Eek! Almost as bad as sneezing with tiny surface mount capacitors on the bench.

Got down to my Dad's house in Cornwall this evening and found the broadband dead.

After about 45 minutes on the phone the BT it seems that there's a general BT Openreach outage in the area. Oh well, having to use my phone as a 4G relay.

Phew!

The Apricot Xi was having difficulty spinning up its hard drive again after being left a few days, so this evening I took the drive out again. After lifting the PCB I checked the felt on the brake and its operation. Seemed OK but dosed the solenoid and the pivot with some light oil. I also cleaned t...

I don't know what passworded means in this case, but unless something at a very low level (bios level) is stopping linux writing to it, trashing is perfectly possible if you choose the wrong device. He's encrypted the drive. This will mean that it is unable to be resized without destroying it or ac...

Today's fun has been organising hedge cutting at my Dad's house form 300 miles away at short notice. Yesterday I had a decorator visit the house and give a quotation for external redecoration and he gave an offer to start today, which I jumped at. This morning he texted me saying that to get to one ...

Yout have got a 74LS76 and not a 74LS76A haven't you? The truth tables are quite different and with an A variant the K and J values are ignored by the second stage. Screenshot_20240416_121850.jpeg P.S. Putting a logic analyser onto U64 pins 6, 7, 8, 9 and 11 would be useful as the relative timing o...

Yout have got a 74LS76 and not a 74LS76A haven't you? The truth tables are quite different and with an A variant the K and J values are ignored by the second stage.

I know what you're thinking. Been there, done that for years but the Raspberry Pi OS configurator really does make it very simple. If in doubt, just pick the correct machine type and a basic Raspberry Pi Linux and click on the Next buttons. Any extra configuration will be done with the wizard which ...

I think that you're expecting things to be more complicated than they are and am then getting confused as to why it's not asking you awkward questions and looking for complexity and tying yourself up in knots. They've taken a lot of effort to make it almost foolproof and simple. In that last screen ...