Category Archives: Mac

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
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
04
2012

bmi.js is not my baby

by Philip McGaw

I’m currently using a T-Mobile 3G mobile connection to do most of my web browsing, as well as the area I am living in not having any signal strength; I have been getting more and more miffed at the image compression and bmi.js, ( I have written about this before). Bmi.js, and I guess the image [...]

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Feb
23
2012

Task 72 – Learn to Program

by Skippy

On my Day Zero List is the desire to learn to program; one of the things that people have been playing with in their down time here at Pennant Traning Systems is Project Euler: What is Project Euler? Project Euler is a series of challenging mathematical/computer programming problems that will require more than just mathematical [...]

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Feb
22
2012

O2 and T-Mobile on Compressing the Web.

by Skippy

We have known for a while that O2 compress and manipulate the internet connection that they offer to their mobile internet users. For this test I am using the The ISO 12233 Target, and a randomly mildly ammusing mame I found online. The ISO 12233 target was developed for digital camera applications. It includes several diffrent patterns, [...]

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