A busted Athlon-ara motherboard BIOS
Updating the Minipro T48’s firmware
Childhood Melbourne i486 progress
Smart card readers in ThinkPads?
The Intel i486 SX-25 that started it all
Writing EEPROMs on FreeBSD with minipro
The PicoIDE IDE emulator
I want this bag for storing computer cables
Finding my childhood motherboard
The wide world of TCG card folders
Family retrocomputer trash and treasure
I think FreeBSD fixed our scanner?
My “cursed” trusted brand list
Being positive about tech right now
A retail dark pattern worked on me
The Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer
Wait, a repairable ThinkPad!?
The BookArc and Bolt laptop stands
A Macintosh SE FDHD!?
That’s too expensive… for me
The primary purpose of lift lobbies
Old computer monitor stands, and DAISO!
(Thinking about) getting new printers
ZuluSCSI, and an Ultra SCSI Power Mac G3!?
Typing is physical and wonderful
netbsd-users: IBM Model M issues
Modern Commodore 64 cartridge loaders
Pouring one out for Crucial
It’s not included if it’s not listed
Building a new NetBSD machine
Problem exists between printer and chair
What’s the point of a retro case “???”
We have Nvidia snow
Unboxing the new SilverStone FLP02 retro case
Dave Farquhar discusses the Compaq Portable
When a clear film wasn’t
Another iPhone SE 3, and the upgrade treadmill
Eventually getting an Android phone
A 64-bit PCI Adaptec SCSI card
Apple Stores make me anxious
Reunited with a Blue and White Power Mac G3
96% keyboard layouts
I found a Rubik’s Cube
The LED BlinkHAT for the Motorola 6888x
My Macs can’t mount SD cards almost half the time
64-bit PCI versus PCI-X
My filofax was cancelled
Recorded livestreams for retrocomputer stuff?
Feedback regarding AA batteries
Fully-adhesive sticky notes from Muji
Younger people and AA batteries
When to replace hard drives
I have an SGI Indigo2!
I lodged my 2024-25 taxes, and Wi-Fi
BusLogic SCSI drives under DOS
Retrocomputer cheats
A new hand dryer review
Hollow fibre optic cables
PSA: Not all KALLAX boxes fit the same
Andreas suggests a better Techtember
Replacing a sliding door roller
My VL-Bus i486 board lives! I’m incredibly happy
The Gateron Smoothie linear switches
Buying a Thinkpad X230
Using the PicoPSU and PicoRC on an i486
Rainbow D-sub and ribbon cables
Status lights should stop blinding me
NetComm is/was Australian
My Hatsune Miku mug
MoCA: Multimedia over Coax
The Voltage Blaster, PicoPSU, and PicoRC
Finally deshrouding my 3070 graphics card
A strange home lighting site
A message to outdoor tile stakeholders
The A2DVI gives the Apple II DVI and HDMI output
Dan Langille and I have new laptops
A Packard Bell M415 Multimedia bezel!
The end of Intel macOS
digiDirect to buy Mwave
Graphics cards
Mwave going into voluntary administration
The journey to a Dan A3-mATX case
Bric a brac
The IKEA VIDJA floor lamp is extremely bright
What has expanded the utility of computers for you in the last decade?
The Corsair Nautilus 240 RS doesn’t fit in the Dan A4-H2O
An RPi bridge to the retro lab with NetBSD
No, the US doesn’t use Metric
ZuluIDE is a thing
KVMs with DisplayPort and USB over USB-C
The world’s only stable Windows Me machine
Someone really wanted my Commodore Plus/4
Building a new home server?
The Firm’s photocopiers, by John Grisham
ElectroBOOM came to Sydney!
Some of my post-smartphone devices
The Commodore 65 [sic] and MEGA65
Childhood PC rebuild: A UN-1061 MIO card!
Avoiding (smart)phones
My own Ship of Theseus post
I n-now have a Commodore 116!
Micro Four Nerds reviews the OM-3
Korean clothing advertised with a Mac Classic!?
A large dearth of small phones
Feedback about my iPhone SE upgrade post
A letter about silently re-enabling Apple Intelligence
#BOFH Excuse 359
Upgrading from the 15 Pro Max to the 2022 SE
Finding invoices for our first family PC from 1992!
Wiping machines every year
The Speccy
The AMD Radeon RX 9070’s power efficiency
The tale of a cursed pair of glasses
Creating the Om System OM-3 Wikipedia page
Window cleaner for computers
Sticking with Mini-ITX with the cute Dan A4-H2O
Turning off notifications
The elusive desoldering station
The Ricoh GR III is an incredible camera
Goodbye to the iPhone SE
Electrarc240 explains switch mode power supplies
Unobtainium PC building in early 2025
The 1988 Kenwood KX-47C was a great budget deck
A tiny cup handle
Blog question challenge: Technology
The OM SYSTEM OM-3 is the camera of my dreams
Thinking about clock batteries
Using an element14 Wi-Pi [sic] on FreeBSD
The Hyper7-R4 is ridiculous and I want it
SEIKO Hatsune Miku Senbonzakura Watch
Building an Atari 1040STᴱ chip manifest
Right to repair farm equipment
Year of the Linux desktop
My Atari 1040STᴱ!
The Kinesis mWave Keyboard
OM-1 Mark II follow-up, and getting years wrong
I wish partner graphics cards got the memo
Playing digital audio files on a Hi-Fi?
M43, and craving the OM System OM-1 Mark II
The Tennant S960 Battery Ride-on Sweeper
Stuff doesn’t work
The OpenWrt One, and NameTLAs
Andreas, Tim, Michał, and I don’t need new machines
Remember international calls?
The limits of advice, and having your own thoughts
Part four: Installing an SSD in our PlayStation 3 Slim
My Wedgewood Egypt mug
Part three: Replacing our PS3 with a PS3 Slim
Tiny KVMs for one-off colocation
Part two: Our (recent) history with the PlayStation 3
Cay Horstmann configures HiDPI on Linux
Remembering our hi-fi and TV inputs
Neverending beeps in the night
Consoles, and the PlayStation 3
What to consider before consuming
The Tanmatsu portable RISC-V terminal
Refrigeration: my greatest invention of modern times
Gary Castle was tempted by clipboard parts
Zen and the art of PCIe ×1 placement
Bidding farewell to Mini-ITX and SFF, maybe
MNT Reform Next only let down by its display
Ten things in tech I found joy in during 2024
Farewell to my first coffee grinder
Building a replacement 386/486 CMOS battery
An MV4-V4S471/472P 486 motherboard from 1995
Acceptable public use cases for smartphone speakers
Stymied by legacy measurements in the morning
USB 3.0 header mods of perhaps dubious repute
SSD cost versus spinning rust
RFC: NetBSD network cards
My dream multi-function home office machine
The Atari ST is my favourite 16-bit machine
Wouter Groeneveld on retrotech
Espresso mouse
The Logitech M240 Silent Bluetooth Mouse
AMD shelving high-end GPU plans
GCC un-depracating Itanium
My short-lived 10-inch rack plans
Single dose, low retention coffee grinders
Building a small, dense homelab cluster
Soap holder language
My AeroPress has a new lease of life
Web tech needs diversity
The scale difference between prod and homelabs
The uConsole, as recommended by you!
The gorgeous SDS 940 from 1966
An OQO or Hand386 successor for commuting?
Why do you specifically like those retrocomputers?
Brewed coffee over espresso
Hardware features I wish could come back
Still on an M1 MacBook Air
SATA as a legacy connector
Picking up a Power Mac G4 QuickSilver
Farewell to AnandTech
Researching home lab racks
Some fun little retro Mini Brands
Being second with physical media
Our first home server, and rekindling that joy
2× HiDPI > 1× > 1.5×
The Dell OEM Sound Blaster Live! CT4780
AMD’s new 65 watt CPUs are a huge achievement
SD to IDE adaptors, and revisiting retrocomputer storage
86Box 4.2 supports the wonderful ESS AudioDrive!
Repairing a Samsung DVD-Master from 2001
The 1983 JVC A-K100 stereo amplifier
A logic gate experiment lab on Tindie
The new SilverStone CS382 homelab case
Researching cameras in 2024
Singaporean hospital cleaning robot catches fire
Keeping Hi-Fi gear cool
It’s rare, so I have to get it?
An update on painting my NR200P case beige
Finding Pentium 3 parts by the side of the road!
Attributes for my ideal computer cases
The Apple II shows how amazing the C64 was
The CP/M Card and Gold Card for the Apple II
LED bulbs
The IBM 5160 XT
Stymied by a 1990s thermostat
The SPAOE Z80 Apple II card
My 8, 32, and 64-bit desk!
Dave Farquhar on CD-ROMs in early PCs
My Tom n Toms coffee mug
When Tramiel left Commodore for Atari
My fun experience at a Scorptec store (no, really)!
Goodbye, mailbox
Priming a CoolerMaster NR200P case for painting
My own silly intercom glitch in the Matrix
Whatever happened to Akai?
Peerless Assassin 120 versus 120 SE cooler
Buying a matte screen protector
What plastics really recycle: myths
A National RC-6060 clock radio from 1985
Deshrouding my ZOTAC RTX 3070 Twin Edge?
Z80 cards for the Apple //e
Et tu, Samsung USB key?
One of these NICs is not like the others
Emil on old computers for new writing
Demonstration of the restored WITCH computer
Having a dedicated computer workbench again
Finally got my ultimate retro KVM setup working!
I pre-ordered the Tangara music player
How do you connect retrocomputers to the web?
Questions about modding my Blueberry iMac DV
An unintentional LED night light
The tiny NanoPi R2S
Alternative GoTek drive mounting options
Quick review of the Pi1541 from Shareware Plus
The Drop CSTM80 barebones board
Buying a literal scrap of Commodore PC history
My Moka coffee cup, and some Sydney architecture
Discovering TT scale trainsets
SD cards became the ubiquitous superfloppy
Pieces of 8: BMCs
Introducing my new 8-bit Software Fun series
Diederick discusses tape storage and cartridges
A 2024 Yellow Pages monitor stand
Modern Commodore 64 motherboards
E-waste still not taken seriously in Australia
Getting an ATI 9600 XT AGP card
Apple should release a bike or scooter, not a car
Researching buying my first AGP GPU
Ordering my first nylon 3D printed part
Reflashing an SiI 3114 RAID into a SATA controller
Third time’s the charm with XTIDE
Shiori Novella discusses vlogging gear
Losing 5.25-inch bays
Almost getting an Acorn Electron
Thinking about the Framework laptop
Using an old computer for new writing
Train DRM
I wanted an HBA for FreeBSD, not a RAID JBOD
Pigeonholing your unrivalled tech buyers
In Sydney? Want a free Compaq retrocomputer?
Retrocomputer FPGAs, featuring Wouter of Brain Baking
Tech I couldn’t live without: washing machines
Shinri and Reine found me some PS/2 cables!
That cool indie project? It’s no more!
Always buy old KVMs with cables
Figuring out input selection on a Dell 4K panel
A bit of 486 CPU nostalgia and history
AMD Microblaze V, and CPU diversity
Jay on AMD AM5 system stability
Giving up on a forever crossing
I miss 4:3 and 16:10
iLeakage
High-airflow case for my FreeBSD workstation
The Micro 8088, and my dream pedestel machine
Not one, but two beigetastic Presario towers!
The Tangara open portable music player
What counts as authentic retrocomputing
In defence of power points with switches
The mysterious Aywun 307 case
Daisy-chaining Apple IIe disk drives
Remembering the Apple //e Platinum, and finally finding one!
Disk flux images are fascinating
Building a new Apple II?
How BlackBerry failed to respond to the iPhone
Commodore, the Apple II, and how things could have been different
Variety in PCs, after years of the Mac
My “Aldi” Commodore 64 case
Fake 486 cache chips
“Bang for the buck” when picking a graphics card
The Sun SPARCStation 5’s 13W3 connector
What colour is the Commodore 64?
Hardware Unboxed’s podcast, and benchmark misconceptions
Another Am386 30-pin SIMM replacement
@Omegatron on the POPCAKE
A basic ASRock board for my FreeBSD tower
Configuring Adaptec SCSI CD-ROMs on DOS
Using what you have is better than not!
YAXI Ear Pads for the Porta Pro
Finding myself in a video rendering studio
Steam cleaning chewing gum
Electronic bookends
E-readers, and feedback from Daniel O’Connell
My daily carry in 2023
The ASUS Media Bus
Adrian Black takes apart a 1980s scope
The longest word you can type on the first row
Ohms being expressed with R instead of Ω
The weirdest HP Pavilion I’ve ever picked up
ATX bracket for the Cooler Master NR200P
My Commodore 16 keyboard is fixed!
Between ISA and PCI, PCs had EISA and VLB
Troubleshooting my Am386SX’s RAM issues
BNC connectors cut in half
An even tinier NAS
Merlin Mann and my Commodore 16 taught me a small step is a catalyst
The story of a flawed office tap
A strange Commodore 16 reset line
The Foenix F256k retrocomputer
RFC: expansion options for the Commodore 128
When does retrocomputing begin?
Typing on my new Gateron North Pole 2.0 keyboard
Energy retailer of last resort?
My Pentium 1’s phantom hard disk
Six months into my smartphone awareness exercise
Connecting a CD-ROM to a Sound Blaster 32 IDE header in DOS
A near-mint 1999 IBM Aptiva desktop
Innovation in civil engineering
My Am386 now has a Tseng ET4000AX card!
Fixing DDR4-1867 on a Supermicro server
FreeBSD brightness controls on Panasonic laptops
Getting frustrated at inanimate IT objects
Hales on PCIe over USB (or lack thereof)
Using M2 Wi-Fi card slots for other things
Remembering how the Nintendo Wii was cracked
A cool Adaptec AHA-1542CP ISA SCSI card
A new old-stock floppy drive
The enforceability of boilerplate
Buying parts online and iRL
An enigma of a VGA cable
Retrocomputing info is easy to find, until it isn’t
Researching if Commodore’s PCs were profitable
Pronouncing “composite” video
USB 1.1 Alien Tape Megasaur Spurtles
A disk-on-module with my Am386
An apartment tower of lithium
A 30-pin RAM upgrade for my Am386
Aftermarket Commodore power supplies
An Intel i387SL coprocessor for my AMD Am386SX
The ESS AudioDrive ES1868F for sound and IDE
Equinix retiring copper
My 386SX’s working Acer MIO-400 IO card
I fixed my 1991 386SX-16/20CN motherboard!
My new ISA/PCI PC diagnostic card
Why are they called du Pont connectors?
Libraries were full of tech inflexion points
Parts reviewers, clickbait, and absolute price
FreeBSD and NetBSD laptop feedback: the Framework
Retrocomputing is as much optimism as an escape
Researching a new FreeBSD or NetBSD laptop
Filter jugs should be rectangular
A 1990 encyclopædia on phones and packet switching
Breaking a Commodore 16 key, and retrocomputer storage
AliExpress anime and electronics comments
Daniel Aleksandersen on split keyboard accessibility
Restoring my 1983 “Aldi” Commodore VC-20
GamersNexus on support training and scripts
The economic and social effect of sealed devices
Time magazine discusses successful tech failures
A legacy PC drive update: little works!
Feedback: preventing streaks when retrobrighting
W-whoops, buying a Commodore VC-20
Comparing VIC-20 and C64 cart sizes
Adrian Black explains his TRS-80 diagnostic
Setting tech expectations
Greg’s experience with a smart phone
Obsolete tech: the Battery Daddy
Printers and wasted tech potential
Things I’d love to build this year
Thoughts on an entirely new Commodore 64
I fixed my beautiful little Commodore Plus/4!
The ThinkPhone
The great Commodore/Atari engineer swap
Using PCI slots for SSD brackets
What happened to data sims for tablets?
Time spent looking at my phone
Changelog for omake.opml
My final Commodore 128 Retr0bright post
Fascinating new pencil soldering irons
Another smart camera leaking information
That elusive Commodore 128 80-column mode
Flickering caused by a hot MOS 8565R2
High idle power on AMD’s RDNA3 cards
A late review of the M1 MacBook Air
Cleaning and retr0brighting a Commodore 64C
The Fractal Ridge Mini-ITX Case
I… bought a Commodore 64C
The patch in my Commdoore 1541 was official!
The “joy” of retro IT web searches
STH’s Supermicro X13SAE-F board review
Canon Canoscan LiDE220 review
Thinking about AMD’s 7000 series CPUs
Raspberry Pis in racks or PCI slots
Cartron asks what FreeBSD machines I use
Peter Millard compares and contrasts sanders
My favourite USB key ever: The Toshiba PA5003A
Backing the VisionFive 2 RISC-V dev board
The iPhone 14
Discovering 850 watt SFX power supplies exist
Weird Al had 100 gigs of RAM
AMD Ryzen 7000
The NCR-80 vintage mechanical keyboard kit
Features every microwave should have
A year of using a FreeBSD laptop without a GUI
An obstinate port-forwarding router
GPU prices a bit closer to normalcy
Q&A about my NW-A55 Walkman
Number pads
Jeff Geerling’s all-flash NAS
Uses for tangled earbud cables
Hamaji Neo reviews Gateron Yellow switches
The Internet’s short memory for retrocomputing
My new Sony NW-A55 Walkman! Also a review
The tech nostalgia bathtub curve
Adventures with mould and dehumidifiers
Cathode Ray Dude on retro hardware collecting
Rebecca, Michael recommend the Gateron Black Ink V2 keyswitches
Quest for a thocky split keyboard like my Topre
My own drive reliability stats
Portable digital audio players still exist
The CERBERUS 2080
The wondrous LG A9 CordZero vacuum cleaner
The first iPhone, and portable music in 2022
Goodies from @GamersNexus arrived!
The hot (running) AMD Radeon 6950 XT
Fun with AIOs: The Arctic Liquid Freezer II 280
My Hahndorf Inn Hotel mug
A market failure with sunk costs
A list of my first computers
Buy LG fridges, not Westinghouse
Nvidia’s RTX 3090 Ti
The most satisfying connectors
Birthday Ryzen Minecraft shaders!
Down to my last Aeropress filter
My Apothecary Coffee mug
Pouring one out for David Boggs
Challenges with mini-ITX builds in 2022
The RTX 3070, and chasing the shiny
Feedback on 4K KVMs
Learning about fan controllers
The new iPhone SE is still good
Are DisplayPort or HDMI KVMs any good?
Cancelling my Presario Sleeper PC project
No bad products, only bad prices?
Personal technology insight and cynicism
The iPhone 8 (and SE) are still better iPhones
Review: @PCCaseGear in Australia is awesome
JayzTwoCents on guilt about hobbies
Graphics card feedback
Phantom phone vibrations
Buying a new graphics card
A numbered list of encountered tech
A 12 TB SATA Ultrastar hard drive saves the day
Raspberry Pi OS is now 64-bit
My retrocomputer projects, Q1 2022
The iPad Mini 6’s weird aspect ratio
The PinePhone keyboard case
Doc Searls versus printers
Always check for the wrong item too
Battery-powered trains
Finding a cute 386 or 486 desktop
Wouter Groeneveld digresses
Our January 2022 apartment cleanout
Microfibre cloths
My “new” IBM WorkPad 20X Palm PDA!
A home NAS of the future
Farewell to my Kindle Paperwhite
Steps towards more recycling in Singapore
Beige-o-Vision introducing the PiDP-11
Learning of BlueSCSI
The Ricoh GR IIIx
The Maja 2 split keyboard
End of year thoughts on consolidating stuff
Formatting SD cards in the Nintendo Switch
If nobody wants to use smartphones, what then?
The Nintendo Switch Lite is my new 2DS
The Raspberry Pi 400 as a couch game machine
The Raspberry Pi A+, and Pi-Hole
The iPad mini 6
Spycrowsoft on reusing stuff
Dell 27-inch 4K panels as Retina displays
The M1X MacBook Pros
The simplex ambidextrous?
Privacy and trust as a luxury good
One step closer to my new FreeBSD tower
Dreaming of soap and door nomenclature
Greyscale screens for anxiety
My first shipped DOA drive
Repairability of laptops
A 1 TB DIMM, with a clock speed of 2!
Apps are a poor replacement for hardware
Feedback on Braun shaver cables
The state of second-hand GPUs in 2021
What Apple mouses and Braun shavers share
Researching GPU options for my sleeper PC
Docks charging more than just kettles
The Cloud Media Remote for the PS4
The LG Gram: does it have PC Screen Syndrome?
Missing things in our home
My sleeper PC... curse!
Micah R Ledbetter’s ErgoDox feedback
Expanding our FreeBSD home file server
Fourier transforming X-ray diffraction patterns before computers
Motherboard standoffs for weird case sizes
Comparing PC all-in-ones to the iMac
Finally buying a Compaq spaceship
Feedback about the Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard
The Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard 2019
Acer’s antimicrobial laptop
Feedback on repurposed eBay packaging
Dodgy listings using repurposed packaging
The home storage crisis, via Doc Searls
Revisiting webcam covers
Searching for a CD storage system
A Commodore 128 shipping update
Some of these kitchen gadgets we do need
Laptop, tablet, smartphone, or phone?
FreeBSD 13 on the Panasonic Let’s Note CF-RZ6
LCD Android phones to sync with FreeBSD
More cores are good
The M1 Mac: “seems fine”
My new (replacement!) Palm IIIx
Linus Tech Tips: Nothing EVER works!
Palm LifeDrive in a Windows 2000 QEMU VM
My Palm LiveDrive!
Whimsy and the new coloured iMacs
Palm PDA nostalgia on its way!
Feedback about a slow CF card
Newer CF card slower in my Pentium tower
Repairing, not replacing old parts
Apologising to wpa_supplicant and FreeBSD Wi-Fi
Rediscovering one of our family computers
A mini, portable display for Commodore gear?
Now obsolete MacBooks still have better screens
Best attribute for 8-bit enthusiasts: patience
Our bathroom hippo
The VIA VT82C586B PCI, PC97 controller
A Commodore 128 and TED monitor stand
My Commodore 1571 drive arrived!
Why did initials on MOS chips disappear?
Reliability of cassette tapes and disks
Moving on from Apple
Troubleshooting my Commodore 128’s 80-column mode, part one
Missing MacBook Pro features returning
Headphones as a social signal
Retr0brighting my Commodore 128 keyboard
Slanty road barrier things
Troubleshooting a Commodore 1541 disk drive
Necessity versus rarity in online auctions
Gadget-like computers, or computer-like gadgets?
Stores for Commodore 128 components
Comprehensive Breville BKE395 kettle review
Fixing my unbootable Commodore 128
Almost wrote about my Commodore 128
Douglas Brebner on integration and complexity
A point to consider before retr0brigting
That complexity inflection point
Not just the price limiting EV adoption
Today’s errors
Difference between 19200 and 19200R ECC RAM
Dynabook screens
Graphics cards getting even pricier
Merging power buttons on appliances
2.5 and 5GbE adaptors
The world’s chunkiest card reader
Toodles and Michael Tsai on OLED iPhones
Responses to my new homelab server
Building a new homelab server
Security flaws in smart doorbells
737 Max issues were people
Here are some related, incompatible items
@Spycrowsoft on OLED sensitivity
Scatterbrain Apple M1 chip thoughts
Hales warns us of greymarket electronics
Equinix data centre advice
Antranig Vartanian on RSS, HiDPI, Apple Silicon
Becky Hansmeyer, Dan Benjamin on the iPhone 12
Wait, that heatsync isn’t really copper?
OLED-sensitive people left out from the iPhone 12
My new-ish 16-inch MacBook Pro
Feeling guilt upon buying something
AC3 is not AAC
Ethernet papercuts
We need physical audio kill switches
A KONE lift diagnostic test tool and decoder
System76 laptop displays
FOSS laptops and subpar displays
Uncommon Advansys Iomega Jaz Jet SCSI-II cards
New computers don’t feel faster
Phones before the iPhone
Tech hardware fails, as written in 2012
Testing a new machine
The 3.5 mm headphone jack
The Kos Porta Pro X headphones
Naming five Hi-Fi brands
My new/old Technics SL-J300R turntable
Andranig Vartanian on Solaris, with more nostalgia
Follow-up to AT power supplies
The Athena AT40 400W AT power supply
Blog retrospective: 720K floppies
Goodbye Home-Fix, and Singapore’s DIY scene
More FreeBSD HPE Microserver homelab answers
ARM Macs (but RISC-V would be cooler)
The speed of technology
Booting FreeBSD off the HPE MicroServer Gen8 ODD SATA port
My humble homelab, with awful ASCII diagrams
The 2020 iPhone SE
What’s missing from NAS reviews
Other SMR considerations
Hidden shingled-drive follow-up
The Shingled magnetic recording NAS debacle
The Onkyo C-707
FreeBSD 12.1 on a new (to me) ThinkPad T550
Figuring out Hi-Fi component dimensions
Kenwood DEM-9991D circuit diagram
HO-scale R-761
Arena Unix II swim cap
Coronavirus info from data centres
Rediscovering LaserDiscs
Music Monday: IBM PS/2 It!
Intel’s discrete GPUs at CES
A technical admission
Technical accuracy, and the whole product concept
Curious case of the 32 GiB key with only 64 MiB
Solution to blocking home recording
The Hyperion luggable from 1983
Trying the new 16-inch MacBook Pro
Replacing the phone
16-inch MacBook Pro
Android biometrics in October 2019
Fun with online ECC memory shopping
Current ThinkPads with HiDPI
Consolidating all the things, also watches
iPhone typing accuracy declines
Choosing a new pocket camera
The Sony StorStation Ditto tape drive
iTelephone 2019 wish list
Rambling on biology and tech
iOS always forgets what audio I was playing
ThinkPad feedback from @sjdorst
The ThinkPad X40, an all-time favourite
Choosing a NAS
10x Engineers: The brilliant jerks
Covering laptop cameras, revistied
ThinkPads and MacBooks
Dan Benjamin on computers as tools
Ken Akamatsu on the Raspberry Pi 4 model B
Why do most PC laptops have awful screens?
HPE buying Cray
KVM trolley suggestions for data centre operators
Jaycar external RAID box with FreeBSD and ZFS
The Mid-range utility Mac
Roman numeral IIII on clocks
A purpose-built FreeBSD home bhyve box
Percussive maintenance
Relief for the 2019 Mac Pro
Hard drive capacities: a 2008 retrospective
2019 MacBook Pros
Goodbye tanakasuka, my last RAIDZ-1 ZFS pool
Kao laundry powder scoop analysis
SCSI to CompactFlash for vintage PCs
Commodore SFD-1001, and the Teac FD-505
The Cayenne Convection Oven
Fully-recyclable Adidas shoes
Buying philosophy for computer hardware
Using a 4K LG UltraFine display with FreeBSD?
Tethering is still voodoo
No FreeBSD on the Libretto any more
Storage versus RAM configurability
My colleague’s MT3 profile board
Technical reasons may often be insufficient
1993 Computer Chronicles on Spectre
Opening a Kensington Orbit Trackball
Ergolux corner standing desk
Simpson Strong Tie Set Xp Msds
Apple’s rumoured 16-inch MacBook Pro
Goodbye, AT&T data centres
A list of lightweight laptops from 2018
Ranking of laptop keyboards
State of Apple in 2018
Predictable issues with video doorbells
The European Space Agency store
Vortex Race 3 keyboard
Why OLED phone screens suck for some of us
CoreTypes.bundle still has some classic hardware
The Lucent 901928-01 Keyboard
The 80586 Pentium
A dodgy USB key
StatusCake chatbot
macOS modifier keys
Apple T2 webcam security
Xorg: More than one possible primary device found
Marc Edwards on 2x Retina
Apple’s Entrepreneur Camp for women
Why rip up functional footpaths?
Ports
LattePanda
The new MacBook Air isn’t 2:1 Retina
Rounded internal SCSI cables
The new MacBook Airs are devoid of touch bars!
Apple New York event wish list
Another chance to buy a DAN A4-SFX case
The Aston Martin Lagonda
More plastic, via @Georgiecel
Why do some smoke detectors use radioactive material?
MUJI table test
Obsolete best IT practices
Zero percent battery
Lee Myung-bak sentenced for bribery
When Macworld isn’t
Someone designed these
The longest post ever, on the STV-4540 PDU
Disabling Hyper-Threading for Spectre
A few days back on a small phone
My new Kindle
Oh Android, don’t ever change
The Pentax K-1 Mark II, and their pancakes
Filing cabinet chair review
A Californian rooter van
My brand new mustimeter
Which duck tape is best?
A true 757 replacement
Cabin of a TWA Lockheed TriStar
Why ZTE was banned in the US, Australia
A Tesla and Maserati
The beige 5.25 inch Zip Insider
Epson’s classic combo floppy drives
A home-office hideaway computer desk
My Akihabara GPD Pocket
555 pages
Photo of my desk in 2005
Home digital assistants
Music and phones in public
iUmu, the iMac
HomePod
800×600 in a Retina world
The Hawker Siddeley Trident was fast
Fuji Xerox
HP battery recall
12TB drives are now a thing
Meltdown and Spectre
Xen on yesterday’s Intel issue
Intel’s protected kernel memory leak fun
Listerine mouth wash taste guide
FaceID
The Tupolev Tu-114
OLEDs suck, for me
But Steve Jobs wouldn’t have done it!
Apple’s September 2017 kit
Electroboom on the Right Hand Rule
Rick’s 10GbE home network
Recycling VHS tapes
Second–hand computers do exist
A decade of iTelephones
Old driver decision tree
Unboxing a 1997 Iomega Jaz Drive
Oliver’s law of assumed responsibility
One is not like the others
Restoring my first computer
The HP Pavilion Wave
The new Mac Pro shall be
Typewriter style keyboard
ECC in AMD Ryzen
The Zip Insider
Versions of EMM386
3D-printed Penrose Triangle
On the size of the Commodore 128
The NOCHANGE BBS car
The state of the Mac
Farewell office coffee mug
The Boeing 727 prototype
Two-tone beige keyboards in 2017
Goodbye junk
Fujitsu exiting laptop business
The unfortunately-named Eero
The NSG uClean LD-1420 HMT
Mac downloads in 2016
Eight years ago, the Convair 880
The first Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
USB aquarium alarm clock pen holder light
The iPhone 7
Webmaster Hales on four power supplies
Four power supplies
HPE buys SGI
The ASUS EeeBook X205TA
Covering laptop cameras
Choosing a minimalistic Mini-ITX case
Folding paper seven times
The Sun Type 6
Something to do with KVMs
Being mostly wrong about diesel cars
Fans brave wet as iPhone 6s goes on sale
Australian iPhone 6s plans stuck in the 2000s
Mid-2012 MacBook Air SSD upgrades
Raw tech specs
Concession Opal cards
July 2015 iPods
Ruben sets up utilities
My bedroom home office in 2010
Translucent screens
I heard you like cranes
Stop trying to make Apple Watch without 'the' happen
Difference between Quanta and Qantas
The IKEA firm RÖLLEKA pillow
CPU architectures on nixCraft
Cloud storage arrays
No more Nokia Sync
Circular (travelling) headphones
Time to shake the toner
Keyloggers
The 27 inch Retina iMac
The Typo2 iPhone keyboard
UTS Building 11 lifts
The Bic Orange Finepoint most certainly is
Choosing a keyboard for gaming and typing
Interpreting ipmitool ser list memory errors
UTS Building 11 feedback
The lost opportunity of UTS Building 11
Two years with a MacBook Air
SCSI
Saturday nights with a PSU
Diesel cars
The Topre RealForce looks absolutely perfect
WASD keyboard design fun
Disruption from Sydney, and keyboards
The Roland TR-808
CoolerMaster QuickFire, via @screenbeard
An Ultimo pilgrimage to MSY
Ruben talks shoes
The CODE keyboard
My second workstation: Unicomp keyboards
Suspiciously timed massive Archival Discs
Teana Lanster and Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha
LTO Ultrium tape drives
Tiamo’s 32–bit efi and Mavericks 10.9.2
The @dai1313 on Optiplex nostalgia
Silent swap meets and IT nostalgia
Mavericks on my first gen Mac Pro
The mystery of internal drive enclosure connectors
Mmm, chewy phone cables
Kindles, iPods, teal shirts
The Razer antithesis to the new Mac Pro?
When you use the same mouse as him
Mac Pro compromises might not be for me
The Belkin Thunderbolt Dock
The LEGO Acropolis
All this new tech is making us antisocial
I used to be that guy; the new Mac Pro
When our frigid whitegood was neither
Linux RdRand
FreeBSD and hardware random number generators
Some ZFS SSD feedback from @zoomosis
ZFS on FreeBSD supporting TRIM
Classic Toshiba driver archive
Fibre optic considered faster than copper
Ditto
The IKEA Upptäcka backpack
What Motorola is to Google
Photocopiers making randomly alterations
An evening with printers
Sony CDP-101
Cisco Discovery Protocol, eventually
Cray Mac Pro
My Mac Pro space station
I don’t always make lame networking memes
This isn’t about the Cisco 2800 router series
Eric Schmidt says we’re just afraid of change
My latest retro multimedia CD-ROM haul
Sharp slipping pSee shipments
Dell, going private
I think my new iPad mini is Canadian
So when Samsung shuns NFC, it’s okay
The 1990s Dell Dimension, via @dai1313
The Ancient Compaq Presario 5510 spaceship
Goodbye, Old Glossy
The wrath of certain Android users
A cheaper Chevrolet Volt
I need the lightest possible machine…
An 11-inch MacBook Air unboxing review thing
Infinite Solutions: Recharging batteries
She adores her 64!
Belkin F5D7010 works on Fedora and FreeBSD
Linus Torvalds and I had the same computer
I love you John, but stop reporting on Apple!
Acer being truthful about Windows tablets
A Firefox phone? Yes please!
Comments on Microsoft’s Surface Tablet
A rambling Mac Pro status report!
Would you give an ARM for an Intel phone?
My letter to Westpac about a PayPass debit card
Retro DEC PDP11 graphics
Seagate and LaCie, hard drives consolidate again!
Steins;Seagate
Optus, Vodafone network sharing, via @madcatjo2point0
Microsoft Barnes and Noble, wait what?
No ATMs skimming from DBS profits!
Friends don’t let friends use crappy keyboards!
A380 plushies with @johncarneyau and @DrRachie
Does not having it impede its primary function?
Windows Phone UI efficiency
Australian Personal Computer, March 2012
Lord of the Rings Lego Minifigs
I had a BlackBerry back in the day, with old photos!
Let the bed bugs bite
No Kodak moment pun here
DBS responds to ATM skimmer fun
What’s Avocado’s Constant?
You can just skim this DBS ATM story
Intel Ultrabooks at CES, via @kevinctofel
DBS ATM skimmers
Better late than never: HP not changing their logo
Prevent volumes auto-mounting on Mac OS X
BREAKING: I finally cleaned my desk!
No more Dell netbooks
A very Janeway Christmas
My LEGO figs!
Not surprising to me in the slightest
Sophos CityRail memory key adventures
My followup Kindle review followup
Witnessing NASA #Curiosity #MSL launch, from bed!
Gruber and Topolsky on Android 4
My shiny new Kindle 4!
Super biased reviews of the HP Envy
10.11.11 – Happy Binary Day #1!
HP are making PCs again!?
Not sure if I have one of them Kindles
iPhone4Steve
I got fourteen new iPod nano watches today!
Goodbye Armada M300
Awesome Starbucks threads
Amazon Kindle Fire
My shiny new MikroTik 750GL!
The IKEA Effect, and Manland
UTS robot dance troupe
Another lost iTelephone
Were we all Punk’d by HP?
Android #1 mobile platform for malware, but…
Foresight versus hindsight at Dell
An ode to HP desktops and PDAs
Now it violates the GPL? Where does this stop?
Paying more for stuff and whatnot in Australia
Late night iMac UTS observations
Don’t worry, Android is unchanged
Motoroogle?!
2007: Apple should pull the plug on the iPhone
Tech I couldn’t live without: The INSERT key
Tech I couldn’t live without: door handles
Operating Systems Solutions #fail
My first and last entry on Android patents
I was wrong about Apple and Android!
Cory Doctorow on the Samsung Galaxy Tab
This Week in Rubenerd Mobile Computing
Singapore army iPads?
Mac Pro not seeing a SCSI-USB Jaz drive
An AdLib ISA card!
Failing broadcom-wl on 32 bit Fedora 15?
A cheap solution for my Nikon D60 battery?
Steve Ballmer photos, again
HP bevels, and xcalc, for some reason
The Sophos Security Gateway?
@i2yh @rubenerd photocopier reminiscing
Lithium batteries costing us a bundle!
Google closed Honeycomb, so what?
It’s hard being an Aussie Palm fanboy
My white iPhone 4 and Zune predictions
An Optus phone data post, with cans!
iPad 2
Singapore schwag!
RIP Ken Olsen 1926-2011
MacTheKnife is back in bidness!
My first bike!
Nostalgia, SuperDisk drives under OS X
Another sophisticated cooling solution
Waking up your lazy Fedora 14 ThinkPad X40
Government use of iPads?
Celebrating 30 years of Post-It Notes!
Windows Phone 7 thoughts
Why don’t we have Open printer cartridges?!
Apple’s new September 2010 swag
What HP needs to do after The Hurd
The other Steve comments on the iPad
No more Apple Cinema Displays
Goodbye Nexus One
Google Android the latest US weapon?
Longwinded post on the iPhone 4 saga
Schweet all day notebook battery power
One sided reporting on Android and the iPhone
Thinking about WWDC 2010
Finally upgraded my ThinkPad X40’s memory!
Stop the presses, iPad sells in Japan!
Some Western Digital drives have EARS
Aussie customs can now search laptops
Picking up an MSI P43T-C51 for peanuts!
Commodore’s Amiga fumble in one line
Android isn’t evil, it’s just not as awesome
Microsoft’s consumer space woes
Buying stolen property is Apple’s fault?
HP buys Palm, Ruben buys coffee to feel better
The real folks who should buy Palm
What happened to the vibrating Logitech mouse?
Robbie Williams sings about… Palm?
Palm for sale, and some drawn out nostalgia
Mr GigaOM poses with an iPad
The iPad and Palmar Hyperhidrosis -ness
FrankSting and Slashdot Znu on the iPad
iPad swimming pool iPod bathtubs
Personal take on CNET’s iPhone 4G wishlist
Batteries own me
Windows Phone Mobile thing 7 is… the iPhone?
Only enabling 16 bit PCMCIA in a FreeBSD kernel?
Kudos to Dick Smith Electronics in Adelaide
A combination lock USB key?
FreeBSD 8.0 boots on a Toshiba Libretto 70CT
I can honestly say I didn’t expect that result!
A case study in why features != usability
A Japanese Dell makes it with a Mac Mini
Apple’s unfortunate environment backstep
SuperDrive likes FreeBSD, scared by Fedora
Aperture 3 signalling end of 32-bit support?
Researching Nikon micro lenses
Initial iPad Star Trek sounding reactions
Worrying out loud about the Apple Tablet
OS X telling me to Service Battery? Uh oh
Lovingy detailed Logitech Anywhere MX review
Can you print a blank page?
Upgrading a Western Digital MyBook
Uniqlo made me like clothes shopping!
Palm nostalgia and marketing folk
The Tennant 5700 industrial scrubber
Bummer, I have to contact myself
Logitech Powered USB Hub schweetness
SingTel Huawei E180 on Snow Leopard
DéLonghi Magnifica loud noises fixed!
Horizontal remote controls anyone?
Motorola Milestone is tempting
Dell down, Microsoft makes hardware move
In the market for a new Logitech mouse
ThinkPad X40 secondary IDE #fail
Could the OpenOfficeMouse be chorded?
Android’s built in excuse?
Optus bill payment disconnect fail
Unmount discs without ejecting on Macs
The birth of a Sidekicking verb?
Why must external drives behave this way?
iPhoneUserNews and dull comment trolls
The Sun Oracle Database Machine
The new MacBook Pro inverter worked!
The Cliq beating Apple
Lousy networks more effective than filters!
HP LaserJet Error -9672 on Snow Leopard
BASIC on the iPhone Commodore 64
Doubts over my Cult of the Mac membership
Shot inverter in the MacBook Pro
No backlight on Snow Leopard MacBook Pro
PC DOS 7 on a ThinkPad X40?
An arm, a leg and a Drobo
Final review of ThinkPad X40 awesomeness
Got me a set of TrackPoint replacement caps
Initial ThinkPad X40 review, is gut!
Craptastic versus good quality second hand?
Does Crucial.com mess up your iPhone 3G?
Grabbing an IBM Thinkpad X40!
Coffee shops starting to ban laptops?
Do not be afraid of tablet computers!
MacBook Pro trackpad on OpenSolaris
iTelephone 3.0.1
iPhoneUserNews is a breath of fresh air
Optus phone reconnection adventures
Mac keycaps for Unicomp keyboards
Another spiffy new MacBook Pro battery
Taking Paul Thurrott to task on the Zune HD
More Commodore 16 Unicomp keyboard comparions
MacBook Pro ExpressCard slot debacle?
Comparing my Unicomp to my Commodore 16
I almost got my Unicomp SpaceSaver! Blast!
I love my new Unicomp buckling spring keyboard!
No carrier error for SingTel EVDO
Affordable MacBook Air, Green Hummers
Kudos to Unicomp
Just ordered a Unicomp SpaceSaver keyboard
Landscape iTelephone keyboard everywhere!
Followup iTelephone Optus unlocking post
Using my unlocked iTelephone in Singapore
Unicomp and CVT keyboards
IBM Model M and Northgate Omnikey keyboards
Swag from the Singapore PC Expo 2009
Brief comments about new MacBooks
Pouring coffee on a laptop wasn’t a good idea
My Intel Inside Xeon stickers arrived
An open letter to tech journalists
PC DOS 2000 boots on an Armada M300!
SG$700 for a Kindle? Thanks but no thanks
The optical and magnetic media tag race
MacBook Pro wishing out loud and whatnot
Review of AirMe for iPhone and iPod Touch
Excited about the AF-S NIKKOR DX 35mm f/1.8G
Moving to Linux from FreeBSD on my Armada M300
I have some barred locations on my phone line!
Optus stole my sanity again
Disabling the PC speaker in FreeBSD
An iPhone uh oh message
Apple awarded patent for the iPhone interface
Optus slapped with a fine for sending spam
So Apple isn’t giving up trade shows?
The unnessisary excess of multipe ink cartridges
An involved Optus customer support debacle
Is this shipping table normal?
What the 15 inch MacBook Pro really needs
Search for a killer desktop replacement combo
Late Linehaul Frt Delayed and other observations
Drive catastrophe, good thing I have solid backups
Ruben’s words of camera phone wisdom
iPhone 2.2 makes MobileSafari usable again!
Western Digital Scorpio Black 298GiB goodness
My review was featured on Elgato.com!
Possible reason why there’s no MacBook FireWire
Sophisticated MacBook Pro cooling consulting solution
Apple, these are my FireWire drives
Only problem so far with the iPhone: MobileSafari
MacBook a winner, unless you need FireWire
Keyboard and coffee, Sent from my iPhone
The penultimate plus one MacBook FireWire post
Addressing some MacBook FireWire arguments
Apple still claims the MacBook includes FireWire
Obituary for FireWire 1999-2008
Apple’s tragic FireWire MacBook mistake
New aluminium block MacBook Pros are nice, mostly!
New Apple notebook hardware, waffle irons
Nobody will ever need 16GiB, right?
My kingdom for a bigger notebook hard drive
BeOS, the Amiga, now the iPhone?
Okay okay I got an iPhone!
On the Mawson Lakes library and common sense
Do we all like HP’s new logo?
VIDEO: Replacing the fan in my MacBook Pro
Eye really like my EyeTV
OPEN Networks can’t spell Porsche
Phone line connection musings
Just ordered a Yubikey
The iPhone in Australia
FreeBSD on an Armada M300 rocks
Data capacity then and now, pretty amazing!
Showing network drives on an OS X desktop
Incredible SGD579 laptop deal
Uh oh
Inheriting a little Armada M300 subnotebook!
Intel’s breathtaking photos from Twitter
Faulty Intel DQ35JO motherboard fun
On low profile PCI cards and Microsoft tax
The mysterious little DFE-670TXD
Nokia e61i screenshot of iPhone site
Why I probably couldn’t own an iPhone
My beautiful iBook is working again!
Mixed reaction to August 2007 iPod crop
iPod features I’d love to see and love to hate
Sim Lim Square and the Athlon X2
COMEX Singapore 2007 expedition
Damn your new iMacs and iWork Apple!
Hide-a-pod on Cranky Geeks
Yet another iPhone post
Seagate hard disk shot my FireWire port
Ruben’s sexy new Mighty Mouse!
iPhone and Zune, no comparison!
Anyone Used a Creative Xmod?
Latest Rubenerd Outage
First Blu-ray Disc Drive Won’t Play Blu-ray Movies
Commodore 64 T-Shirt
Orange Juice Cleaning Products?
Ridata 8GB CompactFlash Card
Great IT Spares eBay Australia Store
Integrated Mainboards and AC’97
Modem Versus WinModem
Apple Battery Recall
The SwiMP3 Player
Michelin’s Airless Tyres
Mac OS X 0x80020025 blank DVD and CD error
The Mug Boss from Think Geek
Sustainable Style, Living and Design
Biometric Passports in Singapore
My 486 Laptop Arrived!
Birthday 486
I’m 20! And Useless eBay Purchase!
XBox 360 Launched in Australia
The Power Mac 4400/200