What was meant to be a job lasting an hour and a half, maybe two hours ended up consuming my entire day. I spent roughly seven hours building my new machine today (well, my old machine but with new quiet parts). Everything that could go wrong, did go wrong:

Numerous problems fitting CD drive to case
No [...]

It became clear to me today that I no longer require the services of my Mac Mini. While I love the little machine, at this point in time it would just be a waste to keep it. Thus, I announce to the world that I am selling the little anzac. It cost me around $1200 [...]

Friday saw the arrival at uni of my nice new Powermac (henceforth known as Bender given its large, heavy and shiny metal casing). Having only ever used G4 Macs, I was very excited to take a new Dual G5 for a spin. Below are just some of my observations about the various aspects of the [...]

My love for all Apple products is clear and well known. I love my main Linux desktop; it is a marvellous machine and when it comes to “mainstream” hardware, there is NO alternative to Gentoo, it is quite simply too good. However, I have noticed something over recent months; I have developed a severe disdain [...]

My stupid video card fan makes an EXTREMELY annoying noise and for a long time I have been thinking about replacing it with one which has no fan. However, tonight I went one step further. When thinking about a new machine (with Mick’s shiny new AMD64 getting through a kernel compile in 3 minutes I [...]