Category: general

I was always been a fan of Sony mobiles. They did a good job of making a good phone with enough power and releasing  new phones every 6 month so I can buy the older model for cheaper. I don\’t like buying 2nd handphone phones.

Any way this Christmas I was given a google pixel xl 128 GB one.  this is the most expensive phone I ever owned. I was given  google daydream view headset  (Virtual Reality) as well.

1st I\’ll write about the phone. in one word amazing. It\’s really fast. My old sony z3+ had a snapdragon 820 CPU, but google pixel felt really fast compare to my old phone. operating system on it  is amazing as well. It\’s only  had the base google apps and nothing else. GPS is amazing even is central London. it\’s picks up location very quickly.  mobile signal is pretty good as well. I can get good signal to places where I couldn\’t (with O2) with other phones.

Only downside I can think of is it\’s a big phone. I bought a Otterbox commuter case   which makes it even bigger. if you don\’t  have a case it\’s very slippery phone. google assistant wasn\’t all that, I think it\’s not smart enough for UK yet.

google daydream view is better than I expected. It will come in handy when you making those long flights.

So far I haven\’t found any issues, If I do I will update this blog post

update 10/01/2017

I really enjoy watching google daydream view. It\’s can be just a normal youtube move makes it look like you watching it on a massive screen. quality is bit off  compare to real cinema

 

 

 

Now I have a google pixel xl  phone ( Christmas present ).It\’s uses a USB-C port.  I thought I will buy a  USB-A to USB-C cable so I can use all my exiting  wall/ car chargers etc.

It\’s not easy as I thought. google play store selling that cable for £25 so I looked in to other places.  You can get them cheap but apparently they don\’t meet to USB-C spec and might damage the device or charger.  google engineer call   Benson Leung done lots of research on this.

going by what he was saying it\’s safe to buy a USB-C charger with USB-C cable with known brands.  even to buy USB-C chargers from other phones like Microsoft Lumia 950 XL chargers, you can pick them up cheap.

Moral of the story is don\’t buy the cheap cables. It wont save you money.

 

Can’t seems upgrade from widows home to windows enterprise without re-imaging

Here is the workaround

You need upgrade the windows 10 home to windows 10 pro using this specific key.VK7JG-NPHTM-C97JM-9MPGT-3V66T this will upgrade the home to pro but the key will not activate as it\’s a default key. This will take a while.

this is the link showing how to change key

Go through the same change key method but now use your legitimate volume licence windows 10 pro key to activate windows this will activate in mins

After this Go through the same change key method but now use your enterprise key (this is pretty fast as well)

after a long time, I have decided to move away from zen, it\’s weekend performance are getting worse, It was good for a while but it was slow again. last night was worse. some thing is wrong some where and they are not fixing it so I have to move

Ping monitor

speed test come up fine but when you try to get normal site, it\’s working very very slow.

IPv6 adoption
We have reached the top 10, Mainly because sky broadband, They running out of IPv4 means they deploy ipv6. next step for them to make use CGNAT on ipv4 or even NAT64,

I tested NAT64 with AAISP works really well.

I have tried using it today, Works really well, now i can have my ssh dig git etc with out using a VM works really well. still i couldn\’t install few apps but it\’s still on beta. if this go well then I might not even need to use the mac,

current mac prices I have to look in to alternatives here is the link

I started to use Mechanical Keyboards now days. work home etc. I like cherry mx blue I know few people do say it\’s loud but to me it was fine.

Their are 100s of brand out there but I prefer das 4, I been using it for a while so far no issues.

I been using WordPress from back in a days when they were b2. it was good but now time to move along to a different platform. going with http://gohugo.io/ been testing it for a while works great. less load on the server etc. will update my progress

update 4/11/2016 : I\’m going to leave this site on wordpress and going to create another one onhttp://gohugo.io/

Things must be getting desperate for Outsourced IT support companies, as I read few of their \”recommendation\”. some of them are out right lie or some things was only true in 1990s.

They still holding on to the old model where get a client make money by selling few service of their own and resell other services and make commission on the services they sell. and have retainer for the support.

Things are changing all the IT infrastructures are now going as a services model. which doesn\’t really require a IT companies to do much. every things is done by the large companies who providing that services. all you need is some one to setup the local services and monitor them but that doesn\’t require paying a company a retainer or use their support as you can call the companies direct and they will fix the issues directly.

My advice if you running a business dont waste your money on IT companies. get some independent IT consultants or get your self a IT managers who understand this things who dont resell any one service. get them to recommend few providers and read the reviews for each and select their services based on the cost or to your business need.

I think outsourced IT companies days are numbered