Tiernan's Comms Closet

BITS transfer over Remote Desktop with Powershell

tiernano — Fri, 25 May 2012 23:48:45 +0000

So, I have a dedicated server and the machine acts as a Hyper-V host. Only Remote Desktop is enabled on the box, for security, but the VMs have their own ports open (HTTP, SSH, etc). Transferring files between the Dedicated …

Infinite Monkey Twitter

tiernano — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:35:43 +0000

The Infinite Monkey Theorem states: a monkey hitting keys at random on a typewriter keyboard for an infinite amount of time will almost surely type a given text, such as the complete works of William Shakespeare. This made me think… …

Tiernan’s Podcast, Episode 1

tiernano — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:46:13 +0000

So, my new podcast is now live! I am a podcaster again! for the next 3 weeks (Today, Tuesday 20th and Tuesday 27th) a new episode will auto publish. If you want to get them on your iPod, iPhone, i(Insert …

5+ Screens and a cloud

tiernano — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 14:08:14 +0000

Microsoft have talked about their idea of “Three screens and a cloud” for the future of computing. The idea is you have your PC (Laptop or Desktop, or Tablet once Windows 8 ships), your Smart Phone and your TV with an …

New Backup plan… out with Jungle Disk and ZManda Cloud Backup, in with CrashPlan, MySQLBF and SqlBF…

tiernano — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:42:48 +0000

[UPDATE: After a few days, i tried CrashPlan Pro on a 30 day trial... Now i find out that its not available outsite the US and Canada... Its a bit hiden in their FAQ... So, back in search i go!] …

Using Dropbox as a personal Git and Mercurial Storage area

tiernano — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 11:27:39 +0000

This is something i have been using for a while now, and though it might be an idea to write a quick post explaining how to set Dropbox up as a folder to push your Git and Mercurial files to… …

RIP Steve

tiernano — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:23:29 +0000

Today is a sad day. RIP Steve Sent with my iPhone.

More on Desktop in the Cloud

tiernano — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:53:33 +0000

So, today an email came accross my inbox, which, in one way, i though should be marked as spam, but in another way, though it was an interesting idea, so i checked it out… Now, just to make things clear: …

Just about 3/4 of the year though Review…

tiernano — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 17:35:52 +0000

Right, so at the start of the year, i wrote a post on the things i wanted to do this year… Oddly enough, one of them was not blog more, which is something i haven’t done anyway… That post, which …

Apple’s iCloud: Purchased Music (and Music Videos) and Apps now live

tiernano — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 21:10:49 +0000

So, Apple announced a few things today at the WWDC. iOS5, and iCloud. I could talk about Lion (and how they are killing the DVD install and only making it available to download by the App Store) or iOS (And …