Following on from closing down my Facebook accounts, I decided to retire completely, and wind down SOS Computer Rescue. It was all starting to get a bit irritating, Facebook being dicks, Crazy Domains taking over Openhost (and being dicks), which …
Just a note to let people know that I have deleted all my Facebook accounts. Yep, gone cold turkey, switched it all off, personal, SOS Computer Rescue and the pages for my EV – Squirrel the Minicab Miev In fact …
I have a fairly regular customer who brings in old PCs and laptops, previously owned by his son (now left home and in employment), and gets me to extract the user data off the hard drives and put it onto …
Depending on your age, you may be familiar with the TV program Countdown, or the 8 Out 0f 10 Cats does Countdown version, or the generic original version Numbers and Letters, or maybe the even more original French version! If …
As I said below in the last Raspberry Pi post, this project will never really be over. A while ago, the Logitech Web Cam attached to the PI Model B assigned to door opener duties (which gave images of the …
The History I looked back at previous posts and it appears I have been working on this project for nearly 3 years! The first part, being able to open the garage doors using wifi from a browser on my phone, …
Garage Automation Project – near as dammit complete! Read more »
There is an old joke about a camel being a horse designed by a committee. A camel is ugly, and as well as kicking and biting, it spits. However, if you need something to carry a heavy load, across inhospitable …
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 …
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 …
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 …