The Shit Network

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It’s been a busy few weeks!

I’ve been moving a project that I’ve been working on for about a year now to new hosting, and migrating the site from a single WordPress to a multisite. What project is it? Well, you may have heard of it! It’s the Shit London series of websites and books.

The project was started by my cousin, Patrick Dalton, as a Facebook group where users could upload and share photos of the grimey under belly of London. The photos were often hilarious, and the group absolutely took off, so much so that it demanded a dedicated blog which is where I stepped in.

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Horse Riding

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Following an hour beginners hack around Christmas in the Lake District, I had my first proper horse riding lesson today. It was excellent, thoroughly enjoyable and tiring. The next one is booked already though! I’ll be doing jumps in a month (don’t hold me to that).

Cloning a hard drive in Windows 7

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Cloning a hard drive is an especially useful thing to do if you wish to replace your existing hard drive. I recently did this and upgraded from my 7.2K 1TB Western Digital drive to a 120GB OCZ Agility 3 SSD (it was absolutely worth it by the way!).

This is how I did it…

I used a really useful tool cooled Reflect. It is quite tricky to find the free version of it these days, but to help you out here is a link: Macrium Reflect Free Edition. I’ll do my best to keep the link updated…

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Remotely connecting to your NAS with FileZilla FTP client

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I have had a few questions posted on a previous post, “Setting up port forwarding on a Virgin Media SuperHub with a Zyxel NSA310 NAS” that ask about how to connect to the NAS remotely after setting up port forwarding. This post is a quick guide for using the FileZilla FTP CLIENT to do this.

FileZilla is cross-platform compatible so you can follow this guide using the FileZilla client on Linux, Mac OSX, or Windows.

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Coding app on the iPad

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Like many other I have just purchased an iPad 3, and yes the retina display is very beautiful. Having never owned an iOS device before I have spent the majority of the last two weeks spending a fortune on the App Store. Whilst populating my iPad with useless apps, I too a look at the availability of apps for writing code, preferably with an option for SFTP access to a remote server.

The selection is rather limited, however the following are the best options that I found.

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Force removing icons from Launchpad

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The standard method for removing app icons from the Lion Launchpad is to hold the left mouse button over the app icon, wait for the cross to appear in the corner of the app icon, and then click it!

In some cases however app icons can become orphaned, for example if you use on Steam on Mac, deleting local content to uninstall a game will not remove the game icon from Launchpad. This leaves you with an unusable orphaned icon that seems invincible and does not appear in the Application folder along with the rest of your apps.

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Installing VMware Tools in a Centos / Scientific Linux / Red Hat guest

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Installing VMware tools in a rpm based guest can sometimes be tricky. Here is a quick and dirty guide to help you install VMware tools and get the most out of your Linux guest.

Getting Started

Of course the first thing you will need is a VMware software product (depending on your OS) capable of running guests. I use a Mac Book Air circa 2011 running Lion so I have VMware Fusion installed. You can get it from here if you also run a Mac: VMware Fusion. If you’re running Windows or Linux have a look at their products page to select the best option for you.

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ITIL v3 Foundation training

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This weekend I will be undertaking ITIL v3 Foundation training in Reading (at a go-kart centre!).

The aim is to improve my service delivery management skills, and improve my knowledge of best practice around documentation such as an SLA.

I hope to better understand the service lifecycle, an to put that understanding into practice when dealing with our large CatN clients and, hopefully, Central government.

UPDATE: During the excellent training with Smatra, we had a Saturday lunch time Go-Karting session. Here is the video.

NetFlix US content in the UK

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In the UK our choices are limited when it comes to streaming movies and TV series. There are two real options for main stream media, LoveFilm and NetFlix. Bear in mind that I am referring to the UK version of Netflix, recently launched.

Having trialled both on their 30 day free trials it is difficult to decide between the two. Both have advantages and disadvantages but my main points are as follows:

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