I don’t know what they’ve done but it’s gone from being great to being a waste of money. You buy a full can and the thing blocks up and fails about half way through – Even when you follow the instructions for clearing the nozzle after each use. It used […]
The combination of WordPress and the plugins WordPress Wiki 1.0.2 and File Gallery 1.7.4.1 don’t work properly together. There is also a problem with Suffusion and the bbPress plugin. I think it’s something to do with templates not being supported in the theme. Individually, the plugins seem like a good […]
Update – March 2017 – problems with Firefox It seems like there have been a a lot of changes to Firefox lately; maybe it’s just my impression. Recently all of a sudden I could not use Paypal on Ebay. The Paypal login whirly circle just went round and got nowhere, […]
This is the lost model tracker I’ve been working on for RC aircraft and other applications. Real World Testing: I’ve retrieved it from a period of testing in a plastic bottle hanging in a tree on the hillside about 3KM away. It was there for almost 4 weeks, running on […]
I got a couple of cheap second hand 15″ Philips 150B LCD monitors recently just to use for testing and working on PCs that don’t normally have a monitor connected. Both cleaned up like new but one had a faint wavy pattern in the background of the image. This indicates […]
Back in late November my main PC went off and would not switch back on. At the time I swapped the guts out into an old tower case to get up and running quickly. I have now repaired the original power supply from the low-profile case. A few of its […]
We’ve been using Compact Fluorescent Lamps for many years. They use less power for the light output and our supply voltage is on the high side and incandescent lamps don’t last long. Compact Fluorescent Lamps seem to fail more often than they should. Usually the electronics fizz and go bang […]
I wanted to set up a Dell GX-270 with 1G ram and 40G hard drive as a basic web-browser, email, open-office machine that is simple to use. I like KDE, at least the version that came with KUbuntu 10.04, and I’m not interested in the new Unity desktop. Having heard […]