Archive for category Hardware
mirror & wiki server temporarily down
The host machine which is running the virtual machine “taper.alienbase.nl” and “docs.slackware.com” has malfunctioned. According to the story told by that server’s owner, the power cord got loose during the re-build of the RAID array after the guy replaced a failing hard drive. After a power-on the RAID volume refused to mount… It looks like [...]
Posted: 23 November, 2012 in Hardware, Me, Slackware.
Tags: slackdocs, taper
Comments: 6
My Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5
Back in february I bought the camera I had had my eyes on for over a year. It was a bit too expensive to consider it seriously, but then suddenly there was a discount of 75 euros and I grabbed the opportunity. A Panasonic DMC-LX5 was finally mine. I had been using a relatively cheap [...]
Posted: 8 August, 2012 in Hardware, Me.
Tags: bretagne, photography, raw
Comments: 16
My (first) Raspberry Pi arrived in the post
At last… I ordered a Raspberry Pi on May 11, 2012 and Farnell/Element14 delivered it to my home while I was on vacation. Go figure. The postman did not find us home of course, and rang our neighbors’ doorbell. He left the package there, and luckily that neighbor brought me the package the moment he [...]
Posted: 26 July, 2012 in Fun, Hardware.
Tags: ARM, raspi
Comments: 20
Raspberry Pi deserves Slackware
Some time ago I ran into this website promoting a very cheap computer the size of a credit card. The Raspberry Pi is being created by a charitable foundation. It is designed to “plug into a TV or be combined with a touch screen for a low cost tablet“. Typically its target is “teaching computer [...]
Posted: 27 November, 2011 in Hardware, Me, Slackware, Software.
Tags: ARM, OLPC, embedded
Comments: 27
Digitizing my paperback books
Part one: what do I want? I hinted at this topic in a previous post. I have a big collection of (mostly) paperback Science Fiction books – some hardcover books too. I used to read a lot more in the pre-Internet days, nowadays it’s just during my holidays that I get enough time to read [...]
Posted: 4 October, 2011 in Hardware, Me, Software.
Tags: ebook, ocr, scanning
Comments: 12