We have now arrived home after another day at Channel Expo 08.

During our time in Birmingham we discoved that in New Street Station thee is a lift which only goes down, you have to take this to go to the sub way then walk along the corridor and then take the other lift to the main concourse.

During the Expo 08 event we talked to Cisco, Grisoft, Norman, Eset, NComputing, Webroot to name just a few and i am hoping that the trip was worth it as i have discoved a lot of new devices.

Today we have visited the NEC Hall 19, for the Channel Expo 2008, we have seen many firms, taked to Cisco over a Wireless network deployment.

We have walked bloddy miles! today.

The view from the hotel room is loverly… If you like brick walls!

He have safely arrived in Brum!!

Found the hotel, the local off license, and the hotel bar for our supplies of Irish Whiskey.

Natives are very friendly!

Still trying to learn they lingo!

Off to the NEC tomorrow to get as many freebies and possible. which could end up on ebay!

Until tomorrow that is the lot!

I have discovered that the reason it was getting near to over 50 spam messages a week on this blog, i had the plugin akismet installed on the server but i had never opened a wordpress account on www.wordpress.com and aquired a api key which fully activates the server.

I have also upgraded wordpress to the latest version and added a wee clustermap.

I have been purchasing a new laptop over the last new days.

It’s the Toshiba Tecra M9L-149, its specfication is below/

• Processor - Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 / 2.2 GHz ( Dual-Core )
• RAM - 2 GB (installed) / 4 GB (max) - DDR II SDRAM - 667 MHz ( 2 x 1 GB )
  
• Hard Drive - 120 GB - Serial ATA-150 - 5400 rpm
• Operating System - Microsoft Windows XP Professional
• Screen - 14.1′ TFT active matrix 1280 x 800 ( WXGA ) - 24-bit (16.7 million colours)
• Optical Drive - DVD±RW (±R DL) / DVD-RAM - removable plug-in module
• Graphics - Intel GMA X3100
• Warranty - 3 years warranty

It also has an amazing 5 hour battery, which if it works will be excellent for remote and working on the train. I am also planning on installing via Virtual PC 2007, so i can run <spits> Vista </spits> and some Linux distros, on an external hard drive. Hopefully by this time next week i will have the laptop and it will be connect to the server!

Over the last few days there has been a lot happen,

1. I went to a AVG training day and discovered a lot of usful information, a few features over the nest year or so,
2. I have finally got Smoothwall installed (but dont know if its working, or how to configre it) i think this is due to that fact i only have one NIC installed, so will try with too soon.
3. I have bought a new pc monitor 28″!!!!!!m which is taking some getting used to but i am getting there

4. Bought a new digital camera. i bought a Kodak V1233, its a 12 megapixel HD lightweight camera which is excellent for when i dont what to carry my SLR arround.

Not much else has happened, but thats just a quick update for now i will try and expand of this later. Continue reading this post…

Today i installed linux and vista on a system which i now have a nice dual boot fully working. i am sure that this is the end of the list of jobs for this month i blogged about. so i will need to find some more jobs todo.

I will soon be touring the country, i will post more about in a few days.

I have now sucessfully done one for the jons which was on the list for this month, i can now print when i am out of the office on the printer in the office.

It looks like i wont have time today to install Linux as i have a busy morning, then i will be fixing computers and coding all afternoon. So i’m unsure as to when it will be installed.

I am also working on a project for a Fashion Show, for a local Nation widestore.for those whating to know which store it is opposite to the local cathedral.

Hopefully my meeting in the morning will be very helpful for the business. I will let you know tomorrow or when I know.