Category Archives: DIY server

My new Clevo W240EUQ Laptop from PC Specialists

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Branedy

This is the Laptop I have moved to. No longer a Mac user, never more than a PC user and never a Windows fan. I’m now entirely into my custom built Clevo W244EUQ laptop, built to my configuration by PC … Continue reading →

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The Raspberry-PI Blinks too!

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Branedy

The Raspberry-PI is now operating like an Arduino, sorta, just not as easily or with as many GPIO ports as the Arduino.

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My Chosen ‘Case’ for my RaspBerry-Pi

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Branedy

My Case of choice arrived for my Raspberry-PI today and it looks, and works fine. As I fancy myself as a ‘Maker‘ I chose this case from www.skpang.co.uk Now which wire is connected to what pin??? The knee bone is … Continue reading →

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My New Computer

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Branedy

My new computer… Now where did I put that soldering iron….

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Rejected out of hand!

Posted on September 19, 2009 by Branedy

I find it amusing that after I submitted my sites to the Social Media Award section of The Irish Web Awards none of them has even been visited. Rejected before even viewing them. That either is an indication, that your … Continue reading →

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A Picture of a DYI Server

Posted on September 6, 2009 by Branedy

This is a mythical DYI home server that just might be in my house.

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Twitter Marketing

Posted on August 30, 2009 by Branedy

I’ve been browsing the Twitterverse for anyone discussing ‘Ideas’ or Forecasting and I’ve started following them using the @ideaforecasting twitter account. I’m hoping to stimulate some interest, or at least some hits on the ideaforecasting.com site. We’ll see. My expectations … Continue reading →

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Free Beer, not a good advertising campaign

Posted on August 23, 2009 by Branedy

In the area of advertising, outside of posting nude pictures of celebrities and offering Free Beer I’m out of my league. When I talked about my new projects to the Open Coffee Cork gang, I got what I thought was … Continue reading →

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SEO and the Robot Races

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Branedy

If you have been paying attention to this site and my attempts to join the ranks of the super wealthy. I created a DIY Server which sets under my desk at home, connected to a modest DSL line with crappy … Continue reading →

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My Query The Net Project – Part One

Posted on August 3, 2009 by Branedy

My current project, query-the.net now has a prototype, but you don’t have to visit the website, which is more or less a placeholder. Instead, use your favorite Twitter client and direct a question at @querynet {and a question} and wait … Continue reading →

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I’m at it again.

Posted on July 22, 2009 by Branedy

I must look like I’m out to buy up all the free domains in the internet, now I possess the mighty domain query-the.net! Now what to do with it, not a problem, I just have to make it happen. I … Continue reading →

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More Fleeting Thoughts

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Branedy

My new project fleeting Thoughts has more or less grown out of my other project, Idea Forecasting! However Fleeting Thoughts is a lot more modest. Fleeting Thoughts is a Twitter related application. The basic concept is that most Twitters are … Continue reading →

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When having a Fleeting Thought, spell check.

Posted on July 8, 2009 by Branedy

I was thinking, or rather having, a Fleeting Thought and decided that I had a great idea, so I sought to buy the domain fleetingthought.com, and didn’t realize I’d mistyped the name, so now I’m the proud owner of fleetingthoght.com, … Continue reading →

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ZFS, Boot Zones and data loss

Posted on July 2, 2009 by Branedy

Note to Self: One must remember not to accidently pull the power cord out of your OpenSolaris server. Somewhere between the sudden power down, and booting into different Boot Zones my MySQL database has lost records and the Apache HTTP … Continue reading →

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An Idea about Ideas

Posted on May 15, 2009 by Branedy

I’ve been working on a little Idea of my own about Ideas, and while this is more prototype than application, it works. If you are a regular reader, this is running on my DIY Server. http://ideaforecasting.com/ Be gentle with it … Continue reading →

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