I think I’m beginning to find the bugs in WordPress. Maybe not bugs, but undesirable side effects of being plug-in based and very versatile. I guess it’s impossible for every plug-in creator to know what all the others are doing. It may be possible to choose a set of plug-ins […]
The other day I was deleting some old bookmarks from Firefox and wondered why my site link had a little empty box rather than a fancy little icon. A bit of research explained that this icon was a favicon. So I used Gimp to make a little 16×16 graphic then […]
I needed a motherboard manual to sort out some USB headers. So rather than searching through all my files I went to Google on the laptop which took me straight to the product page on the Asus web site. To download anything Asus wanted to know what OS, so I […]
I opened Firefox and it just went off and would not restart. The power supply has failed; seems it won’t supply the load. It’s a AMD dual core something-or-other, about 3GHz I think, 4G ram and a 1G low profile Asus ENGT220 video card on a Asus MB. Asus; that’s […]
I designed and built one of these. Everybody needs one of these. I’ve had this one on test for some time now and it’s working well. If you have a computer or other electrical device running 24/7, out of the way in a corner or back room, what happens when […]
Yesterday was one of the hottest days we’ve had so far this summer and my laptop was getting very hot running the PCB CAD. I’ve tried a cooler pad before which was rubbish so I decided to solve the problem properly. Where the laptop always sits I made two […]
For some micro code development I wanted a simple serial terminal on another machine; something like Teraterm or Hyperterminal, but not windoze. I’ve had far too much trouble in the past with windoze and serial comms, and I want it to run USB to serial cables without fighting with stupid […]
Problem Using the laptop instead of the main PC I needed to refer to an email attachment. No problem, open Thunderbird and find the email. The attachment is a.bmp file; no worries, double click to open it. Problem; Thunderbird doesn’t know how and offers 2 options, “open with”and “save file”. […]