Fixing the workplace coffee machine.
My place of work, Bede Gaming, is a software house. Because of this, we hire a lot of developers, and, as everyone knows, developers have the amazing ability to convert caffeine into code. So when our beloved coffee machine (The Sage (Breville) “The...
My adventures into the world of GNU/Linux. Part 6 – Just another Linux server
It’s been well over a year since the last instalment. But here’s the long-awaited 6th part. It’s now November 2005 and I’d been using Linux on and off for 3 years as a desktop/workstation. So I started looking at how Linux systems could be used...
Repairing a mains powered timer
So it’s getting close to Christmas, so as usual it’s time to put the decorations up. All was going fine until it was time to put the tree lights on a timer. That’s when I discovered that both devices I have were not functioning when unplugged. Two...![[Updated] Your favourite YouTube stars may soon dissappear from the platform, but not before your account goes first](https://robert.hawdon.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/logo_parody_stop-1024x675.png){kind=logo}
[Updated] Your favourite YouTube stars may soon dissappear from the platform, but not before your account goes first
Ah, who doesn’t love a bit of YouTube drama? Whilst I’ve tried my best to stay out of it (mainly by being a total nobody on the platform), I think what happened to my account is the start of something that’s going to spiral out of control. A light...
Introducing DF-SHOW: A *nix rewrite of an obscure DOS file manager
I’ve been into computing for a very long time, being introduced to computers from a very young age. Some of my most fond memories of this particular hobby are from my youngest days, where even most the mundane things seemed really interesting, probably because...Hello and welcome to my site
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