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The Nokia N900 To HTC Desire X
Well The end of my Nokia N900 did not come with a bang, but a bonus, a Christmas bonus gift card from my current employer. And and even though the N900 was still pulling it’s weight, it wasn’t current technology. … Continue reading
Posted in Android, Apple, Google, HTC, iPhone, Maemo, N900, Nokia, telecommunications
Tagged Desire X, Htc, Mobile Phone, N900, Nokia
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Language of computing
I was reminded this Christmas Holiday season that computers do not ‘know‘ any human language, only binary, and that it takes humans to provide the translation from the machine to something human readable. And while most computer programing languages are … Continue reading
Posted in Education, General IT issues, History, Information, language, programming, Psychology, Science
Tagged Computers, language, programming
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Prediction: Surface RT slab Fails
This one is the first prediction I’ll make for the new year. The Surface RT slab will fail in 2013. (as in period) Windows 8 on Surface Intel processors will be unstable, but the ARM RT will vanish entirely. UPDATE: … Continue reading
Posted in General IT issues, Information, Marketing, Microsoft, Windows
Tagged Microsoft, Pad, prediction, RT, Slab, Surface, Tablet, Windows 8
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The end is near, for my Nokia N900
No, the USB connector is not loose, in fact everything is working fine. Well maybe the battery runs down and the tiny magnet on the prop went missing (fixed), It was the dissapearance of the Nokia catalog from the apt … Continue reading
If it moves, it breaks!
Having been in IT for the better part of 30 years, I still sometimes forget, so when the New 500GB disk in my new laptop threw an error, I thought it was my fault. It wasn’t, it was, what is … Continue reading
Posted in General IT issues, Linux, Mac, Microsoft, Windows
Tagged Clevo, Diskdrive, PC Specialist
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My new Clevo W240EUQ Laptop from PC Specialists
This is the Laptop I have moved to. No longer a Mac user, never more than a PC user and never a Windows fan. I’m now entirely into my custom built Clevo W244EUQ laptop, built to my configuration by PC … Continue reading
Posted in Apple, DIY server, Freedom, General IT issues, Intel, Linux, Mac, Maker, Microsoft, The Future, Windows
Tagged benchmark, Clevo, Intel, Linux, Mac, Mint, OS, PC Specialist, Windows
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The trouble with Microsoft Windows
While reading some postings about old CPU’s the subject on implementing calculations came up, and someone mentioned an issue with windows calculator. I assumed that this was an artifact from Windows 3.11 or something, but it still exists in Windows … Continue reading
Posted in General IT issues, Information, Intel, Microsoft
Tagged Accuracy, Calculators, Math, Quality Control
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The real problem with a ‘Silicon Republic’ for Ireland
If Cork, and probably Ireland in general, ever wants to get a leg up on Silicon Valley, or ANY tech center, they will have to get the local booksellers to start carrying books on the subject. YES! I do know … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Education, General IT issues, Information, Press, The Future
Tagged books, Computing, education
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The Raspberry-PI Blinks too!
The Raspberry-PI is now operating like an Arduino, sorta, just not as easily or with as many GPIO ports as the Arduino.
Posted in Arduino, DIY server, General IT issues, Projects
Tagged Arduino, GPIO, Maker, Raspberry-Pi
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My Chosen ‘Case’ for my RaspBerry-Pi
My Case of choice arrived for my Raspberry-PI today and it looks, and works fine. As I fancy myself as a ‘Maker‘ I chose this case from www.skpang.co.uk Now which wire is connected to what pin??? The knee bone is … Continue reading
Posted in DIY server, General IT issues, Maker, Projects
Tagged Arduino, GPIO, Maker, Raspberry-Pi
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The very first Higgs Boson
Yup! The first of many Higgs Boson’s, just like the early Greeks predicted, particles within particles within particles ad infinitude.
Posted in Energy, History, Information, Religion, Science, The Future, Truth
Tagged Higgs Boson, Research, Science
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Benchmarking the Raspberry-Pi
This is a crude and simple PI test against the Raspberry-Pi and a Dell Pentuim-4 (3.0Ghz) The Raspberry-Pi Starting PI… x= 0.38631 y= 0.89070 low= 939239 j=1200001 Pi = 3.130797 ztot= 801773.75 itot= 1200000 real 0m1.900s user 0m1.720s sys 0m0.000s … Continue reading
Posted in Education, General IT issues, Information, Intel, Linux, Maker
Tagged Arduino, Benchmarking, C, Maker, Pentium, Raspberry-Pi
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Learning Computers and Computing
I have been doing research into the nature of computers and I’ve been participating with with the phenomena know as Coderdojo. As part of my research I’ve been relearning Assembly language on several different architectures, and I’ve been experimenting with … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Maker
Tagged Arduino, CoderDojo, education, ELF, Maker, Membership Card, programming, Raspberry-Pi
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