Category Archives: hardware

LittleBits

Posted on September 1, 2008 by blogmywiki

These look like fun… thanks to Azfar for sending me this link. littleBits intro from ayah bdeir on Vimeo.

Posted in hardware | Leave a comment

Big fat hard drive in a 700 MHz G4 iMac

Posted on February 18, 2008 by blogmywiki

Conventional wisdom says that any G4 iMac slower than 1 GHz cannot work with a hard drive bigger than 120 GB. But they were selling 320GB IDE drives in Maplin for only £59.99 and it seemed silly to pay ten … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, computers, hardware, lowendmac, MacOS X, operating systems, thrift | 4 Comments

Repairing a G4 ‘Anglepoise’ iMac

Posted on February 17, 2008 by blogmywiki

My son’s school was chucking out a faulty 700 MHz G4 Anglepoise iMac – apprently it had an intermittant fault where the hard drive clicked and it wouldn’t boot. Of course I couldn’t bear to see this become land-fill so … Continue reading →

Posted in Apple, lowendmac, thrift | 4 Comments

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 →

Posted in computers, Linux, OLPC, Sugar, thrift | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Asus eee PC, computers, Linux, Xandros | 2 Comments