Category Archives: General IT issues

Language of computing

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Branedy

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 →

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Prediction: Surface RT slab Fails

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Branedy

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 →

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If it moves, it breaks!

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Branedy

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 →

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My new Clevo W240EUQ Laptop from PC Specialists

Posted on September 2, 2012 by Branedy

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 →

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The trouble with Microsoft Windows

Posted on August 18, 2012 by Branedy

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 →

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Skype security, and privacy

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Branedy

Communications and privacy will always be a concern, any protocol a computer can generate can be broken, the question is how long, and how important. If your ego about your importance in the world is justified by others, then expect … Continue reading →

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The real problem with a ‘Silicon Republic’ for Ireland

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Branedy

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 →

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The Raspberry-PI Blinks too!

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Branedy

The Raspberry-PI is now operating like an Arduino, sorta, just not as easily or with as many GPIO ports as the Arduino.

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My Chosen ‘Case’ for my RaspBerry-Pi

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Branedy

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 →

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Benchmarking the Raspberry-Pi

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Branedy

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 →

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They both blink

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Branedy

This is my ELF Membership card (in the black box) running a 12 byte program that adds up to 255 then turns off the light, normally this would be about 1 per second, but I’ve been tweeking the speed dial … Continue reading →

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It’s ALIVE, ALIVE (it blinks)

Posted on May 24, 2012 by Branedy

What can I say, it works, See here , and it’s SOOOO productive. I’s amazing that it makes me feel good that I managed to reproduce/assemble a kit of this nature. I grew up with this sort of thing, and … Continue reading →

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One day of concerted Soldering

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Branedy

This is my Monday effors of concerted soldering my neck is stiff, and I have a nice blister on my right hand index finger from fumbling the soldering pencil, but I managed. I thought I had a power source conector, … Continue reading →

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My New Computer

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Branedy

My new computer… Now where did I put that soldering iron….

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The Mobile Convergence

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Branedy

Over the past few years there has been a subject called Technological convergence not to be confused with Technological singularity In one aspect that event has happened to me this year. Because no one noticed, I have been pretty sporadic … Continue reading →

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