Category Archive for ‘Tech’
Dell Inspiron, HDMI, 5.1 / DTS / Dolby Digital – Getting it to work
Wow this stumped me for ages… I knew I’d had it working before so why wasn’t it working now? Long story short I’ve got it working as follows: AC3Filter installed Main tab – Check the “Use SPDIF” box SPDIF tab Check the “Use SPDIF” box SPDIF Passthrough section check all the boxes I unchecked the [...]
BT Infinity for Bury St Edmunds.. it’s here and “I like it. I like it a lot.”
For those left reading (or caring) about mine and Bury’s Infinity and ISP exploits it’s here and I feel like I’m in the future! The engineer arrived right on time and cracked on straight away, locating my phone line in the cabinet within 15 mins and coming back armed with a few tools an exciting VDSL [...]
BT Infinity router arrived – Ports and all
Got home to find a tracked parcel had been delivered that was a shrinkwrapped BT Infinity Home Hub for my install on Friday 15th.. woo! Took some pics as I’d previously looked around for what connections / ports the home hub has and drew a blank (admittedly it was a lazy search!) Looks pretty standard.. [...]
Bury St Edmunds – FTTC, Fibre, LLU … find an ISP..
I live in Bury St Edmunds, a lovely market town but not normally blessed with spanking new technology like FTTC (Fibre To The Cabinet), as I wrote about in this blog post, it’s coming here. Very soon.. I thought it’d be interesting for other Bury St Edmunds people to know why the previous blog post [...]
Mac Mini – new model
A couple of months ago I had a nice surprise. As previously mentioned I’m technically reviewing the multimobile development book and as a large section of the first book involves iPhone development I’d need access to a Mac to review and comment. Whilst using a mac elsewhere I didn’t have one at home and thought [...]
Drobo FS – Power supply / PSU buzzing
I’ve noticed a few hits from people searching for Drobo FS information so thought I’d write a few more posts about my experiences so far.. The subject of this post should be indicative of the content… Power supply buzzing seems to be a common issue with Drobo owners, my power supply suffered from a high [...]
FTTC, FTTP and 40Mbps fibre. How to make a nerd happy.
I’m at home berating my ADSL router again. Screaming at it to give me more than 0.3Mbps (I live in a 3 year old house on a new estate but a bit too far from the exchange for my liking, I’ve gone from 6Mpbs to not even being able to stream Spotify tracks. It’s amazing [...]
Draytek 2710n ADSL router
As part of my “operation upgrade stuff cos I’ve finally got spare cash” I decided now would be a good time to upgrade my router and go to wireless N ( with the impending arrival of the Xbox Slim) I had a decent look round for a router capable of N, gigabit network and ADSL [...]
The Twitter effect – Want website hits? Get DDOS’d by Stepen Fry
So what happens when a Twitter celeb like Stephen Fry tweets or re-tweets a link (usually to a worthy cause)? At time of writing Stephen has 1,620,825 followers … I think from that figure you can do the math on even a miniscule 10% click thru rate… It’s not the number of hits that tends [...]
Xbox 360 Slim – A summary and review
My delightful cherub of a son was watching TV rather closely without a nappy on. On came the sprinkler systems and my 4 year old first gen. Xbox was met with a piss-stained death. How undignified! As mentioned in a previous blog I decided to buy myself a new one (the old unit was v. [...]