Every so often I see something on Kickstarter/Indiegogo and think “I really need that, it’ll be incredibly useful”, and so far, that has been true for this, the reMarkable tablet. Essentially, it’s like a really big Kindle that you can write on, that sync’s to the web and your desktop. But there is more… The […]
We had a couple of servers that were themselves reporting as connected @ 1G/FD and also the same for the switchports they were connectd to. Yet iperf between the two boxes was pretty pants – about 34MBits/sec. So I had a think and looked up how to test the cable lengths, which also showed me […]
After many years of struggling with trying to get my AppleTV (mk1) to a state where the surround sound actually works, I finally have it solved. The answer was, buy a new surround decoder box. So now I have a nice, shiny Yahama A/V amp that decodes AC3 and DTS from the optical output of […]
This was driving me crazy! Whenever I unplugged the device from usb and then pressed the power button to turn off the screen, the thing would turn itself off! What I found was, me using SetCPU to clock the Tab down to 100MHz when screen off, was actually causing the problem. so the solution was […]
So recently I bought myself a Samsung Galaxy Tab as it’s “not an iPad”, holdable in one hand and runs the same version of Android as my HTC Desire Z. Slightly more recently than that, I went a bit crazy and bought a number of the accessories, including the keyboard dock. Today I discovered that […]
I had this plan for doing a tip of the day, as I have this week come across some small but useful things to share with the world. So here they are on the Saturday. Tuesday: In Windows 7, Right-click on a scrollbar and it’ll give you a context menu. Then you can press ‘T’ […]
…as in anytime, anyplace, anywhere… After reinstalling storey (my net-facing machine) with xubuntulast weekend, last night and today I was having another go at getting ampache (the web-based mp3 cataloguer and player) working (previously my slackware 7 install couldn’t hack it owing to rather old libraries). So now it’s running and streaming via mpd -> […]
Download the ppd for your printer for CUPS from linuxprinting.org – install in /etc/cups/ppd (for debian) Install Windows print servies for UNIX (Add/Remove Programs, Windows Components) With the CUPS admin interface connect to: lpd://hostname/PrinterName Tried this because printing via SAMBA was giving an NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED error which is obviously some kind of Windows authentication error (had […]
Was installing quicktime after reinstalling my Tosh laptop with XP so it could run with the BCD2000 (new drivers, runs well now 😉 ) and it came up with an unpacking error, with a suggestion to reboot my computer. Though ok, best to try it again cleanly, then spent the next hour or so figuring […]