03 Jan 2012
Having mounted my LED television on the wall I have a 80mm hole behind
the TV, through which all the cables arrive. No-one can see it of
course, but I know it’s there and it needs finishing, otherwise I might
start muttering incoherently.
17 Dec 2011
I have just created my first OpenSCAD design -
Bungee Cord Toggles. I
don’t actually know if it will print, but will have to wait until my
reprap is complete before trying.
06 Dec 2011
Phase 1 of the build of my RepRap Prusa is now complete and I have
photographed it thoroughly, to assist others with their build and for
general interest.
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I have even taken a brief video, apologies for the lack of lighting:
21 Nov 2011
I was surprised to realise that I have not yet blogged about my latest
project - building a Reprap 3D Printer.
I have been following the RepRap project
for some time, but it always seemed to me to require hardware hacking
skills that were that little bit beyond me.
24 Oct 2011
I just had to remind myself how to scan to OCR, and thought I would
share the results.
Before you start, you need to have sane installed, and you also need
tesseract-ocr - both should be available in your distros repositories.
22 Oct 2011
I read today that Google and Samsung have unveiled Galaxy Nexus Android 4.
It has been well known that the Android 3.x is not open source
yet, but I had expected 3.x to be open sourced at any moment. Now that
4.x has been released and there is still no sign of the 3.x or 4.x source code, I think
we have to ask - is Android really open source now?
17 Oct 2011
Remember the announcement that FreeNAS was moving to Debian from BSD?
Well today the fruits of that decision have now arrived.
13 Jul 2011
I have finally registered chrisjrob.com for my blog. Please update your bookmarks,
feeds, etc.
http://chrisjrob.com/
20 Jun 2011
One of the most wonderful things about the web and open source are that
all you need is a computer, an Internet connection, a domain name and a
text editor and you can host your own website. The Internet is a great
equaliser - a teenager in his/her bedroom truly can reach out to the
world with a service that is every bit as good as those created by
billion-dollar companies and maybe better.
Until now.
13 Jun 2011
An interesting blog post about ownCloud.
ownCloud is a webdav based application allowing you to
store files on your own personal server on the Internet and access them
via http or webdav.