Author Archives: blogmywiki

Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?

Posted on February 9, 2008 by blogmywiki

…in the words of Mr William Bragg. We were walking home tonight and saw an amazingly bright satellite tracking across the sky, far brighter than any I’ve seen before. And I’ve seen a few – I love watching bits of … Continue reading →

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Bad Egg

Posted on February 2, 2008 by blogmywiki

Credit card company egg say they are ditching 161,000 customers with poor credit ratings. But it looks like that’s a lie – if the comments on the BBC web site and on the Radio 4 Today programme are anything to … Continue reading →

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Messages! From Outer space!

Posted on January 27, 2008 by blogmywiki

I finally got to play with a pukka One Laptop Per Child laptop on Friday. I’d heard sniffy things about it, and indeed I bought an Asus eeePC for myself as you can’t buy the OLPC in the UK. I … Continue reading →

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Setting the Asus eeePC clock using NTP

Posted on January 16, 2008 by blogmywiki

For some mad reason the Asus eeePC doesn’t have any option to set its time and date using an NTP server – not even when running in the advanced desktop mode. Here’s a quick way to add the function if … Continue reading →

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Phew!

Posted on January 15, 2008 by blogmywiki

As an Apple fan who recently bought a tiny Asus eeePC laptop, I was frankly dreading today’s MacWorld Expo. Everyone seemed to be saying that Apple would also be bringing out a tiny laptop too. I could only hope it … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, Asus eee PC, computers | 10 Comments