Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Power Consumption in TV's vs overall cost.

"One other trade-off against LCD is that the TV uses considerably more power. Samsung rates this TV at 4.5 stars. Our measures suggested 5.5. Either way, this is much less than current model LCDs, which are typically rated at 7 or 8 stars. This TV might cost you something like AU$100 a year more to run."
That above quote says that running a plasma TV is will cost you more per year to run and this is generally true. But then you have to factor in the original purchase price as well. have a look at the catalogue below. To Purchase the series 8 plasma it's $1996 and the series 8 LED is $3796  this plays a part in to factoring how much that TV will cost you over its lifetime..

It's still cheaper in this case to buy the plasma as even if you get 10 years out of the plasma you still come in cheaper over all when you factor in original purchase price and running costs.



What I am trying to say is that even though running costs of LED's are probably cheaper the total cost of ownership still ways towards purchasing a plasma at this stage.

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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Hyper-V Slow Network on HP DL380 G7's

I am yet to find the root cause of why the Hyper-V guests have very slow network transfers on HP DL380 G7's.. If anyone find the cause please comment.

To me it seems the Hyper-V Virtual switch is just slow on these models

I can build a desktop with Windows 8 and install the Hyper-V tools and run up desktop much faster than I can on  the HP DL380's.

Maybe it's the Broadcom cards in the server.

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Monday, February 18, 2013

4 simple steps to Install Client Hyper-V on Windows 8 via powershell


  1. Open Powershell (as Administrator)
  2. Type "Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature –FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All"
  3. Press enter. 
  4. Reboot when asked.

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Friday, February 15, 2013

Source Version mismatches and WDS breaking ERROR 1067

If you WDS service starts failing with Error 1067. You probably have corrupt WIM in you distribution point. If removing the package doesn't fix the issue you may have a stuck distribution on the DP.

Check out how we fixed this issue;

http://joejoeinc.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/sms-despooler-failed-to-merge-delta-to.html


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Sunday, February 10, 2013

Colour Run 2013



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Thursday, February 07, 2013

Raspberry PI RSS feed URL

If you want to add the new feed for Raspberry PI into your news reader (Google Reader)

http://www.raspberrypi.org/feed

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