Archive for the ‘hardware’ Category
Wednesday, April 27th, 2011
BrickOS was an integral part of some work I did many years ago and I've been trying to dig the code up recently. It seems as though it fell out of the Ubuntu repositories some time ago (in as legos before the name change), so I'm currently installing the source ...
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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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