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Finally…

So, after about two years I’ve finally built my keyboard. By which I mean, from a pile of keys and a circuit board and a…
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House Maths

So, we’re moving the fuse box electrical panel (and replacing the shonky crappy old panel. I’ve spent this morning sat working through this document that…
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Tales of the Pinebook and Linux fun

So, I’ve continued to work on making the pinebook a comfortable usable device. It’s been a bit of battle – my mail server has some…
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Danger, Will Robinson!

I have fallen into the dangerous territory of the mechanical keyboard. See, many years ago I had a rather nice IBM keyboard which died. I…
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In the years before…

…when the internet was young[1] I used to collect the odd video. You’d find some bizarre things out there. They’d be uploaded in all their…
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Just a little bit…

Because Linux’s move command is actually copy-then-delete if it’s not within one partition, I have to do this file shuffling in multiple chunks. Which means…
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So far, today has gone better

I spent this morning watching Big Clive tearing down a cheap USB charger which, for unfortunate part-failure reasons – passed mains straight through to the…
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Creeping Americanism

So, my card holder finally no longer contains my British bank cards. They’re now securely & safely stored away… I’ve not quite had the heart…
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It lives! At least a bit.

So I went back to 4th Dimension Computers because the insurance co were unhappy with “it’s dead Jim” as the reason my PC was dead.…
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Yay! Unyay!

I turned on my RiscPC and lo, “Thwooop” it went. Up popped: RISC OS 4.02 And then things went a bit wrong as it ran…