Archives for hardware

golden delicious

Apple have been busy.
Rumours of a worthy successor to the ipod mini turned out to be true(with an external finish bordering on practical).
Very, very glad I resisted the temptation to try to make a buck on the refurbed nanos that apple were pimping (although the DAB radios did very nicely, thanks for asking. If [...]

Stinkstation, more like

DISCLAIMER: As I said , I only run openlink so I can serve NFS (samba and netatalk are too slow for fullscreen video over 100Mbit). If I was running samba and/or appletalk I would probably not have had a problem.
That said: if you setup NFS on your linkstation, NEVER EVER EVER (ever) backup using the [...]

spam pays

I’m a bit of a Luddite, but sometimes things converge. 3 weeks ago:

I thought seriously about getting a PDA
I got junkmail from T-mobile
someone signed up for myspace, knocking me off my #1 slot

I wanted a PDA as I’ve become heavily dependant on rmilk (having outgrown tadalist and a free backpack account) and unfortunately I’m [...]