William Rendell
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Yesterday,I rehomed two of my sisters chickens, the remaining four she had went to a friend of mine.
I often am faced with deleteing mails from MAILER-DAEMON that are going to non existant domains in my Postfix queue. Rather than manually deleting each email by hand, I now use a little script that does the job for me. All I do now is type in “delmd” without the […]
Acclaimed handset manufacturer HTC’s new HTC Desire HD and Desire Z smartphones boast of their respective striking features that enable them to stand apart from others. The HTC Desire HD comes equipped with 4.3-inch touchscreen, an 8-megapixel photo snapper with dual-LED flash and 720p video, a 1230 mAh battery and […]
High street retailer unveils Google Android-based tablet that costs just £180. Next – better known for its clothing and home furnishings range – has started selling an own-brand tablet computer running the Google Android operating system.
At last! I finally got the upgrade from 1.15.61.10 to 1.22.61.1 on my HTC Desire. That meant that I would be able to upgrade to Android 2.2 aka Froyo. Both upgrades went very smoothly and completed in about 30 mins. The first upgrade was around 20Mb in size and the […]
Yet another day has passed and still no upgrade for my HTC Desire on Orange to Android 2.2. When cheking this morning, I got the normal “Your phone is up to date There are no updates available for your phone” Its now been over a week that Orange said that […]
Some of the most popular apps written for Google’s Android phones do not tell users what data they are gathering, says a study by US researchers. Half of 30 applications studied share location information and unique identifiers with advertisers.
BT is to provide super-fast broadband to up to 90% of homes in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, in the biggest rural fibre optic roll-out in the UK to date. The project, due for completion in 2014, could provide a blueprint for future rural broadband projects. The £132m funding […]
The two firms have been locked in a legal tussle since last October, when Nokia sued Apple in the United States, arguing the iPhone-maker was getting a “free ride” on technologies patented by Nokia.
Early next week was what Orange said last week, well its now the end of “next week” and I am still waiting for the upgrade from 1.15.61.10 to 1.22.61.1 as without the 1.22.61.1 upgarde I can’t upgrade from 2.1 Android to 2.2 on my HTC Desire. Is anyone else still […]
I have just been working on a site that needs PHP 5.2 or above. The stock repositories for Centos that are provided by Virtualmin do not contain the PHP version I needed. However they do provide a Bleeding Edge packages, these must only be used if you know what you are […]
Today Miles and Mason played in 3 games at a Gloucestershire RFU mini’s tournament in Painswick, representing Tewkesbury Tigers the junior section of Tewkesbury RFC. Miles scored 2 try’s in his debut and both of them were awarded a medal, not bad for their first ever competitive Rugby outing. I […]
I still do not have the 2.2 release of Android yet 🙁 This has been posted on the Orange support site and explains what the hold up is. It states that, if you’re on version 1.15.61.10 then you’ll first need to go to an interim update of 1.22.61.1. You can […]
One of the four chicks we got back in April has made its first “cock a doodle doo” this morning, so I guess she is really a he LOL Does anyone want to give a home to a Cockerell or fancy it for a Sunday Roast?