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Ecgo Computers and eBay

Monday, September 1st, 2008

Ok so if you find yourself here you are most likely having problems with ECgo (sorry about that but you are not the only one to have suffered so take heart from that). I have compiled some information here to help you if you are struggling to get somewhere – First – Use eBay and [...]

Want to repair a bad flash?

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

The other day I was fiddling around with my mainboard when I managed to get the power cut off in the middle of a BIOS update. That meant the machine did not POST or anything with a nice black scree no noise from the machine (bleeps) or anything remotely useful. I tried the normal resetting [...]

Merlin XU870 and T-Mobile image compression

Thursday, December 13th, 2007

So I finally managed to get hold of a Merlin XU870 adapter (rebadged as a Dell wireless 5510) so after installing the horrid Dell software to get it to work I find the images of websites are still annoying.. Hell I could put up with it to a certain degree but finally I jhave cracked.. [...]

GB3ES

Saturday, July 21st, 2007

So last night I was off out for some milk when I came across Lemmy chatting to someone I know from the radio exams I’m asked to help out with from time to time. Imagine my surprise when I’m given a link to The Laughing Policeman and asked to search for GB3ES.. I come up [...]

Weeee..

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

How cool is Linux? This cool..

Testing Music

Sunday, May 13th, 2007

Well Lemmy was waffling to me earlier about where to find a Music plugin for the blog software we both use so.. I downloaded it and err.. installed it while chatting to him.. Seems pretty good, easy to use too what do you think of the player? neat [audio:http://www.chains-log.co.uk/Music/Giana.mp3]

Just what is Broadband?

Monday, August 14th, 2006

Broadband is a word used to describe a type of connection between computers, although more advanced, it bears a lot in common with the old Dial Up connection everyone used a few years ago. For instance you still have a modem that connects your computer to the internet service provider (ISP) like for instance AOL [...]

LinkSys WAG54GS – ADSL 2+ Tweaks *how to*

Saturday, June 10th, 2006

Ok so I have found this of use and thought maybe some others could do with the info so here it is: Firstly the Belkin 7633 uses the Broadcom 6348 chipset and the LinkSys WAG54GS uses the Broadcom 6338 which both work in almost exactly the same way. Please note I’m running the 1.00.8 firmware, [...]

LinkSys WAG54GS – Line Stats

Monday, June 5th, 2006

So how do you look at the line stats on the LinkSys WAG54GS? Well you do this – Turn on debug mode: http://192.168.0.1/setup.cgi?todo=debug Telnet to the router: $ telnet 192.168.0.1 $ adslctl info –stats adslctl: ADSL driver and PHY status Status: Showtime Channel: FAST, Upstream rate = 256 Kbps, Downstream rate = 2048 Kbps Link [...]

More inTERactive than inactive.

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

Well in the name of progress I’m going to start to make this site a little more interactive over the next couple of weeks. Firstly you will now notice a new bar at the top of the page which will enable you to listen to some retro remixes from Remix.Kwed.org. So excuse me while I [...]