Kate’s allegedly a human (although increasingly right-wing bigots would say otherwise). She’s definitely not a vampire, despite what some other people claim. She’s also mostly built out of spite and overcoming oppositional-sexism, racism, and other random bullshit.
So she’s either a human or a lizard in disguise sent to destroy all of humanity.
Either way, she’s here to reassure that it’s all fine.
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Trying to be fruitful
So, the Pi managed to nuke its main partition. It was able to boot sufficiently to tell me that it couldn’t mount the main partition. I thought about FSCK and trying to fix it, but then I thought, no, just suck it up and fix it properly. Start from scratch. The plan always was get…
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Making Pi
So, progress continues on my Pi Project. The Pi is now encased in one of the (really very nice) Adafruit Pi Boxes (although mine’s a prototype one that came from e-bay sans adafruit logo). I highly recommend it, it’s a very nice box, with one caveat. If you’re doing hideous things with vintage cables, you…
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Unboxing
And so, today, my Raspberry Pi arrived. Filling me with the kind of excitement and nervousness that I used to get when kits of bits would arrive for my beloved BBC Micro. Building up the sound sampler, grabbing my dad’s wire-wrap boards and sitting with the twiddley-tool (which no doubt has a proper name) and…
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Project creep
So, when I started the media ripping project the idea was simple. Using the cruddy equipment we had (Superpad III, Viewsonic box) I would produce a media system of such awesome and unequaled quality that all would flock to witness it in action. Err, okay, perhaps that’s over stating it. Basically, the aim was to…
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Have you guessed I’m on nights yet?
So, today I wandered down and adjusted the brakes on my bike which, yesterday, had moved from their usual barely-adequate* to their alternate state of ‘unfortunately we are unable to meet requests for speed retardation at this time. Please contact your booking agent to find out when braking might become available again’. They’re nearly worn…
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A riscy business
So, I want(ed) a Squeezebox, and logitech decided to discontinue them. So the other thought that had been rattling around my brain for a while was the ‘I could use a Raspberry Pi and a VFD display‘. The trick is to find a VFD that’s easily drivable from a Pi, and a mediacentre installation that’s…
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The oddness of the bathrooom
So, for the past 2 years we’ve not really had a full bathroom. Yes, technically, it has met the criteria for being a bathroom. It has a bath, a toilet, and a sink. Indeed, I think that bar maybe the odd day, it’s been fully functioning. However, it’s not had a floor for most of…
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Working hard or hardly working?
So, I had mentally scheduled (indeed I’d actually scheduled) today to work on RebeccaMog. Having sucked it up and accepted that we’re not going to have her EVified before we go to Nova Scotia, she needs to be made roadworthy again and today’s plan was to strip out the diff. However, you may be aware…
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The Clock (aka this is not how you do it part 1)
So, after we moved in we saw a few nice bakelite (and related) clocks, and rather fancied one. Eventually we located one on e-bay that was ‘cheap’. It’s a Ferranti model, and the person selling it claimed* that they’d not had the nerve to wire it up to test it, but it probably worked. Well,…
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LJ Crosspost test
So, having some glitches in the crossposting. This is a test…