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‘Fixing’ a Commodore 64
A while back I made a nostalgic impulse purchase on eBay and ended up with a Commodore 64 – a real breadbin style one, with no emulation in sight. This was my first ever computer and I have fond memories of playing countless games, waiting patiently for things to load from tape, and borrowing library […]
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Fixing Sony A7 LCD delamination
I’m a big Sony camera fan, and I’ve been using an A7 for the past few years. Recently I noticed the rear LCD was showing a lot of patchy discolouration. It was starting to get very noticeable and distracting, and was only getting worse. It turns out the camera has a built-in screen protector, and […]
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Super Nintendo Mini Classic, for kids
I bought a SNES Mini Classic recently. The original wasn’t that popular when I was young – more of an American thing I think – and I didn’t know anyone with one, so I was very curious. The closest I got as a kid was The Great Giana Sisters on the Commodore 64 (a Super […]
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Speeding up a Synology rebuild
After purchasing a Synology NAS I inserted a bunch of drives and left ‘expanding’ overnight. When I came back in the morning it had gone from 2% to 5% complete – about 95% less than what I was hoping. I discovered that you can SSH into the box and check the status of the rebuild […]
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Clearing Chrome’s DNS cache
If you ever need to point a domain name at an IP address, for sandboxing during development, or for whatever reasons, then Chrome can be a real nuisance. It seems to cache the domain name and refuses to use your new IP address. Recent versions supposedly monitor /etc/hosts, and if you view the DNS cache […]
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