Rob Holmes

C’mon..again?

Rob Holmes — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:28:05 +0000

So I finally got round to painting my calipers and fitting my mud flaps i so kind got from my dad for my birthday. Also thanks a lot to my dad for helping me fit them! Cheers!

There should be another update on the car soon, and..and! I have a new PC! Yes the Cosmos is nearly done! More on that soon.

You like? C’mon!

Rob Holmes — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 18:31:37 +0000

Kinetic energy transportation device upgrade

Rob Holmes — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:57:26 +0000

So I decide to add a little bit to my Corsa D, just some VXR indicator surrounds. I also installed some LED foot-well lights but don’t have any pics yet of them.

My new kinetic energy transportation device

Rob Holmes — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:48:19 +0000

Yes that’s right! I have a new CAR! Woot, I have been running round in my old T reg Vauxhall Corsa 1.2 16v Breeze 5dr for 2 years now and it was my first car. It was a good little car and lasted me well, but the time came for a change. I do a lot of miles for my job now and needed a car I could trust to start in a morning and get me home at night. Also I wanted to look COOL in a newer car! So here it is!

This is my 2007 Vauxhall Corsa 1.2 16v 5 Door Design! In red! It has loads of cool gadgets like automatic wipers and headlights, electric mirrors and windows, steering wheel controls, air-con and 17″ Low profile alloys! Its great to drive and loving it so far. Anyway, more soon, I hope.

Auto Install with Ninite

Rob Holmes — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 10:22:27 +0000

I am often reinstalling computers or even building new computers and find that I can build the computer a lot faster than I can install windows, drivers and software. So I have set about finding and creating tools to help me get a computer to a ready state to use. Windows now installs using a unattended file and updates from my WSUS server using 2 bats files to switch between WSUS and Windows Update server. Today I was building another computer, and remembered that I had come across a auto install program a few weeks back. After a bit of googling I found Ninite. Using the website you can create a installer tool that downloads and installs the software silently (IE with no user input). I tried it out today and it worked GREAT, downloads and installs very fast. I created the following package LINK. This contains:

Basically some great free software that pretty much every PC can can do with. So do look in to it! Its worth it!

*A special message to SubSeeter today as its his birthday, he is 3… I mean 20 (I think :s), have a great day and see you later!

F1 is back! BBC 1 Saturday 10:10am and Sunday 11:10am

Rob Holmes — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:53:16 +0000

F1 is back in 2010! Starts 13th March 10:10 on BBC1

TF2 Dub

Rob Holmes — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:04:47 +0000

Found this great video and thought I would share it with you all!

RAID0 – Is it worth it?

Rob Holmes — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:16:21 +0000

Yes…

No I’m joking its not that simple. When I setup my new RAID0 arrary all that time ago I did some tests with 1 drive and then 2, to see if RAID0 was worth it. And here are the results.

That is with 1 None RAID Seagate F3 500Gb

That is with 2 Seagate F3′s in RAID0

There is 1 drop which I think is to do with the RAID controller that is used, otherwise its a lot higher transfer rate.

This is just the first bit of information on this. I am hopefully going to get the rest up later, or some else might

Server Upgrade – HDDs and TV Cards

Rob Holmes — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 16:59:42 +0000

About 4 weeks ago I upgraded my server after we got Freesat put in. I put in a old 320Gb SATA2 HDD I had spare form my RAID upgrade (Checked and all working now) and 3 TV cards, yes 3. I don’t think I will ever get all 3 working or need all 3 but we will see. The latest is a Prof 7301 PCI DVB-S card for the freesat connection (Its signal tuner even tho it has dual F connectors, 1 in, 1 out). Then I have some old analog tuners form back in the day. I also installed a ‘small’ fan just to help a bit with cooling, its only small but will do.

I haven’t ‘yet’ managed to get them all working. I’ve had bad look with TV cards (Hence why they are spare) and it isn’t changing. I am trying to use Media Portal but as I am using Windows Server 2008 on the server it seems to be coursing problems. I will try and fix it someday but for now BBC iPlayer will have to do.

BTW sorry for the lack of updates but due to my new job! WOOT I am no longer able to keep up to date with updates on here, but fear not because I am getting more time now I am settling in to the job and hopefully getting a little help posting updates form a Mr Shakey. More on that soon!

Ergotron MX LCD desk arm

Rob Holmes — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 13:19:26 +0000

I got this Ergotron MX LCD desk arm for Christmas after the great review on Neowin. So here is a few pictures:

Mounting it was a bit hard due to the ‘troff” down the back for the cables, but we used the metal that fixes to the bottom as a wall mounting one, made a slot in the lat fixed to the wall and slotted it in. Then put a angel bracket on the front mounting hole of the metal plate underneath to stop it pulling off the wall. It now needs the slot filling in to hold it a bit more. The cable are also able to flow under the mount without having to go over. Great job Dad!