Darren Straight's Blog

ICT Enthusiast and photographer.

By - Darren Straight

My website is now all ok at hosting-unlimited

Well My Website and Blog along with all my sub domains are finally back up once again after my hosting company Hosting Unlimited (hosting-unlimited.net) had server difficulties as detailed in my previous posts, which I managed to write in between them remapping the server and then taking all the sites offline to restore the most recent backups from the 4th

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Update about downtime at hosting-unlimited

Another update has just been posted a Hosting-Unlimited.net in regards with the recent downtime of sites hosted with them on their Cassandra server: ** UPDATE 14:45 hrs** Unfortunately, this has failed. Here is the course of action which is now being taken, which despite taking some time, is the quickest and safest course available 1. The primary drive is being

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My Site and Blog Downtime at hosting-unlimited

For the past 20 hours my site and all sub domains have been down along with other members hosted on the Cassandra Server (hu-cassandra.com :: 67.15.24.39) at the hosting company Hosting Unlimited (hosting-unlimited.net) Luckily enough it’s up now but many users are not happy because of the lack of communication and announcements they made on the forums of there main

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20 years today the Titanic wreck was captured on film.

Did you know that it’s now been 20 years today since the first Pictures of the Titanic were released, here’s an archived article from the BBC Website about it: 1985: Titanic wreck captured on film The first pictures of the wreck of the Titanic have been released 73 years after the liner sank with the loss of 1,500 lives. The

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Ballmer Throws A Chair At “F*ing Google”

A reliable source has passed along a legal document in the ongoing lawsuit between Google and Microsoft over Google’s hiring of Kai-Fu Lee. The document is the “Declaration of Mark Lucovsky” in the case. Lucovsky was a distinguished engineer at Microsoft who defected to Google in November of 2004. His statement makes for some pretty interesting reading, to say the

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Dig a hole to the other side of the earth.

Have you ever wondered where you would end up if you dug a whole straight down through the middle of the earth to the other side? If like me you have and your curios to know what’s on the other side if you dug a big hole straight down then here’s an application that uses Google Maps to show you

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New MSN Home Page Under Construction

Msn is currently developing a new version of its homepage which is currently located at x.beta.msn.com, it’s not fully functional yet and most of the information on there is fake though you can still play around with some of its features like the +/- buttons to hide and unhide headlines, it doesn’t look like this will be replacing msn.com anytime

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Worms and Lemmings comming to the PSP

The two classic games, Worms and Lemmings will be coming to the PSP, I don’t think I will be getting a PSP, but I’m still very happy to see these two games come out for it, games like this should not be left to die. Check the following links out for the most recent news on them: Team17 Site Team17