Projects
Hacking Internal Bluetooth Into The Asus Eee PC
Frustrated by the ugliness of plugging a USB bluetooth adaptor into my Eee PC, I decided that the best thing I could do was gut a bluetooth adapter and install it internally. Here are my accounts of the process.
Optimising Web Sites With A Separate Static Content Server
I’ve been playing around over the weekend with speeding up this website a little. It runs on a virtual server with not much RAM, so it’s important that I keep the number of Apache processes as low as possible. I’ve installed lighttpd another IP to serve static content such as images and stylesheets. This means [...]
Making Chocolate Flapjack
Since it was pretty bad weather this afternoon, we decided to make some flapjack. It’s also Oliver’s birthday party tomorrow so it’ll be nice to have some to put out then (if there’s any left, of course!). We put some melted chocolate on top because it didn’t appear to have quite enough sugar or calories [...]
Whatever Happenned to Microcosmos.co.uk?
Microcosmos.co.uk was an SGI fan site I used to run a couple of years back. Unfortunately, I let the domain expire because I was too damn busy to renew it. This weekend, Ian Mapleson mentioned that people had asked him about it, so I thought I’d have a look at getting it up and running [...]
Authenticated RSS
While hacking our problem tool at work, I thought it might be cool to set up an RSS feed for each problem so that you can be notified when comments are added onto it. The major problem I hit was that the system uses cookie-based logins, so it would be a security hole to leave [...]
Recruitment Morons
Some IT recruitment agencies are soooo dumb. I got an email from Jamie at PS Recruitment yesterday pushing a job with absolutely no relevance to me whatsoever. I doubt he’s in posession of anything beyond my email address, which makes him a spammer. When I sent back a polite enough, semi-humorous email pointing out that [...]
DIY Ioniser
There was just a thunderstorm here this evening, so the air’s nice and clear now after a few days of humid, oppressive air. It got me thinking though, about an old ioniser we used to have when I lived at home. I think I’ll build one this week. All you need is a Cockroft-Walton multipler [...]
Freevo Box
This weekend I’ll finally get around to doing some more work on the Freevo PVR I’m building. I started before Christmas with an LR6550 DVB-T card from eBay, and a Mini-ITX motherboard in a nice little slimline case, smaller than an average satellite receiver. I’ll report back on the progress later on. Link
Twitter: jamesholden
- Grr... bank just cancelled my credit card because they can't comprehend recurring transactions in different countries >:-(
- Morning all! I'm back after a lazy, net-free week off. 'Sup everyone?
- "Mugging benefit... up to £40 per day?" ... I know they're laid back in the Caribbean but how long should it take to mug somebody?
- Should note that I've not been robbed, just appalled by the small print.
