Raspberry PI and Raspbian Lite Buster
The tiny computer projects to control garage doors and display webcam images has moved on a bit, and I have added two new tiny computers into the network. The first feature I wanted to add was an access to the …
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Squirrel – and our South Island camping road trip, Feb 2020
Squirrel has recently taken us on a road trip, from our home in Whitby to Little River on the Banks Peninsula. We intended to go all the way to Akaroa, but circumstances prevented the last leg. As the Squirrel only …
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Squirrel – the Mitsi Miev Minicab
Why Squirrel? Well it is small, red, quiet,cute and peoples heads turn like the dogs in the film “Up!” when they see a squirrel. It has already caused one nose to tail between two vehicles when the first vehicle stopped …
First Electric 4 wheeled vehicle
We finally did it, after years of considering, and months of waiting for the right vehicle to come along, we have bought our first electric car – or van in this case. A slightly unusual vehicle, especially here in NZ. …
Another Unfortunate Scam
Its sad when someone tries their best to solve problems for them selves and get scammed by some lowlife. This customer of mine had a small issue with her log on to get her Yahoo Mail, just a bit of …
New Home Computer
It’s not often I splash out on a new computer, normally my computers are Frankenstein machines rescued and upgraded using stuff abandoned by customers. However, the last computer I bought for home, about 10 years ago, was starting to show …
Counterfeit Laptop Power Supplies
A few months ago, I supplied a Dell charger and battery for an older laptop. Because I wanted to get them at the same time, with a single postage charge, and the battery was quite difficult to find, when I …
Anatomy of a scam
This post may take a few days, so keep coming back! Some background first. I repair computers, and a few customers (3 or 4) have been hit by the “Windows Corporation” scam, where someone thief rings up with a very …
Onion Omega – next steps
I have made some serious changes to the PHP web page which servers up the door controls and web cam images, so I decided to finally get FTP access to the files on the Omega. The arrival of my second …
Business Directories – unsolicited entries
I seem to be getting a number of requests by phone and email to confirm details for an entry on yet another internet business directory. I fell for this as the start, adding myself to a couple of directories, at …