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Pebble Time: First Thoughts
About a fortnight ago I added at Pebble Time to my collection of gadgetry. It’s one of the more basic second gen smartwatches, with a 64-colour e-ink screen rather than a touchscreen, as well as a...
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Factorise
As I mentioned in my previous blogpost, I am now the proud owner of a Pebble Time. This week I took the plunge and decided to make my own watchface in honour of xkcd #247 (“Factoring the time”). Pebble...
View ArticleInstalling CyanogenMod 12.1 onto a Nexus 4
And so it came to pass that the Nexus 4, which was already a year old when I bought two years ago, started getting slow. I was hopefully initially that Android M (marshmallow), Google’s latest version...
View ArticleSSD part 3: Upgrading to Windows 10
The first SSD I installed was into my laptop, back in April 2014. But since then I’ve shuffled them around, and I was back to having an old HDD. This was just about tolerable, but with the 240GB OCZ...
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Moving to https
Unless something has gone horribly wrong, you’re reading this on a secure ‘https’ (SSL) connection — the content of the website is encrypted on its way to (and from) your PC. Until even a couple of...
View ArticleConstitution of Uganda: primary sources
I’m doing quite a lot of research at the moment into the history of Uganda (1890 to present). Unfortunately it is not always easy to find primary sources and documents online. This is my running list,...
View ArticleTrying out VeraCrypt
A few months ago bought a new computer, and, in the midst of all the swapping around hard disks, realised it would be an opportune moment to enable full-disk encryption. Whenever enabling encryption,...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi revisited
As documented a long, long time ago, I’ve got an old Raspberry Pi (B 1.2) kicking around. I wanted to try to teach it some new tricks, but once again my first challenge was getting it set up. This...
View ArticleInstalling Pi-Hole
Once I’d got my Raspberry Pi back up and running, one of the things I was desperate to try out was Pi-Hole, a DNS sinkhole capable of running even on my extremely old Pi. DNS sinkholes make it...
View ArticleHardware-accelerated transcoding on the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B with DietPi
8 years after buying a Raspberry Pi Model 1B, I finally bit the bullet and invested in an upgrade, this time to the 8GB model of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (at the time on sale from Okdo for £62)....
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