20100705 Building a quiet PC

My main computer is a PC I assembled myself two years ago. While I don’t like fixing somebody else’s computer, I quite enjoy fine-tuning mine and learning about it in the process. It is a bit of a beast (for my purposes) with a Quad Core and lots of memory, hard disk bays (I never [...]

20090211 From Pipex to Be (via BT)

2004: Bulldog When we moved to our first flat, we signed up for a DSL connection with Bulldog. It was really good: reliable connection, the corporate image was quite decent, and the online clients area (the lounge, as they called it) was usable. Since then, several disastrous things happened with Bulldog. It was first sold [...]

20090210 Mac mini as a headless server

Last week our humble home server decided it wouldn’t boot any more, and as I had been postponing the migration to a new home server for too long (around six months I think), it was the moment to really do it. We had been warned several times already: it wouldn’t turn on sometimes. Other times [...]

20080902 PSP joystick & buttons

Following the installation of the toolchain, I decided to make a little program to get some information about the PSP’s interface, from the programmers point of view. That is, it would use SDL’s joystick functions to find out how many axis and buttons and which codes did they report to the program. Although it might [...]

20080131 DIY: Replacing my powerbook’s hard drive

It is a natural-born traveller: I had owned it for less than one month and was already travelling to Barcelona with it; next came several more visits to different cities, in Spain (Madrid, Valencia, Seville) or in Europe indistinctly (Frankfurt, Helsinki). It even was my commuting companion during the month that I was working in [...]