Yearly archives: 2012
Manchester Creative Cup 2012
With the end of a thrilling Premier League season now completed and Woy Hodgson releasing the names of the 23 English players who will fail miserably at the European Championships, the only thing left to concentrate on now is this …
App of the week: Drawing the Cloud with Paper for iPad
There’s so much marketing guff about the cloud, often couched in dense, endless PowerPoints or thick PDF whitepapers. So for my talk at Business North West 2012, I decided to do something a bit different I’m always a fan of …
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Still running… #Runtime_MCR
It was late last Summer that Ben and Phil from CING Studio came over to see us about hosting and mentioned that they go running as a form of exercise with a couple of others and asked me if I …
On yer bike!
Early One Morning… It’s 7.30am and I’m getting myself ready for an experiment. Which is faster: four wheels or two wheels? I throw on my cycling gear, load up the pannier bags and roll off the driveway into the morning. …
How Do you do? Very well thank you!
We had quite a night at last week’s How Do awards! As joint headline sponsors for 2012, we were delighted to be involved in such a well-organised and well-attended event. Held in the lavish surroundings of The Point at the …
Mirroring Ubuntu 12.04 LTS – stats from a week on
If you’re a nerd like us, you might enjoy some stats from our mirroring of the latest Ubuntu release, Precise Pangolin. In the hours after we announced that our mirrors were live, we experienced an incredible traffic spike with over …
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Hosts of choice for the Jubilee Time Capsule
We’re really excited to announce that we’ve been chosen to host the Jubilee Time Capsule: a forward-thinking, revolutionary digital gift being prepared for Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee. The Jubilee Time Capsule (JTC) is asking members of the public in the …
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Why avoid London? Part 2
Earlier this week I blogged about the launch event of IXManchester, a regional Manchester peering network facilitated by the operators of the London Internet Exchange (LINX). The event was held at the BBC’s new headquarters in MediaCityUK and included presentations from …
Rolling at #MancDigiBowl
Mondays are normally the most boring night of the week, however thanks to Don’t Panic and the guys at Manual Link Building, this wasn’t the case this week! Last year Silverchip won the first ever MancDigiBowl and this year more …
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS now available on all our servers!
Good news for fans of everyone’s favourite animal-themed flavour of Linux! (that was a mouthful). We’re going to be one of the first hosting companies to offer Ubuntu 12.04 with Long-Term Support (LTS) “Precise Pangolin” on the day of release …
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