Archive for September, 2008

Router I/O Bus Cable Problem

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

I am going to have to re-wire the router I/O Bus connection.  I opened the router case to investigate giving the I/O Bus it’s own 5v line - the little 78L05 regulator is really only capable of supplying 1 usb device.  I was running into power troubles hooking too many things to the I/O bus. (more…)

Blassic I2C Mains Remote Control

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Using the Remote Control Unit with the Pic I2C Slave connected to the Midge Router, it is possible to use Blassic to control regular mains devices via the the network.  Here is a sample. (more…)

EeePC, Portable Hdd & 3G Phone - On The Road!

Sunday, September 14th, 2008

Last week, I got a chance to use the system live, I was away for a week with only the EeePC system and a three.co.uk 3G phone from Sony for a modem.  All did not go well! (more…)

A VPS in the Home/Office

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

If a VMWare Server/Workstation or VMWare Player make life easy when mixing Linux and Windows on a single system, then a VPS will wipe the floor with them if you need to run several Linux environments and are not worried about high end graphics. (more…)

(Portable) Virtual Machines

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

I have used VMWare Workstation and more recently VMWare Player to both allow me to run Linux and Windows on the same computer and run several instances of Linux - to keep projects seperate from each other and to allow new versions of software to be tried without damaging the main working environment. (more…)