Random Bits from Boredom

The Gtk/Gnome subsystem provides the basis for many of the popular (along with KDE) window managers on Linux. One of the areas of the curre...

Working with airmon-ng on Fedora 23 running on HP Mini 210 3025sa with an Atheros AR9285 wifi card using stock kernel ath9k module.

I was looking for a small solution that can be used to back up photos/media whilst traveling, but most solutions require a computer - whils...

The HP 210-3025 was sold as a 2011/2012 netbook with a 64bit Intel Atom n570 dual core 1.67Ghz chip with hyper threading, pre installed with...

Currently using Sony MovieStudio 13 Platinum (SMS13P) to cut video files together but have been looking for increased performance on final (...

For even a casual sneaker trainer addict, the image above will be enough to identify the shoe. How does the Nigo touch imprint on it'...

After a full domestic rewire, 7months in with no changes/no new appliances and we started to have the 'fuse box' tripping. How and...

Perspective distortion is an optical phenomenon that can be described as an illusion that occurs when using different focal lengths (wide vs...

Nikon CNX2's death was announced along with it's underwhelming successor, CNX-D, that offered very little backward compatabilities ...

Rediscovered 1990s hifi separates - needed to replace the CD tray gear/cog to avoid the grind...

This is a Z banana plug. Various companies like Nakamichi, Atlas and Chord make these, but this is bare Milty CC124 "BFA / Camcom...

I recently rediscovered the various bits of (entry level) hifi kit that I've accumulated over the years and then were relegated due to t...

The 50mm f/1.8G was Nikon's update to their cost effective 'D' and initial reviews where favourable . However, after using this...

There aren't too many things I hate about the iPhone but there are many around iTunes: the lock-ins, the inability to get data back out...

Adding harddisks to an old Dell E520 should be easy - it's built with easy slide compartments. And it would be easy if you are adding n...

The beauty dish is probably up there as an amateur's holy grail of lighting modifiers after they've exhausted the various umbrellas,...

Oh dear.. Whilst I don't care too much about dust on internal lens elements, I do care about the dreaded 'f' word.

Recent updates of Firefox and Java don't tend to play nice. I've had existing JRE 6 installations that were fine but then Mozilla a...

One thing that is apparent when looking through a recent FX viewfinder for the first time is the larger size when compared to the DX viewf...

It used to be pain to create bootable media (CD and USB) that would contain a standalone OS. Whilst this is somewhat (very) old news here...