Rubenerd: Hardware

Hardware post archive

2023-06-02 Using M2 Wi-Fi card slots for other things
2023-05-28 Remembering how the Nintendo Wii was cracked
2023-05-27 A cool Adaptec AHA-1542CP ISA SCSI card
2023-05-26 A new old-stock floppy drive
2023-05-25 The enforceability of boilerplate
2023-05-06 Buying parts online and iRL
2023-05-04 An enigma of a VGA cable
2023-05-03 Retrocomputing info is easy to find, until it isn’t
2023-05-02 Researching if Commodore’s PCs were profitable
2023-04-30 Pronouncing “composite” video
2023-04-11 USB 1.1 Alien Tape Megasaur Spurtles
2023-04-11 A disk-on-module with my Am386
2023-04-09 An apartment tower of lithium
2023-04-08 A 30-pin RAM upgrade for my Am386
2023-04-07 Aftermarket Commodore power supplies
2023-04-05 An Intel i387SL coprocessor for my AMD Am386SX
2023-04-01 The ESS AudioDrive ES1868F for sound and IDE
2023-04-01 Equinix retiring copper
2023-03-27 My 386SX’s working Acer MIO-400 IO card
2023-03-25 I fixed my 1991 386SX-16/20CN motherboard!
2023-03-23 My new ISA/PCI PC diagnostic card
2023-03-19 Why are they called du Pont connectors?
2023-03-18 Libraries were full of tech inflexion points
2023-03-16 Parts reviewers, clickbait, and absolute price
2023-03-14 FreeBSD and NetBSD laptop feedback: the Framework
2023-03-13 Retrocomputing is as much optimism as an escape
2023-03-13 Researching a new FreeBSD or NetBSD laptop
2023-03-07 Filter jugs should be rectangular
2023-03-07 A 1990 encyclopædia on phones and packet switching
2023-03-02 Breaking a Commodore 16 key, and retrocomputer storage
2023-03-01 AliExpress anime and electronics comments
2023-02-28 Daniel Aleksandersen on split keyboard accessibility
2023-02-26 Restoring my 1983 “Aldi” Commodore VC-20
2023-02-25 GamersNexus on support training and scripts
2023-02-25 The economic and social effect of sealed devices
2023-02-14 Time magazine discusses successful tech failures
2023-02-13 A legacy PC drive update: little works!
2023-02-12 Feedback: preventing streaks when retrobrighting
2023-02-11 W-whoops, buying a Commodore VC-20
2023-02-06 Comparing VIC-20 and C64 cart sizes
2023-02-01 Adrian Black explains his TRS-80 diagnostic
2023-01-31 Setting tech expectations
2023-01-27 Greg’s experience with a smart phone
2023-01-24 Obsolete tech: the Battery Daddy
2023-01-21 Printers and wasted tech potential
2023-01-20 Things I’d love to build this year
2023-01-18 Thoughts on an entirely new Commodore 64
2023-01-17 I fixed my beautiful little Commodore Plus/4!
2023-01-12 The ThinkPhone
2023-01-11 The great Commodore/Atari engineer swap
2023-01-10 Using PCI slots for SSD brackets
2023-01-09 What happened to data sims for tablets?
2023-01-08 Time spent looking at my phone
2023-01-02 My final Commodore 128 Retr0bright post
2022-12-31 Fascinating new pencil soldering irons
2022-12-31 Another smart camera leaking information
2022-12-30 That elusive Commodore 128 80-column mode
2022-12-24 Flickering caused by a hot MOS 8565R2
2022-12-23 High idle power on AMD’s RDNA3 cards
2022-12-22 A late review of the M1 MacBook Air
2022-12-21 Cleaning and retr0brighting a Commodore 64C
2022-12-16 The Fractal Ridge Mini-ITX Case
2022-12-14 I… bought a Commodore 64C
2022-12-10 The patch in my Commdoore 1541 was official!
2022-11-14 The “joy” of retro IT web searches
2022-10-13 STH’s Supermicro X13SAE-F board review
2022-10-13 Canon Canoscan LiDE220 review
2022-10-08 Thinking about AMD’s 7000 series CPUs
2022-09-29 Raspberry Pis in racks or PCI slots
2022-09-23 Cartron asks what FreeBSD machines I use
2022-09-16 Peter Millard compares and contrasts sanders
2022-09-14 My favourite USB key ever: The Toshiba PA5003A
2022-09-08 Backing the VisionFive 2 RISC-V dev board
2022-09-08 The iPhone 14
2022-09-06 Discovering 850 watt SFX power supplies exist
2022-09-06 Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM
2022-09-04 AMD Ryzen 7000
2022-08-19 The NCR-80 vintage mechanical keyboard kit
2022-08-12 Features every microwave should have
2022-08-10 A year of using a FreeBSD laptop without a GUI
2022-08-07 An obstinate port-forwarding router
2022-07-27 GPU prices a bit closer to normalcy
2022-07-26 Q&A about my NW-A55 Walkman
2022-07-22 Number pads
2022-07-21 Jeff Geerling’s all-flash NAS
2022-07-08 Uses for tangled earbud cables
2022-07-06 Hamaji Neo reviews Gateron Yellow switches
2022-07-04 The Internet’s short memory for retrocomputing
2022-07-02 My new Sony NW-A55 Walkman! Also a review
2022-06-26 The tech nostalgia bathtub curve
2022-06-26 Adventures with mould and dehumidifiers
2022-06-19 Cathode Ray Dude on retro hardware collecting
2022-06-16 Rebecca, Michael recommend the Gateron Black Ink V2 keyswitches
2022-06-15 Quest for a thocky split keyboard like my Topre
2022-06-14 My own drive reliability stats
2022-06-11 Portable digital audio players still exist
2022-06-07 The CERBERUS 2080
2022-06-03 The wondrous LG A9 CordZero vacuum cleaner
2022-05-24 The first iPhone, and portable music in 2022
2022-05-20 Goodies from @GamersNexus arrived!
2022-05-13 The hot (running) AMD Radeon 6950 XT
2022-05-08 Fun with AIOs: The Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280
2022-05-04 My Hahndorf Inn Hotel mug
2022-04-11 A market failure with sunk costs
2022-04-10 A list of my first computers
2022-04-08 Buy LG fridges, not Westinghouse
2022-03-30 Nvidia’s RTX 3090 Ti
2022-03-29 The most satisfying connectors
2022-03-27 Birthday Ryzen Minecraft shaders!
2022-03-26 Down to my last Aeropress filter
2022-03-24 My Apothecary Coffee mug
2022-03-19 Pouring one out for David Boggs
2022-03-18 Challenges with mini-ITX builds in 2022
2022-03-17 The RTX 3070, and chasing the shiny
2022-03-10 Feedback on 4K KVMs
2022-03-10 Learning about fan controllers
2022-03-09 The new iPhone SE is still good
2022-03-07 Are DisplayPort or HDMI KVMs any good?
2022-03-05 Cancelling my Presario Sleeper PC project
2022-03-05 No bad products, only bad prices?
2022-03-04 Personal technology insight and cynicism
2022-03-01 The iPhone 8 (and SE) are still better iPhones
2022-02-25 Review: @PCCaseGear in Australia is awesome
2022-02-23 JayzTwoCents on guilt about hobbies
2022-02-19 Graphics card feedback
2022-02-18 Phantom phone vibrations
2022-02-17 Buying a new graphics card
2022-02-17 A numbered list of encountered tech
2022-02-13 A 12 TB SATA Ultrastar hard drive saves the day
2022-02-08 Raspberry Pi OS is now 64-bit
2022-02-05 My retrocomputer projects, Q1 2022
2022-02-02 The iPad Mini 6’s weird aspect ratio
2022-01-30 The PinePhone keyboard case
2022-01-28 Doc Searls versus printers
2022-01-27 Always check for the wrong item too
2022-01-25 Battery-powered trains
2022-01-24 Finding a cute 386 or 486 desktop
2022-01-23 Wouter Groeneveld digresses
2022-01-23 Our January 2022 apartment cleanout
2022-01-21 Microfibre cloths
2022-01-21 My “new” IBM WorkPad 20X Palm PDA!
2022-01-19 A home NAS of the future
2022-01-18 Farewell to my Kindle Paperwhite
2022-01-15 Steps towards more recycling in Singapore
2022-01-13 Beige-o-Vision introducing the PiDP-11
2022-01-12 Learning of BlueSCSI
2022-01-04 The Ricoh GR IIIx
2022-01-03 The Maja 2 split keyboard
2021-12-31 End of year thoughts on consolidating stuff
2021-12-28 Formatting SD cards in the Nintendo Switch
2021-12-28 If nobody wants to use smartphones, what then?
2021-12-26 The Nintendo Switch Lite is my new 2DS
2021-12-18 The Raspberry Pi 400 as a couch game machine
2021-12-15 The Raspberry Pi A+, and Pi-Hole
2021-11-11 The iPad mini 6
2021-10-23 Spycrowsoft on reusing stuff
2021-10-23 Dell 27-inch 4K panels as Retina displays
2021-10-20 The M1X MacBook Pros
2021-10-20 The simplex ambidextrous?
2021-10-19 Privacy and trust as a luxury good
2021-10-19 One step closer to my new FreeBSD tower
2021-10-14 Dreaming of soap and door nomenclature
2021-09-30 Greyscale screens for anxiety
2021-09-29 My first shipped DOA drive
2021-09-22 Repairability of laptops
2021-09-18 A 1 TB DIMM, with a clock speed of 2!
2021-09-17 Apps are a poor replacement for hardware
2021-09-12 Feedback on Braun shaver cables
2021-09-06 The state of second-hand GPUs in 2021
2021-09-06 What Apple mouses and Braun shavers share
2021-08-30 Researching GPU options for my sleeper PC
2021-08-27 Docks charging more than just kettles
2021-08-16 The Cloud Media Remote for the PS4
2021-08-12 The LG Gram: does it have PC Screen Syndrome?
2021-08-10 Missing things in our home
2021-08-07 My sleeper PC... curse!
2021-08-04 Micah R Ledbetter’s ErgoDox feedback
2021-08-03 Expanding our FreeBSD home file server
2021-07-27 Fourier transforming X-ray diffraction patterns before computers
2021-07-24 Motherboard standoffs for weird case sizes
2021-07-22 Comparing PC all-in-ones to the iMac
2021-07-21 Finally buying a Compaq spaceship
2021-07-21 Feedback about the Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard
2021-07-20 The Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard 2019
2021-07-16 Acer’s antimicrobial laptop
2021-07-07 Feedback on repurposed eBay packaging
2021-07-05 Dodgy listings using repurposed packaging
2021-07-04 The home storage crisis, via Doc Searls
2021-06-27 Revisiting webcam covers
2021-06-25 Searching for a CD storage system
2021-06-19 A Commodore 128 shipping update
2021-06-18 Some of these kitchen gadgets we do need
2021-06-16 Laptop, tablet, smartphone, or phone?
2021-06-02 FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note CF-RZ6
2021-05-29 LCD Android phones to sync with FreeBSD
2021-05-25 More cores are good
2021-05-18 The M1 Mac: “seems fine”
2021-05-06 My new (replacement!) Palm IIIx
2021-05-04 Linus Tech Tips: Nothing EVER works!
2021-05-01 Palm LifeDrive in a Windows 2000 QEMU VM
2021-04-25 My Palm LiveDrive!
2021-04-22 Whimsy and the new coloured iMacs
2021-04-21 Palm PDA nostalgia on its way!
2021-04-12 Feedback about a slow CF card
2021-04-10 Newer CF card slower in my Pentium tower
2021-04-09 Repairing, not replacing old parts
2021-04-05 Apologising to wpa_supplicant and FreeBSD Wi-Fi
2021-04-04 Rediscovering one of our family computers
2021-04-03 A mini, portable display for Commodore gear?
2021-04-02 Now obsolete MacBooks still have better screens
2021-03-28 Best attribute for 8-bit enthusiasts: patience
2021-03-27 Our bathroom hippo
2021-03-19 The VIA VT82C586B PCI, PC97 controller
2021-03-18 A Commodore 128 and TED monitor stand
2021-03-16 My Commodore 1571 drive arrived!
2021-03-12 Why did initials on MOS chips disappear?
2021-03-11 Reliability of cassette tapes and disks
2021-03-09 Moving on from Apple
2021-03-06 Troubleshooting my Commodore 128’s 80-column mode, part one
2021-03-05 Missing MacBook Pro features returning
2021-03-04 Headphones as a social signal
2021-03-02 Retr0brighting my Commodore 128 keyboard
2021-03-02 Slanty road barrier things
2021-03-01 Troubleshooting a Commodore 1541 disk drive
2021-02-27 Necessity versus rarity in online auctions
2021-02-24 Gadget-like computers, or computer-like gadgets?
2021-02-24 Stores for Commodore 128 components
2021-02-21 Comprehensive Breville BKE395 kettle review
2021-02-21 Fixing my unbootable Commodore 128
2021-02-18 Almost wrote about my Commodore 128
2021-02-14 Douglas Brebner on integration and complexity
2021-02-08 A point to consider before retr0brigting
2021-02-06 That complexity inflection point
2021-01-28 Not just the price limiting EV adoption
2021-01-27 Today’s errors
2021-01-15 Difference between 19200 and 19200R ECC RAM
2021-01-11 Dynabook screens
2021-01-06 Graphics cards getting even pricier
2021-01-05 Merging power buttons on appliances
2021-01-04 2.5 and 5GbE adaptors
2020-12-30 The world’s chunkiest card reader
2020-12-15 Toodles and Michael Tsai on OLED iPhones
2020-12-05 Responses to my new homelab server
2020-12-03 Building a new homelab server
2020-11-27 Security flaws in smart doorbells
2020-11-26 737 Max issues were people
2020-11-24 Here are some related, incompatible items
2020-11-17 @Spycrowsoft on OLED sensitivity
2020-11-13 Scatterbrain Apple M1 chip thoughts
2020-11-03 Hales warns us of greymarket electronics
2020-11-01 Equinix data centre advice
2020-10-28 Antranig Vartanian on RSS, HiDPI, Apple Silicon
2020-10-27 Becky Hansmeyer, Dan Benjamin on the iPhone 12
2020-10-26 Wait, that heatsync isn’t really copper?
2020-10-15 OLED-sensitive people left out from the iPhone 12
2020-10-02 My new-ish 16-inch MacBook Pro
2020-09-30 Feeling guilt upon buying something
2020-09-30 AC3 is not AAC
2020-09-20 Ethernet papercuts
2020-09-12 We need physical audio kill switches
2020-09-11 A KONE lift diagnostic test tool and decoder
2020-09-07 System76 laptop displays
2020-09-04 FOSS laptops and subpar displays
2020-08-25 Uncommon Advansys Iomega Jaz Jet SCSI-II cards
2020-08-21 New computers don’t feel faster
2020-08-18 Phones before the iPhone
2020-08-14 Tech hardware fails, as written in 2012
2020-08-06 Testing a new machine
2020-08-03 The 3.5 mm headphone jack
2020-07-27 The Kos Porta Pro X headphones
2020-07-23 Naming five Hi-Fi brands
2020-07-15 My new/old Technics SL-J300R turntable
2020-07-12 Andranig Vartanian on Solaris, with more nostalgia
2020-07-04 Follow-up to AT power supplies
2020-07-02 The Athena AT40 400W AT power supply
2020-06-28 Blog retrospective: 720K floppies
2020-06-23 Goodbye Home-Fix, and Singapore’s DIY scene
2020-06-23 More FreeBSD HPE Microserver homelab answers
2020-06-17 ARM Macs (but RISC-V would be cooler)
2020-06-12 The speed of technology
2020-06-07 Booting FreeBSD off the HPE MicroServer Gen8 ODD SATA port
2020-06-05 My humble homelab, with awful ASCII diagrams
2020-06-04 The 2020 iPhone SE
2020-06-02 What’s missing from NAS reviews
2020-05-11 Other SMR considerations
2020-05-05 Hidden shingled-drive follow-up
2020-04-27 The Shingled magnetic recording NAS debacle
2020-03-27 The Onkyo C-707
2020-03-24 FreeBSD 12.1 on a new (to me) ThinkPad T550
2020-03-11 Figuring out Hi-Fi component dimensions
2020-02-28 Kenwood DEM-9991D circuit diagram
2020-02-24 HO-scale R-761
2020-02-23 Arena Unix II swim cap
2020-02-10 Coronavirus info from data centres
2020-02-02 Rediscovering LaserDiscs
2020-01-20 Music Monday: IBM PS/2 It!
2020-01-12 Intel’s discrete GPUs at CES
2020-01-06 A technical admission
2020-01-05 Technical accuracy, and the whole product concept
2019-12-25 Curious case of the 32 GiB key with only 64 MiB
2019-12-18 Solution to blocking home recording
2019-11-28 The Hyperion luggable from 1983
2019-11-24 Trying the new 16-inch MacBook Pro
2019-11-15 Replacing the phone
2019-11-15 16-inch MacBook Pro
2019-10-28 Android biometrics in October 2019
2019-10-21 Fun with online ECC memory shopping
2019-10-17 Current ThinkPads with HiDPI
2019-10-15 Consolidating all the things, also watches
2019-10-10 iPhone typing accuracy declines
2019-09-27 Choosing a new pocket camera
2019-09-09 The Sony StorStation Ditto tape drive
2019-09-08 iTelephone 2019 wish list
2019-09-06 Rambling on biology and tech
2019-09-05 iOS always forgets what audio I was playing
2019-08-17 ThinkPad feedback from @sjdorst
2019-08-15 The ThinkPad X40, an all-time favourite
2019-08-07 Choosing a NAS
2019-07-29 10x Engineers: The brilliant jerks
2019-07-10 Covering laptop cameras, revistied
2019-07-09 ThinkPads and MacBooks
2019-07-05 Dan Benjamin on computers as tools
2019-07-04 Ken Akamatsu on the Raspberry Pi 4 model B
2019-07-01 Why do most PC laptops have awful screens?
2019-06-27 HPE buying Cray
2019-06-20 KVM trolley suggestions for data centre operators
2019-06-17 Jaycar external RAID box with FreeBSD and ZFS
2019-06-16 The Mid-range utility Mac
2019-06-13 Roman numeral IIII on clocks
2019-06-10 A purpose-built FreeBSD home bhyve box
2019-06-06 Percussive maintenance
2019-06-04 Relief for the 2019 Mac Pro
2019-05-22 Hard drive capacities: a 2008 retrospective
2019-05-22 2019 MacBook Pros
2019-05-14 Goodbye tanakasuka, my last RAIDZ-1 ZFS pool
2019-05-05 Kao laundry powder scoop analysis
2019-05-03 SCSI to CompactFlash for vintage PCs
2019-04-28 Commodore SFD-1001, and the Teac FD-505
2019-04-25 The Cayenne Convection Oven
2019-04-23 Fully-recyclable Adidas shoes
2019-04-06 Buying philosophy for computer hardware
2019-04-04 Using a 4K LG UltraFine display with FreeBSD?
2019-03-15 Tethering is still voodoo
2019-03-09 No FreeBSD on the Libretto any more
2019-03-09 Storage versus RAM configurability
2019-03-08 My colleague’s MT3 profile board
2019-03-05 Technical reasons may often be insufficient
2019-03-04 1993 Computer Chronicles on Spectre
2019-03-04 Opening a Kensington Orbit Trackball
2019-02-25 Ergolux corner standing desk
2019-02-24 Simpson Strong Tie Set Xp Msds
2019-02-21 Apple’s rumoured 16-inch MacBook Pro
2019-02-04 Goodbye, AT&T data centres
2019-02-02 A list of lightweight laptops from 2018
2019-02-01 Ranking of laptop keyboards
2019-01-31 State of Apple in 2018
2019-01-12 Predictable issues with video doorbells
2019-01-11 The European Space Agency store
2019-01-07 Vortex Race 3 keyboard
2019-01-03 Why OLED phone screens suck for some of us
2019-01-02 CoreTypes.bundle still has some classic hardware
2018-12-27 The Lucent 901928-01 Keyboard
2018-12-20 The 80586 Pentium
2018-12-11 A dodgy USB key
2018-12-09 StatusCake chatbot
2018-12-03 macOS modifier keys
2018-12-02 Apple T2 webcam security
2018-12-02 Xorg: More than one possible primary device found
2018-11-30 Marc Edwards on 2x Retina
2018-11-29 Apple’s Entrepreneur Camp for women
2018-11-25 Why rip up functional footpaths?
2018-11-24 Ports
2018-11-06 LattePanda
2018-11-04 The new MacBook Air isn’t 2:1 Retina
2018-11-03 Rounded internal SCSI cables
2018-11-01 The new MacBook Airs are devoid of touch bars!
2018-10-30 Apple New York event wish list
2018-10-29 Another chance to buy a DAN A4-SFX case
2018-10-28 The Aston Martin Lagonda
2018-10-23 More plastic, via @Georgiecel
2018-10-22 Why do some smoke detectors use radioactive material?
2018-10-20 MUJI table test
2018-10-16 Obsolete best IT practices
2018-10-10 Zero percent battery
2018-10-08 Lee Myung-bak sentenced for bribery
2018-10-03 When Macworld isn’t
2018-09-05 Someone designed these
2018-08-30 The longest post ever, on the STV-4540 PDU
2018-08-27 Disabling Hyper-Threading for Spectre
2018-08-26 A few days back on a small phone
2018-08-20 My new Kindle
2018-08-16 Oh Android, don’t ever change
2018-07-22 The Pentax K-1 Mark II, and their pancakes
2018-07-18 Filing cabinet chair review
2018-07-07 A Californian rooter van
2018-07-05 My brand new mustimeter
2018-06-21 Which duck tape is best?
2018-06-11 A true 757 replacement
2018-05-29 Cabin of a TWA Lockheed TriStar
2018-05-27 Why ZTE was banned in the US, Australia
2018-05-09 A Tesla and Maserati
2018-04-08 The beige 5.25 inch Zip Insider
2018-04-02 Epson’s classic combo floppy drives
2018-03-30 A home-office hideaway computer desk
2018-03-24 My Akihabara GPD Pocket
2018-03-20 555 pages
2018-02-25 Photo of my desk in 2005
2018-02-24 Home digital assistants
2018-02-23 Music and phones in public
2018-02-09 iUmu, the iMac
2018-02-08 HomePod
2018-02-05 800×600 in a Retina world
2018-01-31 The Hawker Siddeley Trident was fast
2018-01-17 Fuji Xerox
2018-01-08 HP battery recall
2018-01-06 12TB drives are now a thing
2018-01-05 Meltdown and Spectre
2018-01-04 Xen on yesterday’s Intel issue
2018-01-03 Intel’s protected kernel memory leak fun
2018-01-02 Listerine mouth wash taste guide
2017-11-22 FaceID
2017-11-21 The Tupolev Tu-114
2017-10-08 OLEDs suck, for me
2017-09-21 But Steve Jobs wouldn’t have done it!
2017-09-15 Apple’s September 2017 kit
2017-09-08 Electroboom on the Right Hand Rule
2017-07-12 Rick’s 10GbE home network
2017-07-12 Recycling VHS tapes
2017-07-12 Second–hand computers do exist
2017-06-30 A decade of iTelephones
2017-05-13 Old driver decision tree
2017-05-12 Unboxing a 1997 Iomega Jaz Drive
2017-05-12 Oliver’s law of assumed responsibility
2017-04-18 One is not like the others
2017-04-09 Restoring my first computer
2017-04-08 The HP Pavilion Wave
2017-04-07 The new Mac Pro shall be
2017-04-03 Typewriter style keyboard
2017-03-26 ECC in AMD Ryzen
2017-03-14 The Zip Insider
2017-03-07 Versions of EMM386
2017-02-07 3D-printed Penrose Triangle
2017-02-04 On the size of the Commodore 128
2017-01-28 The NOCHANGE BBS car
2017-01-22 The state of the Mac
2017-01-11 Farewell office coffee mug
2017-01-05 The Boeing 727 prototype
2017-01-03 Two-tone beige keyboards in 2017
2016-12-21 Goodbye junk
2016-12-13 Fujitsu exiting laptop business
2016-12-12 The unfortunately-named Eero
2016-12-07 The NSG uClean LD-1420 HMT
2016-10-27 Mac downloads in 2016
2016-09-29 Eight years ago, the Convair 880
2016-09-13 The first Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
2016-09-10 USB aquarium alarm clock pen holder light
2016-09-08 The iPhone 7
2016-09-06 Webmaster Hales on four power supplies
2016-09-05 Four power supplies
2016-08-17 HPE buys SGI
2016-08-09 The ASUS EeeBook X205TA
2016-07-18 Covering laptop cameras
2016-05-07 Choosing a minimalistic Mini-ITX case
2016-03-16 Folding paper seven times
2016-03-09 The Sun Type 6
2015-10-27 Something to do with KVMs
2015-10-26 Being mostly wrong about diesel cars
2015-09-25 Fans brave wet as iPhone 6s goes on sale
2015-09-14 Australian iPhone 6s plans stuck in the 2000s
2015-08-30 Mid-2012 MacBook Air SSD upgrades
2015-07-27 Raw tech specs
2015-07-23 Concession Opal cards
2015-07-17 July 2015 iPods
2015-06-25 Ruben sets up utilities
2015-06-04 My bedroom home office in 2010
2015-05-09 Translucent screens
2015-04-24 I heard you like cranes
2015-03-25 Stop trying to make Apple Watch without 'the' happen
2015-02-04 Difference between Quanta and Qantas
2015-02-03 The IKEA firm RÖLLEKA pillow
2014-12-20 CPU architectures on nixCraft
2014-11-20 Cloud storage arrays
2014-11-11 No more Nokia Sync
2014-11-10 Circular (travelling) headphones
2014-11-06 Time to shake the toner
2014-10-23 Keyloggers
2014-10-18 The 27 inch Retina iMac
2014-10-05 The Typo2 iPhone keyboard
2014-10-02 UTS Building 11 lifts
2014-09-15 The Bic Orange Finepoint most certainly is
2014-09-10 Choosing a keyboard for gaming and typing
2014-09-02 Interpreting ipmitool ser list memory errors
2014-08-18 UTS Building 11 feedback
2014-08-17 The lost opportunity of UTS Building 11
2014-08-03 Two years with a MacBook Air
2014-08-02 SCSI
2014-07-13 Saturday nights with a PSU
2014-05-05 Diesel cars
2014-04-26 The Topre RealForce looks absolutely perfect
2014-04-25 WASD keyboard design fun
2014-04-23 Disruption from Sydney, and keyboards
2014-04-22 The Roland TR-808
2014-04-20 CoolerMaster QuickFire, via @screenbeard
2014-04-15 An Ultimo pilgrimage to MSY
2014-04-10 Ruben talks shoes
2014-03-22 The CODE keyboard
2014-03-18 My second workstation: Unicomp keyboards
2014-03-13 Suspiciously timed massive Archival Discs
2014-03-13 Teana Lanster and Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha
2014-03-12 LTO Ultrium tape drives
2014-02-27 Tiamo’s 32–bit efi and Mavericks 10.9.2
2014-02-13 The @dai1313 on Optiplex nostalgia
2014-02-13 Silent swap meets and IT nostalgia
2014-02-09 Mavericks on my first gen Mac Pro
2014-01-28 The mystery of internal drive enclosure connectors
2014-01-24 Mmm, chewy phone cables
2014-01-20 Kindles, iPods, teal shirts
2014-01-18 The Razer antithesis to the new Mac Pro?
2014-01-11 When you use the same mouse as him
2014-01-05 Mac Pro compromises might not be for me
2014-01-03 The Belkin Thunderbolt Dock
2014-01-02 The LEGO Acropolis
2013-12-27 All this new tech is making us antisocial
2013-12-27 I used to be that guy; the new Mac Pro
2013-12-19 When our frigid whitegood was neither
2013-12-18 Linux RdRand
2013-12-15 FreeBSD and hardware random number generators
2013-12-12 Some ZFS SSD feedback from @zoomosis
2013-12-09 ZFS on FreeBSD supporting TRIM
2013-12-04 Classic Toshiba driver archive
2013-11-21 Fibre optic considered faster than copper
2013-10-21 Ditto
2013-09-28 The IKEA Upptäcka backpack
2013-08-11 What Motorola is to Google
2013-08-06 Photocopiers making randomly alterations
2013-08-05 An evening with printers
2013-06-21 Sony CDP-101
2013-06-21 Cisco Discovery Protocol, eventually
2013-06-15 Cray Mac Pro
2013-06-10 My Mac Pro space station
2013-05-15 I don’t always make lame networking memes
2013-05-12 This isn’t about the Cisco 2800 router series
2013-04-28 Eric Schmidt says we’re just afraid of change
2013-04-27 My latest retro multimedia CD-ROM haul
2013-04-13 Sharp slipping pSee shipments
2013-04-08 Dell, going private
2013-04-07 I think my new iPad mini is Canadian
2013-02-28 So when Samsung shuns NFC, it’s okay
2013-02-07 The 1990s Dell Dimension, via @dai1313
2013-02-07 The Ancient Compaq Presario 5510 spaceship
2013-01-25 Goodbye, Old Glossy
2013-01-22 The wrath of certain Android users
2013-01-18 A cheaper Chevrolet Volt
2013-01-10 I need the lightest possible machine…
2013-01-08 An 11-inch MacBook Air unboxing review thing
2013-01-06 Infinite Solutions: Recharging batteries
2013-01-01 She adores her 64!
2012-10-11 Belkin F5D7010 works on Fedora and FreeBSD
2012-09-30 Linus Torvalds and I had the same computer
2012-09-25 I love you John, but stop reporting on Apple!
2012-08-08 Acer being truthful about Windows tablets
2012-07-03 A Firefox phone? Yes please!
2012-06-19 Comments on Microsoft’s Surface Tablet
2012-06-17 A rambling Mac Pro status report!
2012-06-16 Would you give an ARM for an Intel phone?
2012-06-15 My letter to Westpac about a PayPass debit card
2012-06-04 Retro DEC PDP11 graphics
2012-05-24 Seagate and LaCie, hard drives consolidate again!
2012-05-04 Steins;Seagate
2012-05-03 Optus, Vodafone network sharing, via @madcatjo2point0
2012-04-30 Microsoft Barnes and Noble, wait what?
2012-04-27 No ATMs skimming from DBS profits!
2012-04-18 Friends don’t let friends use crappy keyboards!
2012-04-16 A380 plushies with @johncarneyau and @DrRachie
2012-04-08 Does not having it impede its primary function?
2012-04-05 Windows Phone UI efficiency
2012-03-11 Australian Personal Computer, March 2012
2012-02-02 Lord of the Rings Lego Minifigs
2012-01-23 I had a BlackBerry back in the day, with old photos!
2012-01-20 Let the bed bugs bite
2012-01-20 No Kodak moment pun here
2012-01-15 DBS responds to ATM skimmer fun
2012-01-14 What’s Avocado’s Constant?
2012-01-12 You can just skim this DBS ATM story
2012-01-10 Intel Ultrabooks at CES, via @kevinctofel
2012-01-08 DBS ATM skimmers
2012-01-08 Better late than never: HP not changing their logo
2011-12-28 Prevent volumes auto-mounting on Mac OS X
2011-12-18 BREAKING: I finally cleaned my desk!
2011-12-16 No more Dell netbooks
2011-12-15 A very Janeway Christmas
2011-12-13 My LEGO figs!
2011-12-07 Not surprising to me in the slightest
2011-12-07 Sophos CityRail memory key adventures
2011-11-30 My followup Kindle review followup
2011-11-28 Witnessing NASA #Curiosity #MSL launch, from bed!
2011-11-22 Gruber and Topolsky on Android 4
2011-11-19 My shiny new Kindle 4!
2011-11-17 Super biased reviews of the HP Envy
2011-11-11 10.11.11 – Happy Binary Day #1!
2011-10-29 HP are making PCs again!?
2011-10-27 Not sure if I have one of them Kindles
2011-10-06 iPhone4Steve
2011-10-05 I got fourteen new iPod nano watches today!
2011-10-02 Goodbye Armada M300
2011-09-30 Awesome Starbucks threads
2011-09-29 Amazon Kindle Fire
2011-09-26 My shiny new MikroTik 750GL!
2011-09-25 The IKEA Effect, and Manland
2011-09-03 UTS robot dance troupe
2011-09-01 Another lost iTelephone
2011-09-01 Were we all Punk’d by HP?
2011-08-25 Android #1 mobile platform for malware, but…
2011-08-23 Foresight versus hindsight at Dell
2011-08-20 An ode to HP desktops and PDAs
2011-08-20 Now it violates the GPL? Where does this stop?
2011-08-19 Paying more for stuff and whatnot in Australia
2011-08-17 Late night iMac UTS observations
2011-08-16 Don’t worry, Android is unchanged
2011-08-16 Motoroogle?!
2011-08-13 2007: Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone
2011-08-12 Tech I couldn’t live without: The INSERT key
2011-08-10 Tech I couldn’t live without: door handles
2011-08-09 Operating Systems Solutions #fail
2011-08-03 My first and last entry on Android patents
2011-08-01 I was wrong about Apple and Android!
2011-07-27 Cory Doctorow on the Samsung Galaxy Tab
2011-07-21 This Week in Rubenerd Mobile Computing
2011-06-29 Singapore army iPads?
2011-06-28 Mac Pro not seeing a SCSI-USB Jaz drive
2011-06-25 An AdLib ISA card!
2011-06-24 Failing broadcom-wl on 32 bit Fedora 15?
2011-06-21 A cheap solution for my Nikon D60 battery?
2011-06-20 Steve Ballmer photos, again
2011-06-07 HP bevels, and xcalc, for some reason
2011-05-22 The Sophos Security Gateway?
2011-04-27 @i2yh @rubenerd photocopier reminiscing
2011-04-11 Lithium batteries costing us a bundle!
2011-03-31 Google closed Honeycomb, so what?
2011-03-26 It’s hard being an Aussie Palm fanboy
2011-03-15 My white iPhone 4 and Zune predictions
2011-03-07 An Optus phone data post, with cans!
2011-03-03 iPad 2
2011-02-19 Singapore schwag!
2011-02-09 RIP Ken Olsen 1926-2011
2011-02-05 MacTheKnife is back in bidness!
2011-01-27 My first bike!
2011-01-26 Nostalgia, SuperDisk drives under OS X
2011-01-17 Another sophisticated cooling solution
2010-12-31 Waking up your lazy Fedora 14 ThinkPad X40
2010-12-04 Sinclair 128K
2010-11-12 Government use of iPads?
2010-10-26 Celebrating 30 years of Post-It Notes!
2010-10-22 Windows Phone 7 thoughts
2010-09-25 Why don’t we have Open printer cartridges?!
2010-09-02 Apple’s new September 2010 swag
2010-08-09 What HP needs to do after The Hurd
2010-07-30 The other Steve comments on the iPad
2010-07-28 No more Apple Cinema Displays
2010-07-25 Goodbye Nexus One
2010-07-22 Google Android the latest US weapon?
2010-07-16 Longwinded post on the iPhone 4 saga
2010-07-13 Schweet all day notebook battery power
2010-06-26 One sided reporting on Android and the iPhone
2010-06-08 Thinking about WWDC 2010
2010-05-31 Finally upgraded my ThinkPad X40’s memory!
2010-05-28 Stop the presses, iPad sells in Japan!
2010-05-24 Some Western Digital drives have EARS
2010-05-20 Aussie customs can now search laptops
2010-05-17 Picking up an MSI P43T-C51 for peanuts!
2010-05-16 Commodore’s Amiga fumble in one line
2010-05-09 Android isn’t evil, it’s just not as awesome
2010-05-08 Microsoft’s consumer space woes
2010-04-30 Buying stolen property is Apple’s fault?
2010-04-29 HP buys Palm, Ruben buys coffee to feel better
2010-04-20 The real folks who should buy Palm
2010-04-16 What happened to the vibrating Logitech mouse?
2010-04-12 Robbie Williams sings about… Palm?
2010-04-12 Palm for sale, and some drawn out nostalgia
2010-04-04 Mr GigaOM poses with an iPad
2010-04-04 The iPad and Palmar Hyperhidrosis -ness
2010-04-03 FrankSting and Slashdot Znu on the iPad
2010-04-02 iPad swimming pool iPod bathtubs
2010-03-31 Personal take on CNET’s iPhone 4G wishlist
2010-03-30 Batteries own me
2010-03-20 Windows Phone Mobile thing 7 is… the iPhone?
2010-03-17 Only enabling 16 bit PCMCIA in a FreeBSD kernel?
2010-03-16 Kudos to Dick Smith Electronics in Adelaide
2010-03-16 A combination lock USB key?
2010-03-14 FreeBSD 8.0 boots on a Toshiba Libretto 70CT
2010-03-06 I can honestly say I didn’t expect that result!
2010-03-02 A case study in why features != usability
2010-02-28 A Japanese Dell makes it with a Mac Mini
2010-02-27 Apple’s unfortunate environment backstep
2010-02-18 SuperDrive likes FreeBSD, scared by Fedora
2010-02-10 Aperture 3 signalling end of 32-bit support?
2010-02-09 Researching Nikon micro lenses
2010-01-29 Initial iPad Star Trek sounding reactions
2010-01-27 Worrying out loud about the Apple Tablet
2010-01-24 OS X telling me to Service Battery? Uh oh
2010-01-22 Lovingy detailed Logitech Anywhere MX review
2010-01-17 Can you print a blank page?
2010-01-15 Upgrading a Western Digital MyBook
2009-12-24 Uniqlo made me like clothes shopping!
2009-12-20 Palm nostalgia and marketing folk
2009-12-18 The Tennant 5700 industrial scrubber
2009-12-16 Bummer, I have to contact myself
2009-12-12 Logitech Powered USB Hub schweetness
2009-12-08 SingTel Huawei E180 on Snow Leopard
2009-12-08 DéLonghi Magnifica loud noises fixed!
2009-11-24 Horizontal remote controls anyone?
2009-11-24 Motorola Milestone is tempting
2009-11-20 Dell down, Microsoft makes hardware move
2009-11-16 In the market for a new Logitech mouse
2009-11-10 ThinkPad X40 secondary IDE #fail
2009-11-08 Could the OpenOfficeMouse be chorded?
2009-11-08 Android’s built in excuse?
2009-11-05 Optus bill payment disconnect fail
2009-11-04 Unmount discs without ejecting on Macs
2009-10-20 The birth of a Sidekicking verb?
2009-10-14 Why must external drives behave this way?
2009-10-12 iPhoneUserNews and dull comment trolls
2009-10-09 The Sun Oracle Database Machine
2009-09-27 The new MacBook Pro inverter worked!
2009-09-13 The Cliq beating Apple
2009-09-12 Lousy networks more effective than filters!
2009-09-10 HP LaserJet Error -9672 on Snow Leopard
2009-09-09 BASIC on the iPhone Commodore 64
2009-09-06 Doubts over my Cult of the Mac membership
2009-09-06 Shot inverter in the MacBook Pro
2009-09-05 No backlight on Snow Leopard MacBook Pro
2009-09-03 PC DOS 7 on a ThinkPad X40?
2009-08-26 An arm, a leg and a Drobo
2009-08-22 Final review of ThinkPad X40 awesomeness
2009-08-20 Got me a set of TrackPoint replacement caps
2009-08-18 Initial ThinkPad X40 review, is gut!
2009-08-16 Craptastic versus good quality second hand?
2009-08-15 Does Crucial.com mess up your iPhone 3G?
2009-08-15 Grabbing an IBM Thinkpad X40!
2009-08-09 Coffee shops starting to ban laptops?
2009-08-09 Do not be afraid of tablet computers!
2009-08-05 MacBook Pro trackpad on OpenSolaris
2009-08-03 iTelephone 3.0.1
2009-08-02 iPhoneUserNews is a breath of fresh air
2009-08-01 Optus phone reconnection adventures
2009-07-28 Mac keycaps for Unicomp keyboards
2009-07-26 Another spiffy new MacBook Pro battery
2009-07-23 Taking Paul Thurrott to task on the Zune HD
2009-07-13 More Commodore 16 Unicomp keyboard comparions
2009-07-12 MacBook Pro ExpressCard slot debacle?
2009-07-10 Comparing my Unicomp to my Commodore 16
2009-07-09 I almost got my Unicomp SpaceSaver! Blast!
2009-07-09 I love my new Unicomp buckling spring keyboard!
2009-07-06 No carrier error for SingTel EVDO
2009-07-03 Affordable MacBook Air, Green Hummers
2009-07-02 Kudos to Unicomp
2009-07-01 Just ordered a Unicomp SpaceSaver keyboard
2009-06-26 Landscape iTelephone keyboard everywhere!
2009-06-24 Followup iTelephone Optus unlocking post
2009-06-24 Using my unlocked iTelephone in Singapore
2009-06-23 Unicomp and CVT keyboards
2009-06-21 IBM Model M and Northgate Omnikey keyboards
2009-06-15 Swag from the Singapore PC Expo 2009
2009-06-09 Brief comments about new MacBooks
2009-05-16 Pouring coffee on a laptop wasn’t a good idea
2009-05-14 My Intel Inside Xeon stickers arrived
2009-05-13 An open letter to tech journalists
2009-05-10 PC DOS 2000 boots on an Armada M300!
2009-05-07 SG$700 for a Kindle? Thanks but no thanks
2009-04-28 The optical and magnetic media tag race
2009-04-28 MacBook Pro wishing out loud and whatnot
2009-04-06 Review of AirMe for iPhone and iPod Touch
2009-03-14 Excited about the AF-S NIKKOR DX 35mm f/1.8G
2009-03-08 Moving to Linux from FreeBSD on my Armada M300
2009-03-07 I have some barred locations on my phone line!
2009-03-04 Optus stole my sanity again
2009-02-18 Disabling the PC speaker in FreeBSD
2009-02-12 An iPhone uh oh message
2009-01-27 Apple awarded patent for the iPhone interface
2009-01-14 Optus slapped with a fine for sending spam
2009-01-10 So Apple isn’t giving up trade shows?
2009-01-09 The unnessisary excess of multipe ink cartridges
2008-12-10 An involved Optus customer support debacle
2008-12-06 Is this shipping table normal?
2008-12-05 What the 15 inch MacBook Pro really needs
2008-12-03 Search for a killer desktop replacement combo
2008-12-02 Late Linehaul Frt Delayed and other observations
2008-11-30 Drive catastrophe, good thing I have solid backups
2008-11-29 Ruben’s words of camera phone wisdom
2008-11-29 iPhone 2.2 makes MobileSafari usable again!
2008-11-21 Western Digital Scorpio Black 298GiB goodness
2008-11-15 My review was featured on Elgato.com!
2008-11-08 Possible reason why there’s no MacBook FireWire
2008-11-03 Sophisticated MacBook Pro cooling consulting solution
2008-11-01 Apple, these are my FireWire drives
2008-10-31 Only problem so far with the iPhone: MobileSafari
2008-10-26 MacBook a winner, unless you need FireWire
2008-10-24 Keyboard and coffee, Sent from my iPhone
2008-10-22 The penultimate plus one MacBook FireWire post
2008-10-22 Addressing some MacBook FireWire arguments
2008-10-21 Apple still claims the MacBook includes FireWire
2008-10-21 Obituary for FireWire 1999-2008
2008-10-20 Apple’s tragic FireWire MacBook mistake
2008-10-16 New aluminium block MacBook Pros are nice, mostly!
2008-10-15 New Apple notebook hardware, waffle irons
2008-10-11 Nobody will ever need 16GiB, right?
2008-10-01 My kingdom for a bigger notebook hard drive
2008-09-26 BeOS, the Amiga, now the iPhone?
2008-09-25 Okay okay I got an iPhone!
2008-09-09 On the Mawson Lakes library and common sense
2008-08-31 Do we all like HP’s new logo?
2008-08-31 VIDEO: Replacing the fan in my MacBook Pro
2008-08-30 Eye really like my EyeTV
2008-08-15 OPEN Networks can’t spell Porsche
2008-08-10 Phone line connection musings
2008-05-25 Just ordered a Yubikey
2008-05-10 The iPhone in Australia
2008-05-10 FreeBSD on an Armada M300 rocks
2008-05-06 Data capacity then and now, pretty amazing!
2008-05-04 Showing network drives on an OS X desktop
2008-04-25 Incredible SGD579 laptop deal
2008-04-17 Uh oh
2008-04-09 Inheriting a little Armada M300 subnotebook!
2008-03-31 Intel’s breathtaking photos from Twitter
2008-02-25 Faulty Intel DQ35JO motherboard fun
2008-02-23 On low profile PCI cards and Microsoft tax
2007-10-09 The mysterious little DFE-670TXD
2007-10-01 Nokia e61i screenshot of iPhone site
2007-10-01 Why I probably couldn’t own an iPhone
2007-09-22 My beautiful iBook is working again!
2007-09-06 Mixed reaction to August 2007 iPod crop
2007-09-06 iPod features I’d love to see and love to hate
2007-09-04 Sim Lim Square and the Athlon X2
2007-09-03 COMEX Singapore 2007 expedition
2007-08-08 Damn your new iMacs and iWork Apple!
2007-08-06 Hide-a-pod on Cranky Geeks
2007-06-30 Yet another iPhone post
2007-04-30 Seagate hard disk shot my FireWire port
2007-04-15 Ruben’s sexy new Mighty Mouse!
2007-01-10 iPhone and Zune, no comparison!
2006-12-15 Anyone Used a Creative Xmod?
2006-11-02 Latest Rubenerd Outage
2006-09-09 First Blu-ray Disc Drive Won’t Play Blu-ray Movies
2006-09-04 Commodore 64 T-Shirt
2006-09-02 Orange Juice Cleaning Products?
2006-09-02 Ridata 8GB CompactFlash Card
2006-08-29 Great IT Spares eBay Australia Store
2006-08-28 Integrated Mainboards and AC’97
2006-08-28 Modem Versus WinModem
2006-08-26 Apple Battery Recall
2006-08-20 The SwiMP3 Player
2006-08-12 Michelin’s Airless Tyres
2006-08-05 Mac OS X 0x80020025 blank DVD and CD error
2006-08-02 The Mug Boss from Think Geek
2006-07-30 Sustainable Style, Living and Design
2006-04-03 Biometric Passports in Singapore
2006-03-30 My 486 Laptop Arrived!
2006-03-28 Birthday 486
2006-03-27 I’m 20! And Useless eBay Purchase!
2006-03-23 XBox 360 Launched in Australia
2006-03-21 The Power Mac 4400/200