Hello,
I am an experienced IT Professional most recently employed as an IT Engineer at a technology company in Dundee (previously as an Operations Analyst at D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd and Systems Administrator in the gaming industry at Realtime Worlds).
Recent Blog Posts
Office 15, the next iteration of Office, has been made available to selected partners via the Technical Preview program. That in itself is fairly unremarkable (for more info read the official announcement on the Office Blog) but there is something in the blog that seems to have gone widely [more]
Planning 30th birthday celebrations
In September I'll be 30. It's a milestone for most people and so myself and a group of seven friends (four of who are also 30 this year) have decided that to celebrate we shall take a trip in October - it falls pretty much in the middle of all our birthdays, and a number of them are Teachers. [more]
Cisco AnyConnect, OS X and Firefox
When I started work at brightsolid one of the tasks given (or rather one of the tasks I gave myself) was to get the Cisco AnyConnect client working on OS X. The symptoms are not very helpful in diagnosing the issue, the error you get will be something like "posture assessment failed". [more]
Problem with Personal Hotspot on iOS 5
Having a busy week since upgrading to the iPhone 4S I hadn't thought to test everything I had before the upgrade. The most important things worked so it wasn't a big deal. That was until yesterday when I tried to use Personal Hotspot with my iPad. It was epic fail, the option was gone. I don't [more]
This post has been pending for a long while, I finished rebuilding my home server in May. It went pretty smoothly but there were some hiccups along the way, some doubt in the products I had bought and so on. All turned good in the end though. The setup is as follows: Fractal [more]
Seagate Momentus XT 500GB Hybrid
I bought one of these on the 31st of January, and today completed an RMA to get a replacement. It looks like the controller board has gone as the disk spins up but it's not detected in the BIOS. I could say don't buy these Hybrid drives but in this case it may have nothing to do with the [more]
AirPrint, Ubuntu and a Brother Printer
Hello again, If you read my last post about using an Ubuntu server as a Time Capsule then you already have most of the key elements to get AirPrint up and running in place. If you don't need Time Capsule then the pre-requisites are: Avahi CUPS That's it. So once you have them installed [more]
Backing up using Time Machine to an Ubuntu server
Hello! I decided last night that I wanted to get a couple of Apple things working on my network. I want to backup my MacBook Pro with Time Machine on to an Ubuntu Server. And I want AirPrint working with my shared printer. In order to get Time Machine working I need an AFP share (I'm [more]
