Monthly Archives: January 2015

Here is a step by step guide to set up a new development environment from scratch, to get an Android project up and running in an emulator.

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Performing Live Migration with Hyper-V Manager

Aside March 26, 2013 Mike Leave a comment

After previously having to use System Center Virtual Machine Manager for live migration of VMs, it is now possible to set up Hyper-V 3.0 for live migration directly through the Hyper-V manager console.

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Canon 6D Official

Aside September 18, 2012 Mike 2 Comments

After all the rumors, Canon finally announced their 6D entry level full-frame SLR. Check out samples on Canon’s website or for an overview and specifications, here.

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ROGERS IGNITE 250u review

Aside March 5, 2015 Mike Leave a comment

Today I switched to Rogers’ newest service, ROGERS IGNITE 250u, why the all-caps is beyond me. That is unlimited usage tier, with 250mbps download, and 20mbps upload bandwidth. It is $69.99 for 3 months, then $95 after that. I was unable to use my existing retention discount of 25% in addition to the 3 month discount, but it worked out for me to use my retentions discount as it lasts longer.

Here are the details:

ROGERS IGNITE 250u

UNLIMITED USAGE

Speeds up to:

250Mbps DOWNLOAD
20Mbps UPLOAD

But I am actually receiving significantly more on the download end, at 320Mbps!

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Technology

Catching Googlebot

Aside October 12, 2012 Mike 1 Comment

It is always nice to see unique visitors to your site. For a blog that doesn’t get too many hits, it’s very nice.

Google Analytics is a great, robust way to analyze your visitors based on various parameters such as date visited, location, etc. It produces readable charts and graphs and datasets that can be exported via the web interface.

Anaytics is part of Google’s Webmaster Tools which in itself is very useful. You provide a site map and Googlebot will crawl your site and index it. Today, I caught Googlebot in the act. Continue reading Catching Googlebot →

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Bitcoin: Data Cost

Aside October 3, 2012 Mike Leave a comment

Somehow my blkindex.dat file became corrupt the other day so I got a little nervous as I remember that one .dat file contained all my bitcoins – within a split second I realized this is the wallet.dat file so I quickly backed it up again for added piece of mind. While in the bitcoin data directory I noticed the size of the blkindex.dat file was over 1 gigabyte! And then the blk0001.dat was 2GB, blk0002.dat was another GB! Let’s not forget about debug.log – another gigabyte. Over 5GB to be able to use the currency? And how many people are using the currency? A lot. This is a problem that is inherently created due to the nature of the currency. But what are some possible solutions? Continue reading Bitcoin: Data Cost →

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