The Blog of Rob Eaton » Computing http://www.robeaton.org Tales of an Englishman abroad Mon, 05 Jul 2010 16:21:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc What’s New? http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2009/06/01/whats-new/ http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2009/06/01/whats-new/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:05:32 +0000 Rob http://www.robeaton.com/?p=891 What’s New? – Well okay not much.

Work has gone crazy so I am doing long hours and trying to chill out as much as possible. This last weekend was the first break I had in the last two weeks. I have been that busy that I have not had the chance to further my search

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It’s a bit like banning libraries rather than burning all the books inside. These corporations need to embrace the technology and not just

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Okay so I am not technically doing nothing.

In fact I am busy trying to sort out my pc’s etc. I have spent the last couple of hours trying to get my blog subscription plugin to work. I had very

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I now have my new ADSL2+ broadband connection setup. I should have in theory get 24Mbps download speeds. To be honest I don’t think that will ever happen but it’s a start.

In fact it’s a pretty

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If you have visited recently you probably came across an IIS error – I have yet to have a response from the hosting company about this but it has taken a week or two of nagging to get it resolved.

There is nothing worse than someone telling

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When Flash Player movie files that stream external FLV files (Flash videos) are placed on a Microsoft Windows 2003 server and then viewed in a browser, the SWF file plays correctly, but the FLV video does not stream. These files work

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]]> http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2008/01/07/flv-embedding/feed/ 0 It’s all PC these days! http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2008/01/02/its-all-pc-these-days/ http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2008/01/02/its-all-pc-these-days/#comments Wed, 02 Jan 2008 18:38:48 +0000 Rob http://www.robeaton.org/?p=9 So I have spent the last day and a half rebuilding PC’s for my father.

I guess our house is unique in that it actually had eight seperate PC’s and a laptop!!

The majority of which were obselete or had disks that had stopped booting. By the end of the process from four machines and eight HD’s

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As you can see I have been doing some consolidation of my web sites. I have uploaded this new PHP blog, which if I do say so myself is pretty

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]]> http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2007/04/24/and-finally/feed/ 0 It’s all in the Image! http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2006/10/07/its-all-in-the-image/ http://www.robeaton.org/index.php/2006/10/07/its-all-in-the-image/#comments Sat, 07 Oct 2006 10:34:09 +0000 Rob http://www.robeaton.org/?p=46 Well Howdy!

I have been very busy since I wrote last. Last weekend saw the arrival of spring here in NZ. With the clocks going forwards we had temperatures up to 25c. You can’t complain really!

I have been busy over the last couple of weeks trying to remove the massive backlog of photos from my pc’s.

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