Electric bikes – It starts
The backstory Lynn (my better half) and I want electric bikes. I have wanted one since I was 12, when I used to live in one of the few towns in Cheshire in the UK with a reasonable number of …
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Anatomy of an LCD screen
Have you always wondered what’s in an LCD screen? Reading on the web, there are a lot of different ideas on what it is made up of. As part of what I do I replace LCD screens in laptops, when …
Gallery formatting in responsive theme
If anyone actually looks at my site, they will have spotted that the galleries on 3 pages looked pretty bad there for a few weeks. I use the Responsive Child Theme from CyberChimps, and the latest update to 1.9.4.5 of …
Porting Lazarus development to Linux
This morning I downloaded and installed the Lazarus RAD IDE, Free pascal and its resources to my workshop PC Ubuntu 12.04 image. It all went very smoothly. I tried to run my project (Sudoku Solver) from a USB key, but …
Back to programming
Hi, I’m Dave and I am a programmer. It says so on my passport, and to save hastle, its what I give my job as whenever I have to put it on a form. In reality, I haven’t had the …
CryptoLocker – a Ransomware Trojan Horse Malware Infection!
Eh? What does that mean? You may have already heard about this, “the worst virus ever known”, “once it is on your PC you have lost the whole thing”, “10s of million PCs in the UK at risk” etc. The …
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Raspberry Pi at the shop
The Pi has been on hold for a while, while we get the shop up and running. I did some work on a slideshow so that I could connect it up to a flat screen TV and show pictures of …
Another computer
A customer recently brought a lap to be fixed, about 6 years old, 1.7Gig Compaq nx6120 with 512meg of ram. It quickly became apparent that the IDE 60GB drive was damaged beyond recovery. I informed the customer of the cost …
Signwriting
As well as coping with one of the busiest periods the business has seen yet, and my wife being in hospital for a day and recovering at home for two, I have manged to do some familiarisation with the new …
New Toy
Just before I went for a long walk on Sunday, I spotted a Mimaki CG-60 vinyl/cutter plotter on Trademe, just a few years old, and apparently little used. Bidding had started at $1100, but the reserve had not been reached and it …