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Fake Hello Kitty iPod Shuffle from eBay for £0.01
Amy just received this amusing piece of Chinese electronic tat from eBay. It’s a Hello Kitty branded MP3 player that bears a striking resemblance to a popular brand of portable…
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A BBC Micro with an MMC Card… and some bad components
After the success of repairing my BBC Micro’s PSU I decided the act of shoving 30 year old floppies into an equally old drive, while amusing and all was a…
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Repairing filtering capacitors on faulty BBC Micro PSU
30 year old computers often have a few drawbacks, especially when the equally old components inside them start to malfunction. There is a known fault with the BBC Micro’s power…
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Building a Fignition computer
From the main Fignition website FIGnition is a £20 educational DIY computer which works like an 8-bit home Micro: outputting to composite video and ready to be interactively programmed from…
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Replacing Mac Mini HDD with 64GB Kingston SSD
Notes to remind myself how to configure my Mac so that its swap file is not stored on the SSD.
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Installing an SSD in a Late 2009 A1283 Mac Mini
I recently bought an SSD for my Mac Mini. Being a late 2009 model with a 2.26GHz Core2Duo, 4Gb of RAM and a 500GB HDD there wasn’t much else I…
Howto
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Restoring missing Microsoft Excel workbook windows
I just had a rather strange problem with Microsoft Excel 2010. When opening the workbook nothing appeared on the screen: Evidently something had loaded since the formula bar contained data…
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Amazon Kindle 3 ‘WiFi’ problems and pfSense
A few weeks ago I replaced my malfunctioning Netgear ADSL modem/router/firewall with separate pieces of hardware, the main one being an old PC running the BSD-based firewall ‘OS’ pfSense. After…
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Using ‘dd’ on OSX
Poking a USB device into a Mac causes it to be automounted, with suitable entries appearing in /dev. Ejecting or unmounting the USB device makes all the /dev entries disappear,…
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NAT Loopback on a Speedtouch 780 BeBox
If you still have a Thompson Speedtouch 780 ADSL2+ router (for example you might be a Be Internet customer who signed up when they first opened, and received one of…
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Printing comments in Excel 2010
Short version: Review tab – Show comments Arrange comments on page Page setup – Sheet tab – Comments at end of sheet Long version on the Office Online Help.
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Setting up WebDAV on Ubuntu with PAM
It annoys me that in this “Web2.0″ world we seem to have turned the Internet into a great way of sharing data with other people, but nobody really seems to…
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