Posts Tagged ‘HP’
September 2024
Pupdate The bad/sad news at the start of the month is that Milo’s back on chemotherapy; though it seems to be going well, and we’re already almost at the end of the first cycle. Apart from that the boys enjoyed some long walks before the weather turned. Navy Reunion It’s been 35 years since a […]
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Saturday was very rainy, so I thought I’d finally get around to upgrading my home lab from ESXi 5.5 to 6.5. I started with my #2 Gen 8 Microserver as I don’t have any live VMs on it, and thus began many wasted hours of reboot after reboot failing to get anything to work. Slow […]
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Tags: Flash, Gen 8, HP, HPE, iLO, iLO 4, ILO4, Microserver, NAND, reformat, slow, USB
Laser Printers
My family prints a lot[1] – about 1200 pages/year, which is why I made the decision almost a decade ago to switch from inkjet to laser. Inkjets weren’t just costing me a fortune in ink; they were also costing me a fortune in printers because they kept clogging up and failing in various ways. I […]
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Tags: 1320C, 2420DN, Dell, HP, inkjet, laser, LaserJet, printer
After all of the noise surrounding Apple’s special relationship with Intel when it first launched the Macbook Air the IT press have been strangely quiet about it ending[1]. Intel’s 6th generation ‘Skylake‘ Core CPUs have been out for a few weeks now, and it seems like the only machines you can buy them in come […]
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Tags: apple, Core, Dell, Gen6, HP, Intel, lenovo, Microsoft, Skylake, Surface, ultrabook
I fell into a trap with my new Gen 8 Microservers like this: Install 60 day trial license for iLO Advanced Update BIOS date/time Find that trial license has now expired :( There really should be some sort of warning on the license page (and maybe also the serial/password tag) to say update your clock […]
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Tags: default, factory, Gen8, HP, iLO, Microserver, reset
Gen8 Microservers
TL;DR I’ve been a fan of HP Microservers since the original NL36 model. When the newer Gen8 servers came to market they were a bit pricey, but the cost has come down, and cash back deals have returned. Faster CPUs, larger official memory capacity, dual NICs and remote console capabilities makes these ideal for a […]
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Tags: CPU, ESXi, Gen8, HP, iLO, license, Microserver, NAS, RAM, ZFS
HP 650 Business Laptop – review
Since the screen failed on my wife’s Lenovo s10e netbook (and I turned it into a TV attached media player) she’s been using my old s10e, but that’s been on its last legs for a while too. The time had come for something new, with a full sized keyboard and screen. I’ve been looking around […]
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Tags: 650, business, EFI, HP, laptop, review, ssd, Start8, UEFI, WEI
Another Microserver
After switching to using my tablet PC as my main machine I was missing the local storage and optical drive from my desktop. The solution was to get another HP Microserver to be a sort of sidecar when I want the extra drives. As the HP cashback deal is still on this is a surprisingly […]
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Tags: 2008R2, codec, divx, hibernate, HP, iSCSI, Media Player, Microserver, transcoding, video, Windows
Review – HP Microserver
This might well be the bargain of the decade, and I must say that I’m quite cross that the news took so long to find me. A couple of days after I bought my NAS a friend tweeted: I asked Leslie how it was so cheap. It turns out that the (ex VAT) price was […]
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Tags: HP, Microserver, review
OK. I very nearly bought a new tablety netbook earlier in the year, and I’d still like an s10-3t (or similar)[1], but I’m in no hurry to buy a new netbook and here’s why. Netbooks are good enough. They’re good enough for web surfing. They’re good enough for watching SD video (maybe even 720p if […]
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Tags: Asus, HP, iPad, lenovo, netbook, s10-3t, s10e, tablet
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