Olivetti Philos 46 – Revisiting my First PC
Back in winter 1994 I remember spending one wet and windy evening sitting patiently in the aisles of PC World in Northampton as my dad spoke to a salesman with…
This Pentium Pro Machine Was Found in a Shed!
Last summer I was bored while my wife and daughter were away visiting family, so I began to look into the Retro PC scene. The problem was that where I…
My £750 PC Build
Seeing as my main gaming rig is also my video editing PC and it now sits in my workshop, I'm in need of a "basic" gaming PC for the living…
Upgrade the Toshiba Portege Z930 Ultrabook
The Portege Z930 can be picked up dirt cheap on auction sites these days. They've gotten long enough in the teeth that companies are getting rid, but they're still workable…
Review: Antec PRIZM Matrix
The PRIZM Matrix from antec is a pretty unique concept. These days pretty much all cases can accept a multitude of fans with the bare minimum on even a small…
Create a PC Stats Display with Raspberry Pi
If you’re a PC enthusiast you probably like to keep track of your systems stats while you’re working or playing.
With games this always meant you had to keep an overlay program running, which can get in the way of, you know, actually gaming.
Thankfully it’s shockingly easy to setup a second display to show all this information for you, and all you need is a Raspberry Pi, a compatible screen and about 15 minutes.
Review: TP-Link Archer C5400X
Appearance This is quite possibly the most ridiculous looking router I've ever seen. I work in the enterprise IT field, so my perception of what a router should look like…
Allow DLNA Devices to Connect to Plex
Newer versions of Plex Media Server do not allow unauthorised devices to connect to the DLNA server by default.
This can be particularly annoying for devices like HiFi receivers with network connectivity, which are capable of streaming from DLNA servers but have no native Plex app available.
To get around this you can explicitly permit access to devices without the need for authorisation.
The first thing to do is navigate to your Plex Media Server homepage via a web browser, then click the settings menu in the top-tight corner:
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Two-Group Mentality
The current pandemic has given me an opportunity to take stock of things, an opportunity which was way overdue it seems. For the last couple of years I've juggled, not…
Help Fight COVID-19 with Folding@Home
The current COVID-19 pandemic is a terrible thing. Thankfully brains much larger than yours or mine are working tirelessly to understand the virus better and come up with a solution to the problem.
While most of us are sat at home watching Netflix there is an operation under foot to crunch through as muich data as possible in the hope of finding viable treatment options for the virus.