New Jet v1.1.1 theme released!

Version 1.1.1 of our Jet Wordpress theme is now live!  This is our latest design based on our brand new redesign of Jethost.  Its crisp, clean, easy on the eyes, and looks great!  A light flowing smooth layout with a crisp and clean look.  Theme options include settings for the sidebars such as location, visibiliity (left/right/hidden/visible), and size.  Its also ad-sense ready and very easy to edit and customize.

Jet v1.1.1 Wordpress Theme

This release includes a LOT of bugfixes over v1.0 as well as a great new feature within the theme-options to specify the width of the sidebars!

-J. Miller

Major Change within the IT and Business Landscape

MySQL is quite well known as its one of the most popular open-source database systems utilized around the world today. We use it quite heavily within SAFI… as do many IT and non-IT companies. Unfortunately a large marjority of MySQL users will have never heard of Sun Microsystems and Oracle.

The recent $7.4Bil. (USD) buyout of Sun Microsystem’s by Oracle is going to have repercussions that are felt across the entire Info. Tech. landscape worldwide.  Changes will be seen and their effects cast upon both the hardware and software sectors of IT; in addition catching many other businesses and end-users outside the IT industries in the midst. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Safitech v1.7 Wordpress Theme Released

Version 1.7 of SafiTech is now live @ http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/safitech/

You can make any comments or request changes etc within our community forums now online at http://forums.safitech.com/.  We’ve now broken the 5,000+ download mark and are continuing to climb towards 10,000!

**v1.7 Updates Include**

–Max of ‘2′ Sidebars.
–Theme Options Added: Sidebar Location ‘left/right’
–Theme Options Added: Sidebar Visibility ‘hidden/visible’
–Complete Base Code Re-Write.
–IE7/8 Compatibility Fixes

http://johnmiller.info/

New Zealand Networks Review

Here’s my review of New Zealand’s nationwide domestic and commercial networks and their utilization since my arrival. Due to the strict nature with which ISP’s protect their network overhead and utilization levels I can’t get into specific numbers, but I can speak on what I have been told, seen, and experienced during my time here.

  • What Goes Around Comes Around!

First and foremost New Zealand is currently in the early stages of for lack of a better term ‘de-monopolization’ within the transit service provider industry. I equate it to what happened with the British Telecom (BT) and the UK back around 2000. Originally 90% or so of the major networks within New Zealand were owned/operated by Telecom, along comes Telstra (from AU I think) and begins to put a little push against Telecom. This created a little bit of competition within the market and brought prices for data down a little bit. Fast forward 5-10yrs or so to the present and we’re now finally seeing a very good diversification of backbone and tier1 providers coming in and challenging the old “big iron” of the past. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Safitech v1.6.1 Wordpress Theme Released!

Need to find yourself a nice clean Wordpress theme that is easily modified, easy on the eyes, and looks great?  Look no further… With 3000+ downloads you can’t go wrong!

safitech-v161

http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/safitech

Today the latest update to our Safitech theme has been released.  This new version 1.6.1 includes all the great jQuery Lavalamp menu goodies that was int he previous version as well as a couple new additions. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Welcome to 2009!

Goodbye to 2008!

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If Santa bought himself a laptop… he ordered a Lenovo w700ds!

I’m rarely impressed by all things hardware related, especially when it comes to the design or user interface; as not a lot has changed enough to suprise me over the last 5-10 years. I was happily surprised today when I read the above review and started looking more at the actual specs and design of this new notebook series from Lenovo(IBM). [Read the rest of this entry...]

Microsoft SQL Server ErrorLogs and Transaction Logs Eating Your Storage?

Is your server’s c:\ running out of space due to MSSQL service writing insanely large log files?  Yeah Ok… While this can be quite annoying, if this is all you have to worry about all day enjoy your free time.  Relocating the log files is something you can do pretty quickly; and you can get this done with limited downtime.  Of course non-peak off hours are the best time for any system enviroment changes as this.

So lets see what options you have… [Read the rest of this entry...]