All Posts Tagged Tag: ‘Hardware’

The iPhone 3G Lives On!

Posted Jul 3 2010 by Oli in , , with 3 Comments

A few months ago I made a decision: Whatever new ‘iPhone’ Apple reveals at WWDC, I’m not interested. I don’t have any money, and I’m perfectly happy with my iPhone 3G. My intentions were good, but unfortunately I got sucked in by Apple’s Reality Distortion Field along with everyone else. At one point I actually found myself welling up at …

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Setting Sail Across the C

Posted Sep 2 2009 by Oli in , with 6 Comments

I’m a Microsoft developer. There, I said it. I’ve grown up in a world of BASIC, from the early days of QuickBASIC through to VB.NET today. It’s a fantastic, easy going world to live in – particularly since .NET – as everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) is laid out for you. As a development environment, it’s so easy to get …

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Ubuntu as a Home Server

Posted Mar 31 2009 by Oli in , , with 4 Comments

For quite some time now I’ve toyed with the idea of setting up a home server. Actually, I’ve setup plenty of home servers over the years but since I moved house I just lost interest. I had a perfectly good NAS, so there seemed little point … In the past I’ve downloaded numerous Linux distros, installed them on some small …

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Installing Vista from a Memory Card

Posted Feb 5 2009 by Oli in , with 3 Comments

I figured there must be an easier way … maybe I could format a USB drive or memory stick? Well, you can … but the thought dawned on me: If you can boot and install from those media, then why not a CF card in a card reader? My reasoning was that I didn’t want to format either my USB drive or 16Gb memory stick … they have all my files on them! However, my digital camera has a rather healthy 4Gb CF card in it that could easily be formatted.

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