The site has 2 main parts.
The first is my adventures in technology. To call it a blog would be a little wrong. Its more going to be rants, how-tos and code snippets from travels in the world of technology. Most of it will be fairly technical as I am a self professed geek!
The second part of the site is my adventures in the outdoors. Which will include everything from Caving to family holidays. I will be sure to include lots of photos and gear checklists and general stuff.
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Posted In: Tech
The mass of systems
Posted at: 2007-01-07 @ 17:36:07
I have recently changed by computer setup and I thought you might all be interested in having a look.Click the photo to travel to the flickr
Gear shown in the photos is as follows:
Main computer:
AMD XP 2600 barton core
1GB Corsair DDR ram
3x300GB and 1x150GB hard drives giving 1.050TB
Leadtek Geforce FX 5600 video card
Sound blaster Audigy ZS sound card.
3x10/100 network cards
DVD burner
Server box
Celeron 333
256 MB sd ram
1x20GB hard drive.
3x10/100 network cards
Ibook
1.2Ghz G4
512MB DDR ram
20GB hard disk
DVD rom - CD burner
Dell - Latitude | D610
Pentium M 2.0GhZ
1GB ram
60GB hard disk
DVD burner
Switch
Level one FSW-1610TX
16 port 10/100 switch
Wireless access point
Linksys WAP54G
Belkin Surge Pro F9D800au-5M-ORG
AOC 17" LCD monitor 8MS
The Dell is the newer system in the setup, however that's not the interesting part.
I control all these systems from the one keyboard and mouse.
To switch from my main system to the ibook laptop I just move the mouse off the left edge of the main screen and it moves onto the laptop screen.
To move to the dell I move off the right side of the main monitor and onto the dell system.
Keyboard and mouse work prefect AND even the clipboard gets copied across, its fantastic! The program I use to do this is synergy http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/.
It runs as a server on my main box and the client system (dell and ibook) all connect in. Its totally cross platform and currently I have it running on OS X, Kubuntu linux and windows XP. I have also confirmed it works on vista.
Frankly I see this as better than dual monitors as it means I can hammer one system and still have a responsive system to use.
I have also noticed that synergys still works well when cpu load on the server system is 100%
Hope everyone had a happy new year and a nice christmas.
Later!
Caveman
Posted In: Outdoors
Trip slide show
Trip: Chillagoe Caves Expedition - 2006
Posted at: 2006-09-02 @ 18:27:00
After much procrastinating I have finally done the photo slide show.The truth of the matter is that the slide show has been done for weeks, however it took me awhile to get around to encoding it out.
The slide show comes in two formats.
H.264 (Quicktime)
Large 640x480 (35MB)
Small 320x240 (16MB)
WMV (Windows Media Player)
Large 640x480 (35MB)
Small 320x240 (29MB)
The highest quality video is the Large H.264 video.
This is also the last post about my great trip north. I hope you have enjoyed reading all the posts. If you are only new to the trip story visit the trip page