Archive for the ‘hardware’ Category
Monday, February 15th, 2010
Among the old computers that end up on my desk is a Pentium MMX 233MHz PC from ... I don't know, the dawn of time, probably. It can't have been made any later than late 1990s. I use it for testing code behaviour on low-resource systems. It did have Slackware ...
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Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
The complaints from the kids were finally overwhelming. Their VCDs and DVDs kept 'sticking' and restarting, but seemed to play OK in our PCs. I couldn't bear the thought of replacing the DVD player, I can't help thinking it's next week's antique. We have an old LG TV for the ...
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
Still frantically trying to get Spinneret into shape for a first open-source release. I'm also working on a new project that I'm quite excited about, which is providing plenty of examples of where Spinneret could be improved!
The new project is hosted on a VPS at VPSLink (recommended, so far!). Today's ...
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Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_360" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Canvey Island postcard from www.canveyisland.org.uk"][/caption]
I'm an eternal optimist. I went to the UK a few weeks ago for a party with some old friends in Lancaster, but stayed first with my parents on Canvey Island. Canvey Island has its detractors, but I grew up there and ...
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Sunday, April 5th, 2009
[caption id="attachment_281" align="alignright" width="280" caption="slamd64 - 64bit Slackware"][/caption]
slamd64 is Fred Emmott's 64bit Slackware project. I installed it on a couple of servers that provide the bulk of the processing power behind spider.my recently. Just like installing Slackware, installing slamd64 on a server is a matter of downloading the first CD ...
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