Since our Suberhub was unfortunate enough to receive the new BUS_V2.37.13 firmware around the 21/10/14 our whole experience with Virgin Media Business Broadband has been terrible, totally a joke would sum it up quite well. Now in all fairness to NTL / Virgin Media Business, the company I work for has been with them since around 2003 / 2004 for business broadband, i’m told the company has never had any major problems in the past. I’ve worked here for over 3 years and the only issue with the internet until recently 30mins of downtime one morning. However earlier this year we upgraded from the legacy 10mbit package to fastest package available to Virgin Media Business Broadband connection available at the time, 50mbit. Part of this upgrade included our old modem been swapped for a Superhub, which is essentially a modem / router combo. In our setup the Superhub is essentially used as a modem, we have five static IP addresses which are assigned to our own router. The only thing the Superhub is doing is providing the internet connection. Wireless and any additional functionality is disabled on the Superhub. The Superhub in this configuration has worked great in our office from…
A Small 8 Bay Home Nas / ESXI Server is something I had been wanting to build for a while. Unfortunately small and 8x 3.5″ drive bays are not something that can be often found together in the same sentence when looking to build your own home NAS / ESXI Server Build. However i then found the U-NAS NSC-800 which was perfect for the job of housing my 8 Bay Home Nas The U-NAS NSC-800 featured: 8 x 3.5” SATA/SAS Hot-Swap Drive Bays 1x 2.5″ HDD/SSD Internal Drive Bays 1x PCI / PCI Express Expansion Slots 316mm x 254mm x 180mm dimensions Mini ITX motherboard compatibility The SAS breakout cables were already fitted in the case, so all I required was an actual SAS SATA / Raid controller. The most important thing here was the 8x SATA drive bays which i could fill with large 3.5″ drives with space for an internal 2.5″ hard drive / SSD for installing the OS on, or the data store for virtual machines when running Vmware ESXI in my case. The PCI Express expansion slot would be perfect for a SATA / Raid controller which would be essential to connect up the 8x drives, finally i could fit a Mini-ITX motherboard with…
Installing Windows 8.1 using your Windows 8.0 key is not as easy as it should be, Microsoft first want you to install Windows 8.0, then upgrade to 8.1 using the Windows Store, then after that install Windows 8.1 Update 1 and any Windows Updates released after that. That is a lot of wasted time both downloading and installing updates, even more so if you have a slow internet connection. However you can simply install Windows 8.1 with update 1 using your Windows 8 key. This doesn’t matter if the key is a retail key, upgrade key or OEM key this method will work perfectly fine with Windows 8 Core or Pro Editions. How to install Windows 8.1 as a clean install, without installing Windows 8.0 first. First you need a clean, untouched Windows 8.1 Update 1 ISO, if you have a Technet or MDSN subscription you can simply download the ISO’s from there like I have. If you don’t i have included the file name and SHA1 of the ISO below, along with a magenet link. To download the magnet link in uTorrent simply go File > Add Torrent From URL and copy and paste the magnet link in. Typing the SHA1 Windows…
The Nvidia ION chipset was used in affordable Intel Atom based Nettop PC’s released in 2009 onwards. Although not very powerful compared to PC’s of the time Nvidia ION based Nettop PC’s such as the Acer Revo R3600 series and the AsRock ION 330 where very popular for playing HD video. Using XBMC 720p and 1080p HD video decoding could be offloaded from the Intel Atom processor to the Nvidia ION GPU, allowing 1080p High Definition video to played back with ease on a very low powered device. If you want to install a more modern version of Windows on an Intel Atom / Nvidia ION based desktop that is perfectly possible. Windows 8 works perfectly, as does the Windows 10 preview. Windows Update contains all the drives you require to get the system running with the exception of the Nvidia ION Coprocessor Driver. Thankfully though the Windows 7 Nvidia ION Coprocessor Driver still works perfectly on Windows 8 and 10, and can be installed without installing any other older drivers. Nvidia ION Coprocessor Driver For Windows 8 / 10 Download: Download Nvidia ION Coprocessor Driver For Windows 8 and 10 32bit Download Nvidia ION Coprocessor Driver For Windows 8 and 10…
“SSL certificate problem: unable to get local issuer certificate” is an error message Wordpress kept presenting to me when i was trying to integrate my Instagram / Twitter feed in to this blog. The good news is the fix is really easy, once you know how! Basically the problem was a PHP configuration issue on my server, i needed to have a list of up to date public Certificate Authorities defined in my php.ini file. I found a list of public Certificate Authorities that were extracted from Mozilla’s root certificates file, these are used in the FireFox webbrowser. This list contained the certificates in PEM format, therefore could be directly used with curl / libcurl / php_curl, or with an Apache+mod_ssl webserver for SSL client authentication. How to fix the unable to get local issuer certificate problem: Downloaded the cacert.pem (mirror) which has been extracted from Mozilla’s root certificates file Opened your PHP.ini file, the location of this will vary depending on your configuration. Then added the following line: curl.cainfo=C:\inetpub\cacert.pem Remember to change C:\inetpub\ to the path of your cacert.pem file. As my webserver is IIS i placed the cacert.pem in C:\inetpub so IIS had access to it. After the PHP configuration has been updated re-start your webserver, you should…