If you’re scratching your head with one of these laptops, the magic thing you need to know is that the BIOS (version 1.19 anyway) will only boot a file with the path and name of: For my Debian install, I copied the contents of /EFI/debian into /EFI/Microsoft/Boot and then renamed shimx64.efi to bootmgfw.efi I wasted […]
I’ve been dabbling with APRS ever since I upgraded my mobile radio a few years ago. I’ve since added an APRS capable handheld radio to my equipment too. All of my transmitted position reports are picked up by someone else‘s receivers, which is nice but seems a bit one sided. I had a spare Raspberry […]
I’ve blogged before about my Lenovo Chromebook which I have been incredibly happy with. However, I was due to start studying for a degree and the pre-course material from the university suggested I would need a little more flexibility to install software than my Chromebook’s operating system provides. I could have continued to use the […]
In my radio shack I have a ‘Desktop’ PC. A traditional machine attached to a monitor and a keyboard and a mouse. My current machine was gifted to me by a local company that was refreshing its hardware. It’s about 15 years old, and works fine but it consumes a fair bit of electricity by […]
I recently registered a nice short domain name for someone. I had a choice of registrars. One was my usual domain registrar, and another was a local Isle of Man company who were significantly cheaper. I decided to buy local (and save money!) thinking that I was doing the right thing of supporting a business […]
I bought my first Chromebook back in 2014, and have been using it daily up until a year or so ago when it stopped receiving security updates. I’ve used it occasionally since but have always a bit wary of doing anything important on it. So, I decided to upgrade it. This time, I found a […]
I’ve had great service from my trusty Yaesu FT-7800E transceiver for around 15 years. It’s lived in a few different vehicles, performed really well and been easy to operate on the go. That is until a few months ago, when I started to get reports from other stations that my transmitted audio was weak intermittently… […]
For Christmas I decided I would like my own weather station. I knew that I wanted it to upload the data to the cloud so that I could see trends and access the information from anywhere. I did a fair amount of research and settled on what I wanted, but the UK company wanted to […]
After a recent trip away and having to endure the torrent of adverts and tracking that hotel Wi-Fi and mobile internet connections provide, I was definitely missing the ad-blocking features of my Raspberry Pi running Pi-Hole back at home. I’d also been thinking for a while that I should do something about securing my phone […]
I’m old enough to remember the World Wide Web in its infancy in the early 1990s, when the focus was on information sharing. These days the main aim of the web seems to be to make money by tracking people’s habits and showing them adverts. I missed the old experience, and I wanted some protection […]