Category Archives: Tech

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
17
2012

Installing Lion on my Mac Mini – Part 2

by Skippy

Following on from Part One, I finally got round to playing with this a bit more; however I still have not had any luck with running Mac OS X Lion on my Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz Mid 2007 Mac (an A1283) with only 1 Gig of Ram  however I have bought 2 Gigs from Crucial with [...]

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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
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

O2 have blocked my 365

by Philip McGaw

  My Project 365 site seems to have been blocked from being accessed over 3G by O2, I have written about my feelings on O2′s content blocking before, most people I assume have already got pissed off with it and bitten the bullet since and ‘verified’ themselves since content blocking was imposed in March 2011. The restrictions are at the DNS level, meaning [...]

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Apr
11
2012

Home Made Keyboards – Part 1: Project Overview

by Skippy

A while ago I cam across the Stenograph system, and thought about making myself a Steno Keyboard or something smiler, looking into I found this: There are two types of keyboard used in the UK for STTRs (Speech to Text Reporter), the Palantype system and the Stenograph system. Unlike a QWERTY keyboard, not every letter in a [...]

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Apr
03
2012

Affordable Accessible Mouse – Part 4: Prototyping

by Skippy

After Running the code on my Teensy from Post Number Two, I moved onto mounting the buttons and joystick in a box, My Test device has nine buttons; rather than the severn that the finished product will have; plus the joystick’s four; but this allows me to tryout other configurations of buttons etc without having [...]

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