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Tag Archives: Hardware
GPO 746 Rotary Dial Phone – Remember these?
UK GPO 746 Rotary Dial Telephone
When I was small I have memories of my grandma and my parents owning one of these phones, not that they had much choice of course since it wasn’t until the early 80s that other companies were allowed to make phones in the UK; before that it was the good old GPO’s job to rent one out to you. I took mine to bits to fix the dial, it kept sticking, and while taking it apart I took some photos which are attached to links throughout this post. Read on, this is more than a bunch of photos…… Continue reading
Attempting to repair my FAL Phase 44 amplifier
FAL Phase 44 Amplifier
Sometime last year my old Kenwood hifi amp stopped working due to the speaker cutout relays not working. The speakers would never switch on, making for a fairly useless amplifier.
While my cousin was sorting out his mess before moving to the US he found this old “FAL”… Continue reading | 3 Comments
Posted in Projects, Technology
Tagged amp, Broken, electronics, Hardware, old, retro, Weird
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Ubuntu 9.10 – Tedious Timewaste
I’m attempting to install Ubuntu 9.10 server edition on my server. To say it’s not going smoothly would be as big an understatement as saying “That Hitler bloke, he was a bit naughty, wasn’t he?”. The damn thing just won’t boot up! It gets as far as saying ‘Grub Loading.’ and then gets no further.
At first I thought it might be the weird combination of IDE controllers and disks I… Continue reading
Blogs and websites I like to read
I use Google Reader to follow quite a lot of websites, blogs and anything else interesting that squirts out an RSS feed. For the curious, here is a list of my favourites. I’m leaving out the well known things like XKCD, Dilbert, Hack-a-day and so on.
- http://uncertaintimes.tumblr.com/ I have no idea what this is about, but it never fails to display interesting and random images at
Posted in Links, Personal
Tagged Art, Hardware, hyperlinks, Photography, Programming, retro, Website, Weird
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General Failure's superior – Kernel Panic
While logging into my Windows PC I noticed it was failing to get an IP address from DHCP. After checking the cabling I plugged a screen into my server and saw this.
Oh dear, reboot time I guess. Best go make a cup of tea while the terabyte disk checks itself too.