Technology
As noted in my look at the ScreenBar. Not being able to control the light from my PC was one of the downsides. Since then I've got to some Elgato Key Lights. Since I spend an increasing amount of time on video calls. This moved lack of USB
PC
TL:DR A well thought out stylish product, that does what it says on the tin but for an expensive price. Like the world+dog, I've been spending all my time sat at my home desk. Instead of commuting between that and a desk at the office. All
PC
This is my first build from a complete blank slate for ten years. Most of my current system is six years old ( I thought it was more like four but I checked, no wonder it feels slow). I started with the processor, going for a Haswell i7 was the obvious
Games
I used to run a small Minecraft server with some friends, these are my notes on how I setup the machine. So for server specification required I looked on the forums (but the wiki has a better page now). For the machine I went with BuyVM after finding them on
Technology
I've been a gamer for a long time but some of my fellow players have a reputation for being less than friendly towards female players. So its great to see someone high profile both as a player (including some time spent as a member of the UK Quake
Reviews
I've been thinking about getting some sort of mobile broadband for a while now. Both as a backup for my home connection and to use out and about. My orginal plan was to upgrading my d420 to a netbook with builtin 3G, particularly the samsung n230 but since
Technology
Mostly for me, I thought it would be useful to list who else blogged about Limor Fried for Ada Lovelace Day this year: * Robert Mills' talk about some of the project Limor has produced. <li><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_O%27Reilly&
Technology
Continuing the hardware theme of last years post. This years is about Limor "Ladyada" Fried and not just because of her nickname. Limor has made some great contributions to Open source hardware and has a good set of tutorials for the Ardunio, which were useful when I was
Technology
So I first learnt about Ada Lovelace day on del.icio.us and signed the pledge, and then spent a long time thinking about who I should write about, Ada Lovelace seems a little like the safe option. Being a hardware architect in a former life and still working on
Technology
I was getting this on my server, so I did what anyone would do and googled it. So to hopefully stop other searching for a solution, when moving from one authentication module to another they changed how spaces in passwords were handled, whatever the new modules is does not like
Technology
As twittered back in December, I got a new PC, so my mother got my old system, which left her old system spare. It seems so simple, get a big hard drive and rip all my CDs, at last, I mean its not like its was a 286. Its a
Technology
Just uploading a few new photos from the journey back to Bristol and well the upload page had completely changed from last night. New flickr upload page I must say the new version is much better, at least you can see how far it got with each file, and you