Recent Posts Tagged With 'hardware'

• Attempting to repair my FAL Phase 44 amplifier

  Posted on Sunday November 29th, 2009 at 08:49 in technology, electronics, hardware, weird, retro, old, Projects, broken, amp

  FAL Phase 44 Amplifier Sometime last year my old Kenwood hifi amp stopped working due to the speaker cutout relays not working. The speakers would never switch on, making for a fairly useless amplifier. While my cousin was sorting out his mess before...

• Ubuntu 9.10 – Tedious Timewaste

  Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 16:54 in hardware, Linux, weird, ubuntu, server, hard disk, ide, Projects, broken, grub, sata, pata

  I’m attempting to install Ubuntu 9.10 server edition on my server. To say it’s not going smoothly would be as big an understatement as saying “That Hitler bloke, he was a bit naughty, wasn’t he?”. The damn thing just won...

• Blogs and websites I like to read

  Posted on Monday October 5th, 2009 at 17:25 in art, programming, Photography, Personal, links, hardware, website, weird, retro, hyperlinks

  I use Google Reader to follow quite a lot of websites, blogs and anything else interesting that squirts out an RSS feed. For the curious, here is a list of my favourites. I’m leaving out the well known things like XKCD, Dilbert, Hack-a-day and ...

• General Failure’s superior - Kernel Panic

  Posted on Friday June 5th, 2009 at 14:26 in technology, hardware, Linux, server, broken, kernel panic

  While logging into my Windows PC I noticed it was failing to get an IP address from DHCP. After checking the cabling I plugged a screen into my server and saw this. Oh dear, reboot time I guess. Best go make a cup of tea while the terabyte disk check...

• ZX Spectrum +3 with DivIDE CF board and RGB cable

  Posted on Friday May 29th, 2009 at 15:22 in video, hardware, retro, Projects, monitor, zx spectrum, divide, compact flash, modification

  A month or so ago I ordered a DivIDE board from Papaya Labs. The DivIDE board is an ATA interface for the ZX Spectrum, allowing IDE devices such as hard disks, CDROM drives and Compact Flash cards to be plugged into the Spectrum, which, through a spe...

• Macro Electronics Photography

  Posted on Tuesday May 5th, 2009 at 16:56 in Photography, technology, hardware, macro, hard disk, ibook

  While building my MAME cabinet and sorting out the various motherboards in my posession, I got a bit bored and started taking random photos. Electronics are interesting close up, this image shows some surface mount resistors on the back of a motherbo...

• Linux on your oven - or why fans are good in computers

  Posted on Monday May 4th, 2009 at 13:00 in hardware, Projects, freecycle, cooling, cpu, mame, modification, celeron

  So, my MAME cabinet was having stability problems all day. Either it was locking up, the network kept dropping or bits of it stopped working (like the sound). By a process of elimination I managed to make it consistently crash running Memtest86 after...

• Mame Cabinet - With added electroshock therapy

  Posted on Monday May 4th, 2009 at 08:57 in house, hardware, Linux, weird, wifi, Projects, broken, macbook, mame, cocktail cabinet

  As part of my ongoing “learning by my near fatal mistakes” attitude to life I’ve discovered some interesting problems with my MAME cab. While undergoing the torture known as “getting MAME to work” I found the PC kept cra...