A friend of mine came to me with the following issue. Her computer was slow and they took it to PC World. All the technicians did was to reinstall Windows from the Recovery partition. No change in performance… Then my friend realised she was missing some important documents!… I told her to stop using it immediately […]
Author: arkadian
We have a Friedland wireless bell. It’s the one of the Libra+ series. It’s a great bell (D913), but the battery life on the doorbell (D930) is poor. The push button uses a CR2032 coin battery, which provides 3V, but it only lasts for a month. Changing battery every month is far from ideal and […]
I was given an old IKEA Expedit case, flat packed, that was missing screws and dowels. One of the edges was broken, while the piece was being dismantled. I thought I could use it as storage/temp work bench until I had the time to build something more permanent. Fixing the broken piece was easy. […]
While on a business trip in Virginia, I saw this number plate: hmm… I accept Richard Stallman’s definition ofhacking: “Playfully doing something difficult, whether useful or not, that is hacking.” With this in mind, I’d ask the owner of this car: “why not?”
import sys, BaseHTTPServer from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler HandlerClass=SimpleHTTPRequestHandler ServerClass=BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer protocol = "HTTP/1.0" host = "192.168.0.185" port = 8888 server_address = (host, port) HandlerClass.protocol_version = protocol httpd = ServerClass(server_address, HandlerClass) sa = httpd.socket.getsockname() print "Serving HTTP on", sa[0], "port", sa[1], "…" httpd.serve_forever()import sys, BaseHTTPServer from SimpleHTTPServer import SimpleHTTPRequestHandler HandlerClass=SimpleHTTPRequestHandler ServerClass=BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer protocol = "HTTP/1.0" […]
And when we thought things couldn’t get smaller… Here is an amazing little board with plenty of i/o, wifi, micro-usb and on board antenna. Almost same size as an SD card and can be programmed with the Arduino IDE we all know and love. Wow! There is one thing this board needs. A new name. […]