Tag Archives: hardware

New site design – it’s here!

Posted on March 28, 2007 by Michael Fleming

It’s arrived! In case you’ve missed the rest of the site, I’ve pushed the staging branch to the world in it’s black and green(ish) glory. It may not to be to all tastes but at least it’s better than the … Continue reading →

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Hardware with a case of the Mondays…

Posted on March 26, 2007 by Michael Fleming

Good grief, Charlie Brown. I wonder why the hell I ever got involved with technology. Saturday: I’ve needed a printer / scanner to replace my venerable (and often dodgy) Lexmark and Genius combo (the Lex part having never worked with … Continue reading →

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Holiday halfway point.

Posted on January 9, 2007 by Michael Fleming

One full week to go before I’m back to the grind (something I’m not looking forward to, but I have to eat) I’ve at least managed to get something different in this time – a visit to the new Modern … Continue reading →

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…so he tries to get too frickin’ clever..

Posted on January 3, 2007 by Michael Fleming

…and almost loses. As noted in my last entry, I picked up a gigabit switch in the post Christmas sales along with a suitable network card. Today, being a generally wet/overcast day (meaning “watch cricket on the TV and hack … Continue reading →

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Another Christmas survived.

Posted on December 27, 2006 by Michael Fleming

It wasn’t half bad, actually – got to catch up with Paul and his missus among other relatives I don’t see too frequently. As usual, the food is plentiful and good. Sleeping on the couch (as per tradition for me) … Continue reading →

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A little extra reliability…

Posted on October 17, 2006 by Michael Fleming

Payday finally arrived! I’d been looking at a good UPS (uninterruptible power supply for the non-hacker/tech readers) and finally settled on the APC RS 500 (about $AU300). It was painless to install and even with my current-sucking bittybox (ie pong, … Continue reading →

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Because I’ve not put one up for a while.

Posted on October 2, 2006 by Michael Fleming

…here’s a desktop screenshot. I’ve been running GNOME for who knows how long now – thought about KDE (nah) and Fluxbox (almost..) but stuck with what I know best. It just Works. I’ve also avoided putting up images of late … Continue reading →

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Ahead by a nose….

Posted on July 23, 2006 by web

I seem to have “fixed” the entropy-drain problem I had after I upgraded qbert to FC5. It took a little time (and some activity, good old find / -type f | wc -l helped get the numbers up) and a … Continue reading →

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Happiness Is A Returning Friend.

Posted on July 9, 2006 by web

This week has been interesting indeed for me. It’s had it’s ups and downs however it was happily mostly positive. Wednesday was “Futile Effort To Save A RAID-5 Array” day; One of the email-to-SMS services dropped a drive half an … Continue reading →

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Betty Windsor’s Birthday ’06 Post.

Posted on June 12, 2006 by web

I like a three day weekend, but it’d be even better if it wasn’t the weekend before payday (ergo I am broke ) Saturday was spent chatting to friends and family – on the downside the family dog, Hooch, had … Continue reading →

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