So, with RuneAudio running on my Raspberry Pi, I had an audio player that I was fairly happy with. However, there were a couple of ways in which it was still in need of improvement. In my previous post on the subject, I noted that I was keen to set it up to use an …
So, having got my Raspberry Pi/RuneAudio setup in place, I started looking at my audio system as a whole, and wondering whether there were any other aspects of it that were worth upgrading. I’ve had my hi-fi for over 15 years: it was, I think, my 18th birthday present from my parents. It had served …
Since moving to Oxford last year, I have had a problem. I don’t have room for my CD collection. I have over 650 albums on CD, and I simply don’t have room at my house in Oxford to store more than a handful of them. Consequently they are still stored at my parents’ house in …
Just over a decade ago, in my third ever post on this here blog, I declared that “generally, I can’t be bothered with laptops.” Most of the reasons why I thought this are still valid. Desktops are more powerful for the money, more easily upgraded and more reliable. And while we live in a more …
Well, my project to create a custom WPS for Rockbox on Android has come to nothing. I did make a first attempt but I clearly got something wrong as it was so badly broken that it couldn’t even be displayed. I was planning to try again, but before I could do so, it was rendered …
After a little over a decade, Azathoth, my old desktop PC, has finally been retired. Of course, almost all of Azathoth had been replaced over the course of its lifetime so not all of it was actually 10 years old, but it still retained the original CPU and the rest of the system didn’t represent …
I am writing this post on a device that by convention I call a phone. The name isn’t utterly ridiculous; it is certainly capable of making and receiving phone calls. But by the same token I could just as easily call it a pocket calculator. It fits in my pocket and has a calculator function, …
Well, with the move to version 2, Amarok has gone from being actually quite usable provided you turn off all the annoying shit, to just plain annoying. So I’ve had to find a new audio player for Linux. Whenever I’ve tried Audacious before, there have been annoying bugs in the UI that make it unusable …
So, I now have an Eldar army for Epic Armageddon. The models from GW arrived on Tuesday and those from Forge World arrived this morning. Except, unfortunately, for the Falcon grav-tanks, which will apparently be sent later. Meanwhile my computer is up and running again, now that I’ve replaced the motherboard (and the RAM, while …
I’m really not sure how to interpret this error message. Err, what?