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Reviving an Archimedes |
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Written by Paul Dunning
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Monday, 18 April 2011 00:00 |
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The other week, I switched on an old computer - my Acorn Archimedes. It’s a 300 series machine, which makes it 24 years old. It started up, then started again, then again and then went dead. It hadn’t been started for a few years and knowing that the BBC Micro has problems with the power supply unit when it’s been left for a long time (they tend to blow capacitors), I suspected that this was the case here.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 May 2011 11:08 |
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Firing up the Electron |
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Written by Paul Dunning
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Monday, 07 March 2011 00:00 |
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I have an Acorn Electron. It’s the second one I’ve owned. The first being a rather temperamental example that I bought in 1984. It kept breaking down, so I managed to get my money back on it. It was spending more time being mended that I was using it for playing Elite hard work and study. To be fair, it did kick off a project for my computer studies at school, but that ended up being completed on a more powerful BBC Model B there.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 May 2011 11:02 |
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“Windows Support Department” |
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Written by Paul Dunning
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Tuesday, 22 February 2011 00:00 |
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I had a phone call from an outfit calling themselves “Windows Support Department”. Apparently my machine is doing “malicious” things on the internet and they can help me solve these problems.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 31 May 2011 10:54 |
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Downgrading the iPhone - Back to 3.1.3! |
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Written by Paul Dunning
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Tuesday, 29 June 2010 00:00 |
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You may have read my tale of woe. I updated my iPhone 3G to iOS4, and it went wrong. Hideously wrong.
And I am not alone - Apple’s support forums are reporting similar issues - this update seems to have affected many people. It seems that the “-34” and “files not found” errors I was getting was something to do with the downsampling of music to 128kbs.
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My iPhone iOS4 Update Woes |
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Written by Paul Dunning
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Friday, 25 June 2010 00:00 |
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This week, Apple pushed out the iOS 4 update for their iPhones. This update is supposed to be compatible with the iPhone 3G (which is what I have), so I elected to update it. Little did I know problems it would cause.
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