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Blue Jotter: February 2012
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Monday, February 27, 2012. Android, Battery life. So, I switched to using an Android phone ( Samsung Galaxy S Plus. Good move; I'm always connected, never lost, never bored. and never more than three feet from a power point. Wow. Do these 'droids love a steady supply of electrons. I've got USB charging points at the ready on my desk, in my car, in different rooms in my house. Even my boat has sprouted DC sockets to support this charging obsession. Absolutely unbelievable value for money. Just buy it.
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Blue Jotter: Installing DELL laptop drivers from CABs
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012. Installing DELL laptop drivers from CABs. Recently, I had to rebuild my Dell laptop. Not fun. Hoping to save someone else a little time, here is how I got all the drivers sorted:. I used the model code (printed in a shallow recess on the underside) to find a CAB on the Dell website containing all the drivers for that machine. Big download - almost a gigabyte - but so handy to have them all in one file! Extracting the drivers from the CAB:. Into the text field.
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Blue Jotter: October 2012
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012. Installing DELL laptop drivers from CABs. Recently, I had to rebuild my Dell laptop. Not fun. Hoping to save someone else a little time, here is how I got all the drivers sorted:. I used the model code (printed in a shallow recess on the underside) to find a CAB on the Dell website containing all the drivers for that machine. Big download - almost a gigabyte - but so handy to have them all in one file! Extracting the drivers from the CAB:. Into the text field.
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Blue Jotter: Android, Battery life
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Monday, February 27, 2012. Android, Battery life. So, I switched to using an Android phone ( Samsung Galaxy S Plus. Good move; I'm always connected, never lost, never bored. and never more than three feet from a power point. Wow. Do these 'droids love a steady supply of electrons. I've got USB charging points at the ready on my desk, in my car, in different rooms in my house. Even my boat has sprouted DC sockets to support this charging obsession. Absolutely unbelievable value for money. Just buy it.
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Blue Jotter: October 2010
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010. Sugru hack saved my camcorder. My first camcorder was just a little bit disappointing; the zoom lense was such that it could easily film far-away stuff (e.g. I could just about make out the whitening of the pole during a Martian winter), but the field of view was way too narrow for close-up stuff (e.g. my fast-moving toddler). Years of miserable narrow-angle filming followed. Then, along came Sugru! Wide-angle adapter mounted with (blue) sugru. I'm thrilled with the result - ...
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Blue Jotter: August 2011
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Monday, August 8, 2011. Dementia plays many an unkind trick; one of the more dangerous is wandering. When you find a parent or spouse leaving the house half-dressed in the middle of the night, it's clear you are very close to having a tragedy on your hands. No-one can stay vigilant and. Burglars, customers) rather than departures. I was wrong about the "inconspicuous" bit, though: the man the alarm is intended to save now refers to it as "the Dad-catcher". Kind of a you've-got-to-laugh-or-you'ld-cry ...
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Blue Jotter: August 2010
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010. Reviving an old laptop: Puppy Linux. We have a shiny new laptop with a lovely wide screen and a multi-core processor; we love it very much and use it a lot. Meanwhile, our old laptop has been sitting idle - even when it would be handy to have a second. Laptop handy for some really essential. Web-browsing, we couldn't bear the eons-long boot-time and the extremely sluggish browsing experience that followed. I was very impressed to find that Puppy had no problem recognizing all my ...
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Blue Jotter: July 2010
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Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Printing in 3D with Shapeways: a review. I still remember the magic of listening to my first printer (dot-matrix) clattering into life, and of watching as, ever so slowly, blank paper went in and printed words and pictures came out. It was an amazing moment of creation; how far removed from the painstaking effort of calligraphy or hand-sketching! One ring to bind them. So, how did it turn out? Very easy to use. Upload your model, wait for them to check it can be printed, the...
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Blue Jotter: May 2010
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Monday, May 31, 2010. Making a rudder, part 4: designing gudgeons. With my rudder blade is almost ready for the water, so time to think about it can connect to the boat. To hang it from Briongloid's. Figure 1: Gudgeons ( yellow. Allow a transom-hung rudder ( blue. To pivot about a vertical axis ( red. Weight for weight, the median sample of carbon fibre. Has six times the tensile strength of stainless steel. So much for strength: what about friction? This is a moving. Part, a type of bearing, and Mr....
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Blue Jotter: April 2010
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Sunday, April 11, 2010. Taking the long way around. In which no rudders are mended, but some beautiful footage is watched. As the weather finally warms enough for epoxy to set and my boat repairs to continue, I'm looking forward more and more eagerly to (re)launch day. Until then, perhaps the next best thing is to watch a man called Dylan Winters circumnavigating Britain. Very slowly in "the slug" , a Mirror Offshore. S have been a recurring them. Enough talking; if you take even a passing interest in th...
