I've just traded up an IBM P4 workstation to a brand shiny new Dell E520 Dual core goodness. Well. Semi goodness. According to Wikipedia I have a 915 chip and it's the 9x0 ones that support x86 virtualization. Boo Hiss.
Anyway, Threw in a ubuntu AMD64 install and it's up n running in 30 mins. (once I'd nuked the 'orribly nasty "Vista Home Basic 32bit" install off it. I was looking forwards to all the aqua toys but thats apparently an upgrade...
XP install not so smooth. Blue Screen complaining of "Stop 0x0000007B" - probably the SATA Raid card? Well dells website doesn't have any handy "Use this driver disk to install XP" links and following a v good scotlug virtualisation talk I decided to throw on QEMU following this guide
Particulate measurements near bushfires
Back in the 2019 Tasmanian bushfires we were lucky enough to be the other side of the Huon River from the fireground, however we had a LOT...
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Those of you who follow my twitter stream will have noticed that I managed to 'lose' my home machine today. It was online and activ...
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There seem to be several branded versions of this cheap 2 unit wide energy meter available online from the regular stores. I have a 'tom... -
Many years ago we lived in the Old Manse in Waternish, Skye. If you look on the maps, you'll spot that unlike nearly all the other house...
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