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  • Starting on “Prince Toad”

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    A couple of weeks ago I brought Dad’s boat home to do some work on it. Well there is a fair bit of work to do, but hopefully I will get most of it done over the holidays.  Here are photos of the boat in it’s ‘initial’ state. The hole in the side had been…

  • Garmin Forerunner 305 as a Cycling Computer

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    I have now used the forerunner for a couple of rides, and two rides on the same course.  Using the Garmin Training Center I had configured one of my rides as a course. This is probably the closest comparison between the Forerunner 305 and the Ciclosport Hac 4, as I used the Hac 4 for…

  • Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M

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    Just got a Fujitsu ScanSnap S510M scanner. I got this to get rid of the mountain of paperwork that is piling up on my desk. Setup was supremely easy, basically get all of the bits from the box, through away the US power plug and install the software. Three CD’s later I had Adobe Acrobat,…

  • Initial Review of Garmin Forerunner 305

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    I just got my Garmin Forerunner 305. I have been looking at this running watch for a long time, and finally decided it was the right one after Garmin released the Forerunner 405. I bought the 305 for two reasons, the first as a motivational tool for my running and as a replacement for my…

  • Ubuntu and WPA Password

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    Just spent the last 3 days trying to get a MythTV box setup on Mum’s wireless network. I had everything working at home but when I tried to set it up on Mum’s machine it just wouldn’t connect to the network. online bingo rooms internet blackjack games internet gambling laws internet gambling report internet poker…

  • Making Lirc a little less picky

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    Lirc by default creates lircd.conf files with the following headers: name DViCO_Utraview bits 16 flags SPACE_ENC eps 30 aeps 120 I have found with my custom serial receiver (in this case the second one I have created) that you will find at times you have to walk right up to the receiver to get the…

  • Dimming the Lian Li Tr-3

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    I got the Lian Li TR-3 and a bunch of quieter fans for my MythTv box. The installation of the TR-3 was pretty simple and it fitted into my Antec case without a problem. Also despite mentions of it nearly being impossible to use the brief instructions (it only has 2 buttons) explain how to…

  • Australian TV Listings for MythTv

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    For all your Australian TV listings I have found Shepherd to be great. Two things to catch beginners out. The first is making sure the channel names match up with those set in the backend of Myth TV. These need to match exactly or you will miss out on channel information. The other is to…

  • Trick with Self Image on Windows

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    We have been testing making drive images made with Self Image and found that you have to make sure that you created an entire drive image when creating an image. If you make an image of a partition then it is likely that you won’t be able to get all the parameters exactly the same…

  • Open Source Backup Utilities for Windows

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    I needed to find some decent backup utilities for the office. We wanted to have a program that would perform a daily backup and FTP the files off site. The other necessecity is to be able to backup and restore the entire machine quickly. Found two good products, Cobian Backup and Self Image. Both products…