Posts by Colin

Powercool Smart UPS 850VA

Powercool Smart UPS 850VA

Today I picked up a very cheap PSU.  This was admittedly an experiment to see what this thing is good...

Installing MySQL

Installing MySQL

MySQL is going to be the back end database for the server.  It’s a fairly good RDBMS (Relational database management...

Building a Lamp box using debian linux

Building a Lamp box using debian linux

LAMP – Linux, Apache, MySql & PHP.  These software packages installed together make for an extremely powerful way of hosting...

Freeing my guidescope

Freeing my guidescope

For several years I’ve been using the same guidescope setup.  That is, a SkyWatcher ST80 mounted onto my Meade LX-90. ...

iPlayer on the Pi

iPlayer on the Pi

I can’t take credit for this.  here’s how to get the BBC iPlayer working on RaspBMC.  As I said, I...

Quake 3 running on a PI

Quake 3 running on a PI

There were rumours about his before launch. but it’s true.  rather and make a complete tutorial for this.  The answer...

Linux running on the PI.

Linux running on the PI.

The Raspberry PI is supposed to be an educational tool.  For that, the good folks over as the Raspberry Foundation...

What will my PI be for?

What will my PI be for?

What use is the Raspberry PI for me?   The biggest surprise for this little device is that is has...

My Pi

My Pi

I came home on friday night to find a jiffy bag waiting behind my door.  The content was my Raspberry...

Secondbar

Secondbar

One of the defining features of OS X, is that the menu bar is at the top of the screen....