Category: Computing

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Comments Off on Days off

Days off

Bike Canada Computing General
Days off still feel a bit of an oddity. I allowed myself a break between the slog of the bathroom and starting the hallway, because…
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Onward

Canada Computing General House
So, today’s progress report from the house… Sealant in around bathroom window; it’s not as neat as I would like in a couple of patches,…
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The New Rip Project

Computing General
Okay, so as I’ve commented before (enough times, I’m sure), back when I originally ripped the media in our house a variety of encoders were…
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Master of the 8bit music

Computing General
So, today I headed over to John’s with some more of our broken old sad things. Actually I headed over to see John with the…
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Comments Off on Okay, so just FLAC then?

Okay, so just FLAC then?

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So, when I first set up the music server I initially intended just to get the music using normal network shares. But the Viewsonic VMP74…
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Comments Off on Steady, if not stellar, progress

Steady, if not stellar, progress

Computing General House
So, I’m still not back to pre-course levels of productivity, and some mornings spin by without so much as a by-your-leave (mostly with me either…
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Comments Off on Not going smoothly

Not going smoothly

Computing General House
So, the media server died. Well, it’s not dead. At 10 years old the Athlon XP’s power supply started to fail. I have a faint…
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Comments Off on The good, the bad and the otherstuff

The good, the bad and the otherstuff

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So, good news first, eh? I am going to go and spend the afternoon doing data collection. Yay. Err, or something. No, seriously, I thought…
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Comments Off on Fixin’ to kludge, again. (Geekery)

Fixin’ to kludge, again. (Geekery)

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Dunno why I post the ‘geekery’ warning, I mean, it’s on here. It’s going to be house, car, computing or NHS. Music is relegated to…
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Comments Off on More techery geekery

More techery geekery

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So, I have so far failed in my quest to lay my hands on a Slim Devices slimp3 (or any of the later Squeezebox with…
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