Most of my neighbours are blasting out wireless networks that I can pick up in my home. But how can … More
Author: simkin
Advent Powerline 85Mbps Drivers
Searching for a driver can occasionally be a pain in the rear. I recently barfed my powerline boxes. Finally found … More
Thecus N299 CIFS problem
MY trusty little N299 NAS has decided that CIFS isn’t something it likes. I thus need to factory reset it … More
Augmented Reality
Been playing with Layar, an AR app on the iPhone. It has a load of free “layers” that each provide … More
Squid on Ubuntu
I want to build a transparent squid proxy for home to play around with wccp configs. First step is to … More
Nagios on Ubuntu 8.1
So I thought I’d try to find oout why my desktop and NAS keep arguing. Nagios. That will help. So … More
Mac Mini Blu-Ray
I have a lovely little Mac Mini as my media centre. I am proud of it. It could do with … More
Despair
I love those demotivational posters. I like it even more that you can create your own ones.
Windows 7 and the Realtek ALC850 AC97 chipset
If only it played 5.1 instead of just stereo…. Well you can, after a fashion, get it to play out … More
Dawn of War II Games for Windows Connection problem 0x80151911
You have to hate it when you have your mates all lined up to play a multi-player online game and … More