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Server upgraded

Parallelpoints.com is now running Squeeze (or Debian 6.0 as it’s more formally known). I’m not a full-time admin, so I greatly appreciated the Debian upgrade guide - it reminds you of all the stuff you have …

Stopping Laserjet 5 jams

Thanks to a kit of new rollers from Daytona plc and detailed service manual from HP for my Laserjet 5M, it’s now printing without jams again! Should last another 100k pages now I hope (Note to self for next time - …

Aerial (or antenna!) wiring

We’ve been having a bunch of building work done, and today we finally moved the TV back downstairs to the new room! Built the new TV bench, hauled all the kit downstairs, plugged in… “No signal” …

Interview on EEWeb

Well, I’m “featured engineer” on EEWeb today. I never expected to ever have my name featured on the same page as such luminaries as Bob Pease, Jeri Ellsworth, Howard Johnson or Limor Fried, to name but …

FPGAs and ARMs - a summary

Today, I compared the new combined ARM and FPGA devices from Xilinx and Altera. This post summarises that rather long post! Summary Well, there’s two interesting new series of devices. Both chip families look …