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Windows Essentials – Live Writer

Posted by: Bobby Allen on: July 5, 2009

Yesterday I decided to download the Windows Essentials pack from live.com, I’ve never really used Live Messenger as I don’t really like it, I hate having to talk to people when im busy working on stuff but anyway I’ve re-installed my PC and decided to give it ago. This blog post is written using Windows [...]

Slow connections on Remote MySQL servers.

Posted by: Bobby Allen on: November 2, 2007

Now a few of my projects are getting much bigger and the need for having dedicated Database servers are now more appealing than ever. With MySQL when setting it up I noticed that when trying to access a remote database from an application server, it would takes ages to respond/connect to it. After searching around [...]

Restoring bad sectors using CHKDSK

Posted by: Bobby Allen on: June 19, 2007

The other day my hard drive was getting really bad, Usually I just rebuild the machine with an image stored on my NAS appliance however I thought I would actually repair the drive as it was ‘trashing’ alot! So I booted the PC and got check disk to repair the drive. – All is now working smoothly again.  I [...]

BNA Online Gaming and Battle for Pallentia

Posted by: Bobby Allen on: March 17, 2007

Ok everyone, I want you to all check out my latest project, Its an online gaming community developed by me, my brother, and best mate Dave.  Please all be sure to go and check it out, Also if you could go and register on the forums and say hi For those of you who like [...]

Zune theme for Windows XP

Posted by: Bobby Allen on: February 20, 2007

Wow, last week I was looking around the net to see if I could find any cool XP themes apart from the standard ones and the ‘Energy Blue’ theme. I found this awesome theme for windows xp and is based on the new MP3 player from Microsoft… believe it or not, however the name slightly [...]

I love Firefox 2! – Thank you Mozilla!

Posted by: Bobby Allen on: January 24, 2007

I recently download Firefox 2, I must say I love it so much better that Firefox 1.x, The standard GUI is awesome, I think the Mozilla Development team have done a really awesome job with it. I would like to just post a thank you!  So thank you Mozilla for this awesome browser! It has [...]

Its snowing!

Posted by: Bobby Allen on: January 24, 2007

 Sorry I have not posted much on here recently I have been extremely busy getting my new network of web servers up and running (installing Linux, configuring, imaging, re-arranging exsisting network layout etc.) However im back and have quite alot to report on which I will do in abit! as im atwork today  Have just [...]

gaZelle

Posted by: Bobby Allen on: January 5, 2007

Recently I have been developing many Open-source applications. My key area of web application design in using the lamp server model this is a combination of and stands for: (l)inux (a)apache (m)ysql and (p)hp. All my projects are hosted on my own Linux server which I use for personal web hosting and OSS project hosting [...]

Tyger development doing well!

Posted by: Bobby Allen on: January 5, 2007

Since starting the development last weekend, Tyger have been doing really well, I have completed most of the core modules but still have to develop the Admin control panel but that won’t be too bad and also modify a few of the modules. However the system is looking really good and has some very nice [...]

Google’s 2007 Logo

Posted by: Bobby Allen on: January 1, 2007

Took a first look at Google this morning (the first time in 2007) and thought I would keep a copy of this image to share with others in the future after Google removes the logo. Here it is:-


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