Over the weekend I replaced the leaking inlet valve of our toilet. What should have been a 5 minute job took a couple of days as whoever installed it in the first place glued the nut joining the inlet pipe to the inlet valve. This meant that I had to cut the inlet valve out …
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Strange smells
A while ago I came home to a strange smell in the house, then a little while later I found this!
SVG
I’ve been looking into making some software with my daughter. She wants to make a game with some characters she has drawn, so I need a nice way to render them. I want to make them using vector graphics, but iOS doesn’t really have a nice way of doing that. What I am in the …
It is alive again
I got another email from the awesome tech support guys at Drobo this morning asking about my DroboPro. I told them it had died again and they offered to replace it rather cheaply, they also suggested that both batteries might need to be replaced rather than just the CR2032 coin cell. I removed the main …
Looks like it is dead again
I spoke too soon. I rebooted the box to get it to enable iSCSI to allow for a faster transfer and it hasn’t come back to life again 🙁 At least I managed to get the one thing I didn’t have a backup copy of off the unit, so I’m pretty much good to go …
My DroboPro just died :(
It is almost 4 years old, so it has served me reasonably well. I have backups of most of the data, but there may be some things I have lost. Ah well. I’ve been wanting to open the thing up and have a look inside for a while now. They are quite nicely built I …
It lives!
this is a quick post using the browser on the Raspberry Pi. It works pretty well as far as I can see 🙂
Raspberry Pi Update
Yes indeed, that package was a Raspberry Pi 🙂 Now all I have to do is use some of my copious spare time to have a play with it 😉
Nabaztag
I have been having some fun lately playing around with my old Nabaztag rabbit. A little while ago I managed to get the compiler for the little VM running in the Nabaztag working under Mac OS X. The compiler also comes with a simulator, and unfortunately the Linux version that I got running under OS …
FrontDoor
This weekend I built a simple little Linux program that scratches an particular itch of mine. Â As part of my daily work I need to log in to various Linux VMs. Â The problem is that the IP addresses of these VMs often changes due to them being configured to use DHCP. Â I suppose I could …