Tag: computers
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Passwords - The Least You Should Do
If you're reading this, there is at least a 95% chance that your passwords aren't good enough. You should fix them. Today.
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Windows XP Box
This is scary. This guy's managed to build a mini-ITX Windows XP box... inside a Windows XP box (by which I mean one of those boxes in which they ship copies of Windows XP). It's a full working computer (well, it runs Windows, but you know what I mean) inside the box that originally contained …
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Off To Norfolk!
Claire and I are leaving Aberystwyth for Norfolk! Off to spend Christmas with her folks before heading up to Preston on Boxing Day to be with my family.
Have barely begun wrapping presents. For that matter, I still haven't had delivered my mum's present. Or one of Claire's. Damned freaky postmen. Or something.
In any case, I'll … -
Late
Running late for work. Was supposed to get up and take laptop to Daton as part of an insurance scam, but I'm still at home after having woken up late. Still, Claire'll be at work until about 1am today... in Newtown... so there's no benefit to me coming home early. I'll work late.
Updated Troma Night … -
Cool Thing Of The Day
Cool And Interesting Thing Of The Day To Do At The University Of Wales, Aberystwyth, #35:
Raid a skip outside the computer labs, filled to the brim with semi-defunct equipment. Steal several cables, some dumb-terminal keyboards, and a PSU (which was funtional, but later caught fire). Spend much of the remainder of the afternoon taking broken … -
Declaration of Hardware
This declaration was posted to one of my first websites, on 22 April 1997; I'm not certain why. From the sounds of things I was using a school computer at the time. It was republished here on 22 March 2021.
I am using an RM PC-433S Accelerator on a 486 Nimbus Network, operating a Brother M-1824L …