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