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Emulating a Sun.

A week ago, after completing the installation of a Raspberry Pi into an old Sun CDROM drive external enclosure, I posted a picture of the enclosure on Facebook. The response from an old friend was,...

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systemd is pants!

OK, let’s get this out in the open… systemd is *PANTS* Phew! That’s better. I’ve just spent most of the day trying to get a Linux system to reliably mount a disk attached via iSCSI over ethernet at...

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It’s been 30 years since the announcement of an important computing product…

and I’m not talking about the Macintosh. In the news at the moment there’s been a number of stories about the launch 30 years ago of the Apple Macintosh with its flash media event and slick marketing...

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2014 – The year of retro-computing.

For me, other than health issues which I won’t say any more about here, 2014 has been a year dominated by retro-computing sparked off by the call from the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford for...

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This is the Age of the Train… again?

Having been interested in the railways since the mid-1970s it was with some interest I saw an article on the BBC News web site today about the replacement of the old “Inter-City 125″, or “High Speed...

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EDTracker Setting Up and Use with Elite: Dangerous

Over last weekend I attended the Lavecon event just outside Northampton. This event came out of the fan response to the development and release of Elite: Dangerous from Frontier Developments and...

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Happy Brexit (The EU is over.)

To paraphrase John Lennon’s Christmas song, “So this is Brexit, what have you done?” Well, the electorate of the UK, look what you have done… Happy now? Still, there’s no point in crying over the spilt...

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I have a dream… or rather nightmare.

I have a rather bad scenario going around my head about World events at the moment which I really hope doesn’t play out. After Trump and Steve Bannon engineer the fall of democracy and the rise of the...

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On the Origin of Technological Civilisation.

This morning a friend posted an image of a supernova on Facebook and wondered just home many civilisations died as a result. Now, if you take the standard Drake equation and use that as a basis of your...

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Retro-review: British “business” computers of 1985. The ACT Apricot F1 vs....

In 1984 Sir Clive Sinclair announced the QL as his answer to a “business computer”, costing £399, and the year later ACT released their follow-up to the Apricot PC, the F1, in a stylish new slim...

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