About Author: James

Website
http://ncot.piku.org.uk
Description
I'm just a person who likes writing software in their spare time. I'm not an "indie games developer" and am not trying to escape my day job and live in the happy world of games dev. I'm more like one of those people that used to write games in their spare time in the 80s. My stuff would be PD or Shareware if this were the 80s or 90s. It's good to comment on the posts in here :)

Posts by James

  • TweetEveryone likes looking at the innards of electronic devices. Modern ones are a bit boring now unless you’ve got a microscope, but there’s plenty of interest in old tech… especially...

    Inside a Motorola 8500X brick phone

    Posted on February 7, 2012 | No Comments
    TweetEveryone likes looking at the innards of electronic devices. Modern ones are a bit boring now unless you’ve got a microscope, but there’s plenty of interest in old tech… especially...

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  • TweetI recently upgraded my server to a new machine running Ubuntu 11.10. With the Macs in our house I’ve always used Samba for file sharing – it works, it’s stable...

    Make Netatalk work on Ubuntu 11.10 and OSX

    Posted on February 4, 2012 | No Comments
    TweetI recently upgraded my server to a new machine running Ubuntu 11.10. With the Macs in our house I’ve always used Samba for file sharing – it works, it’s stable...

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  • TweetHard drives are pretty fascinating things, full of complex and precisely machined pieces of metal that spin at high speeds. And they’re strangely reliable too, considering what’s in them. Well,...

    The insides of an iPod 1.8″ HDD and a 2.5GB Seagate Microdrive

    Posted on February 3, 2012 | No Comments
    TweetHard drives are pretty fascinating things, full of complex and precisely machined pieces of metal that spin at high speeds. And they’re strangely reliable too, considering what’s in them. Well,...

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  • TweetAmy 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...

    Fake Hello Kitty iPod Shuffle from eBay for £0.01

    Posted on January 18, 2012 | No Comments
    TweetAmy 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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  • TweetAfter 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...

    A BBC Micro with an MMC Card… and some bad components

    Posted on January 6, 2012 | No Comments
    TweetAfter 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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