Random Bits from Boredom

The old time manual Nikkors from circa 1977 had the designation of an AI lens and then sometime leading into 1981 the AI-S lenses replaced t...

A 200mm can be a useful focal length in the bag, albiet a less frequently used length. However the modern and autofocusing xx-200mm zooms a...

The circa 1980 Nikkor 20mm f/3.5 AI lens comes with a reputation for being flare resistant and reasonably sharp as well as being very lightw...

As with all storage, there comes a time where you exhaust the storage and you need to move up. After many years of service, the disks in my...

Many hardware (especially cheap) vendors will sell the same product but replace and gut the internal electronics. This makes finding compat...

The original 2011 Raspberry Pi model B (rev1) with its 256MB is dwarfed by it's younger siblings now but this can still be used a very c...

Basic maintanence and monitoring for your RPi can obviously be achieved by ssh into the machine but sometimes there needs to be an easier w...

One of the big advantages of the Raspberry Pi is that it's form factor makes it so portable; I can have a RPi moved around the home dep...

After jumping on the Raspberry Pi bandwagon, I wondered what could be done with the smallest/stripped down version of the RPi, the RPi Zero...

No messing around: setting up VMware to boot a physical Windows 10 installation from a (GPT) partition from Linux. physical installation ...

Recent successes in installing Fedora on a 2010 HP netbook and running virtualised WinXP and iTunes reminded me why I used to be a geek. ...

The wired USB Apple keyboard A1243 (MB110B/B)

I have most my music now ripped to mp3/flac but these either live on my iPhone or on a NAS .. playing them easily through a proper amplifier...

Recently I've needed to spend more time using the Fedora installation on my aging 2010 Dell Vostro however I've found various occas...

The Herman Miller Aeron has been available on the market since 1994 and since then there have been a few subtle changes to the parts since t...

Having successfully completed a recent Fedora 23 installation to an aging netbook, I started to grow frustrated with my ~6 year old aging ...

When using a low powered netbook as a travel companion running Linux , the Gnome EOG image viewer can be used to provide an initial review...

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...