I’ve practically lived on a computer since I was six years old. So, they’ve featured prominently in my life for four decades. I document some of those experiments and adventures here.
I’ve had a few people message me on Facebook asking exactly how my network is setup, now that I’ve added the TP-Link TL-WR702N into the mix. It looks a bit of a mess, and this isn’t the kind of imagery I’m typically used to making in Photoshop, but this is the basic setup.
So, I’m now officially a Trucker. A CubieTrucker, that is. It arrived yesterday, sadly about half an hour before I had to go out, so I pretty much just had chance to put the case together (almost), and didn’t really get to play with it properly at all. But, it’s beautiful, look at it!
This is a bit of a mini follow up to my recent post on AirPlay (I’ll be doing a longer one once I’ve got everything running the way I hope it will – Edit: never mind, scroll down to the bottom). After discovering Reflector and having a good play with it, I started to wonder…
When I first heard of AirPlay, I figured “Apple only”, being the proprietary types that they are. I’d always seen it bandied about with words like “Apple TV“, “iMac” and “Macbook Pro“. As the only Apple devices I own are iPhones and iPads, I never really looked much further into it. A few days ago,…
I’ve been using DropBox for probably about 3 years now, and it’s rather good. Overall, I’ve been quite impressed. It’s reliable, fairly quick (bandwidth permitting), and fantastic for delivering work to clients and models. Delivery of final work to clients and models I’ve shot with has been pretty much my sole reason for using DropBox, and…
Cross compiling is something I’ve never really had a need to do before. All of my past Linux machines have been your standard 32Bit or 64Bit x86 based PCs, and have been fast enough that I’ve been able to compile on the machine it’ll be running on. But, if a 15 hour XBMC compile taught…
I’ll get around to the “why” of this in another post, but I’ve decided to setup VirtualBox on one of my Windows machines. With using Raspbian and Cubian, I figured I should probably keep things consistent and go with Debian.
With XBMC on the CubieBoard a bust. It’s time to go back to my original thought, which is to set it up as a web server. While I will generally run this without a monitor connected, I have decided to restore from the backup that already has LXDE installed. Yes, I could set it up…
The very first result that Google gave me when trying to find information on running XBMC on the CubieBoard (which is powered by the Allwinner A10), was this link. http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=Android_hardware This, in clear letters states… “Avoid hardware that uses the Allwinner series of chips (such as the Allwinner A10). Development is not going well for…
This is one of those posts that’s purely here for my own reference documenting what I need to do in the event that I need to start all this over from scratch. This isn’t necessarily the exact order in which I’ve done things this time, as it’s taking me longer to resolve some issues over…
