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Having bricked my router trying to use unofficial firmware, i was nervous about trying it on my iAudio x5 (the sucessor to my fondly remembered but increasingly unstable Iriver h-140,)  however I decided to be brave, and I’m having a lot of fun.
There is a group who have developed a firmware called Rockbox, which [...]

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People who work on something for hours in a program which is likely to crash, don’t save their work and then complain about it when they lose everything.
Use “File”>”Save As…”, use it often.
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No, I’m not talking about me (although I do wear rather nifty rimless specs and did celebrate a birthday a few days ago.) I’m talking about my beloved old Sinclair Spectrum.  According to the good old Beeb, the Sinclair Spectrum is 25 years old this month (younger than me - makes me feel old)  Turns [...]

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So I posted recently about my new found love for Ubuntu linux. I did have some problems getting it installed though. I would boot up the Live CD and, even in safe graphics mode, I would get a garbled screen once Ubuntu had started off.
This was kind of a showstopper since all [...]

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I’ve just been setting up a site search on a whindows server and decided to use an indexing services search. I had no idea it was so complex. It took me ages to work things out, although I’m neither a windows guru nor a php expert.
Writing php to query indexing services is not [...]

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