Webcam Adventures
Back in April I decided to start a webcam project and gave myself an amazing budget of zero pounds. The objective is to capture outdoor images and one day compile them into a video to…
Category Archives: Hardware
How I handled a faulty hard drive
It happened, it just had to happen. Darn it! My laptop hard drive started having problems. At boot it reported the hard drive needed checking and chkdsk found files, too many. Then again a day…
Wipe a hard drive. Boot and Nuke!
I was asked recently about wiping hard drives and as I needed to wipe one, I thought it would be an ideal opportunity to write a blog article. I’m about to place a laptop on…
Replacing a miniPCI wifi card in a laptop
So I own a few laptops and none of them are that new. However they meet my requirements and I see no point in buying a new laptop at the moment. However for a while…
Boast your computers performance. Install a new CPU?
In most businesses you don’t need to be running the latest and greatest technology. Indeed that can become extremely costly. Especially if your a startup organisation. I have a desktop PC that last year had…
DVD-ROM PDVD-850 CitiRom and Shining CardBus/PCMCIA Adapter
I’ve just tested my old external dvd drive and thought I would provide some details. Mainly because these notes could help someone install their drive and resolve issues. The DVD drive has a model number…
Setting up and using a cheap NAS box (35-hd-dualide-nas)
I’ve used and managed servers for many years from server rooms filled full of unix systems to smaller installs with NT4, 2000 servers and recently linux distro’s….. so what made me consider a cheap NAS…
Upgrading a Linksys WRT54g router & monitoring bandwidth
The adsl router that I’ve been using for years has run into trouble and needed replacing. So what did I replace it with? Well I have a spare adsl router, but unfortunately that only has…