Category: hardware
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When “Click and Collect” isn’t
The trials and tribulations of trying not to shop on Black Friday! I needed to replace my mother’s computer, which as her sole means of buying food had died and was effectively beyond repair. I wanted to buy an iMac, because it’s a safer product for those with a tendency to load ambiguous games and…
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Arsenal (not the team) part two
Inevitably, I was going to shave the plug end. If you have no idea what I’m waffling on about (join the club) then click here. So, a little judicious filing away of the black plastic and wala… whalla… oua’la… how on earth does one spell voilà!? 😉 I’ve kept nuclear power stations on the bars with short…
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Arsenal (not the team) part one
So after Kickstarting this little box of tricks what feels like a long time ago, I recently got notification of despatch. This is a first thoughts review of Arsenal: The Intelligent Camera Assistant. The main web site for this is https://witharsenal.com/ I guess the first thing to note, and a key factor in what might be…
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Yule Lists – What Not to Buy!
At this time of year, as we approach commercialmas on bended wallet, there are so many lists of things. My in tray is – like yours, I’m sure – full of ways to change money into tatt. But what we really want is a list of things not to buy this year. And here’s one!…
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Nice try localhost@webxc241s05.ad.aruba.it
Really though, you ought to at least spend a moment checking your spelling before you send out your nasty nonsense… Folks, we all know not to open links in unsolicited emails, don’t we…
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Backing up!
I came across another thread on Facebook the other day, where someone had lost a file. It happens… you crash the computer during a save, or the hdd fails totally, or the computer is stolen. So many ways to lose that 45,000 word thesis, or the next Hippy Pootle novel. I lost a year’s worth…
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Staying Alive
The Druids of myth and legend were part of an oral tradition. This, we are told, is why we know almost nothing about the tradition they followed; their practices are now those reported by ancient historians, for the most part members of rival and conquering societies. History is written by the winners, it is said,…
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Mac week one
I must stop telling people “I’ve gone over to the dark side…” I got a very old fashioned look from the otherwise really helpful and friendly bloke in the Bristol Apple Store yesterday, where I’d gone to pick up the Magic Trackpad I forgot to order with the rest of the kit. lol [note: the…
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iBish
My first proper experience of a computer was with an Apple II. It was back in 1981 and I was in full time employment for the first time, as an electrical wireman and workshop supervisor for a small Bristol based company called South West Research (now long gone). Our mission was to remove from service…
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