Friday 26 of September, 2025
One of the things that has been holding me back on progress with the dolls house is the simple fact that once glued up it will be difficult to move around. I've been looking for options to solve the problem and having not found anything off the shelf that I could adapt I've sat down and drawn up a cutting plan to build a trolley from scratch. Part of the poking was the set of casters that Lidl was selling…
Monday 22 of September, 2025
Monday 15 of September, 2025
A new 1Tb SSD drive rolled up on Saturday night, and so yesterday was dedicated to rebuilding the old server using Tumbleweed. This is documented on Building a new machine and I also have cloned the plex server over to the new disk which also needs documenting! There is now a second copy of all the websites running on the 8443/8080 ports which I can quickly switch in the BT router if the new server baulks again. Tidying mirr…
Friday 12 of September, 2025
Well I had bought a new 4k monitor to replace the TV , but getting it to work at 4k has been a bit of a trial as only two of the outputs on the computer will actually go that fast. On older cards I have had 4k out of the VGA port direct to a high res VGA monitor, but here I'm using a VGA to HDMI dongle which is limited to 1080P. Which of cause is all the TV needed even at VGA. So a nice Nvidia GT730 4 hdmi output was up to run out in an hour and only £30. Quick look at the spec and…
Thursday 11 of September, 2025
The True Meaning of Open Source ... A little relaxation away from software and a prompt as to why I put up with the aggro of software at all.