Author Archives: Philip McGaw

May
18
2012

Installing Lion on my Mac Mini – Part 3: Lion Server

by Philip McGaw

Following  on from Parts one, and two, I now have a mac mini running OS X Lion, and will now be making Lofn into a Fulla replacement. Two small changes need to be made first though to make it less desktop like; and more Server Like (yes before installing Lion Server App). Power The single [...]

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May
18
2012

Home Made Keyboards – Part 2: More Ideas

by Philip McGaw

I have been looking around the internet for more ideas on Chording keyboards; and have come across more examples that I can use to refine my plan: The AgendA The AgendA is a British-designed organiser from the mid-80s. Its most striking feature is the microwriter keyboard. As if to encourage the use of the microwriter, the conventional [...]

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May
08
2012

Task 51 – Start my Own Business

by Philip McGaw

On my Day Zero List is to Start my Own Business; I have been toying with the idea of this for a while; and while I do poke Just Vigilantes for a while I have always been running it via a VM with Bytemark. I have also been trying to install Mac OS X Lion on my [...]

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Apr
30
2012

Solar Panel Research

by Philip McGaw

I am wondering how much energy we use from nbArianrhod’s batteries (3 x 110Ah) per day; I know this number will change over the course of a year; and that most of our peek energy requirements come from gas rather than electricity; however on average we still run the engine about two hours every day [...]

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Apr
26
2012

Book 5: The Axe Book

by Philip McGaw

I assume that b0atg1rl has at some time has acquired a Gränsfors Bruks hatchet or axe, as on nbArianrhod I found a copy of “The Axe Book” which is an introduction to the history and product line of Gränsfors Bruks, as well as a basic overview of the correct treatment and handling of axes. And [...]

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Apr
25
2012

Book 3: How to Start Your Own Business.

by Philip McGaw

Rico Nelson’s “How to Start Your Own Business: Step by Step Guide To Starting Your Own Business Volume 2” was a free kindle book that I picked up to have a flick through in relation to task 51 – Start my own Business from my day zero challenge. Most business startups fail. But many of those failures [...]

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Apr
12
2012

02 and the nanny state

by Philip McGaw

I finally got an answer back from O2 regarding the blocking of my website; it would appear that they have unilaterally decided that skippy.org.uk and 365.skippy.org.uk are Parental Controlled… The Website status checker  when you type in skippy.org.uk gives you this screen: Which to be honest is about as much use as a chocolate teapot; and gives you no information [...]

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Apr
12
2012

Book 2: Fox Talbot

by Philip McGaw

John Hannavy’s ”Fox Talbot: An Illustrated Life of Willian Henry Fox Talbot, ‘Father of Modern Photography’, 1800 -1877″ Fox Talbot is universally recognised as the father of modern photography. His ‘calotype’ or ‘Talbotype’ process was the first working photographic process to use the now familiar format of negatives and positives. He was an ambitious man but [...]

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