Controlling mains powered devices using home built circuits risks exposing those circuits and the operator to mains voltages. This risk can be completely avoided by adapting one of the many Remote Mains Control Devices. (more…)
Last week, I got a chance to use the system live, I was away for a week with only the EeePC system and a three.co.uk 3G phone from Sony for a modem. All did not go well! (more…)
If a VMWare Server/Workstation or VMWare Player make life easy when mixing Linux and Windows on a single system, then a VPS will wipe the floor with them if you need to run several Linux environments and are not worried about high end graphics. (more…)
I have used VMWare Workstation and more recently VMWare Player to both allow me to run Linux and Windows on the same computer and run several instances of Linux - to keep projects seperate from each other and to allow new versions of software to be tried without damaging the main working environment. (more…)