Author Archives: Jeremy

First impressions of Galaxy Tab by a developer

Posted on Monday, 8 August, 2011 by Jeremy

Seth Clifford, CIO of Nickelfish and his thoughts on the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Physically, the 10.1 is a great feeling device in the hand. Thinner and lighter than you expect it to be, with a gorgeous screen and all the requisite hardware checkboxes filled. I’m not sure how I feel about the 16:9 frame, though. No, scratch that, I’m pretty sure I don’t like it.

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Smokey corners

Posted on Wednesday, 3 August, 2011 by Jeremy

Late braking turning my front left into smoke!

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Lion recovery partition.

Posted on Friday, 22 July, 2011 by Jeremy

As I found when I installed the latest edition of Mac OSx onto my macbook the just downloaded install media self destructs after it has finished reading it’s message. In order to prevent this from happening you have to take a copy of the installation DMG from the package contents prior to installation. Looks like I’ll be downloading another copy of Lion shortly. In addition Lion seems to create a 650mb partition called Recovery HD but this doesn’t appear to include the installation media which requires another download from the Apple servers. Not very friendly for people who don’t have easy access to the internet like myself. Given the Recovery partition doesn’t include the installation media I have to wonder why it needs to be as large as it is – surely on base Macbook Air this is significant for … Continue reading →

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Lucky?

Posted on Thursday, 21 July, 2011 by Jeremy

Sent from a work colleague. Unsure of source.

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Caught out in the rain without a hard top

Posted on Monday, 18 July, 2011 by Jeremy

Stayed overnight at friends place to help celebrate his housewarming and to help with the wiring on his car. Success all around except I didn’t have my hard top on and it rained overnight. Soft top works but it feels like an umbrella compared to a solid roof!

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Inside the J702T

Posted on Friday, 15 July, 2011 by Jeremy

I just prised off the bottom plate on the ignitor. Seems to be filled with a sticky silicon, I imagine I’ll need to desolder the board from the pins.

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Mitsubishi Power TR Unit J702T

Posted on Friday, 15 July, 2011 by Jeremy

Just received my MX5 ignitor from ebay that I’ll be gutting to make a plug and play Coil On Plug setup for my MX5. Hopefully will provide a stronger spark and the Toyota COP units are much cheaper to replace than the expensive Mazda coilpack.

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Words with friends

Posted on Friday, 15 July, 2011 by Jeremy

JUDO for 45 points…   Woo!

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Family by the window

Posted on Thursday, 14 July, 2011 by Jeremy

Manual focus Russian lens on Canon 400D.

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Overnumerousness!

Posted on Wednesday, 13 July, 2011 by Jeremy

[The 8+ Club are playing Street Countdown] Prime: Eighteen letters, I’ve never seen so many… he is the One. Roy: [incredulously] What are you… Prime: Shh! This is the longest word yet on Street Countdown! Unlike normal Countdown, you see… Roy: I don’t care. [The 8+ Club finish an acapella version of the Countdown music] Prime: Negative One? Negative One: Twelve. Moss: Sixteen. Prime: Your word, Negative One. Negative One: Enormousness. Moss: I shall give my answer, if I may, in the form of a joke. Prime: This is most irregular… Moss: What do you call Negative One sitting alone in an empty room? Prime: I don’t know, what do you call Negative One sitting alone in an empty room? Moss: Overnumerousness! Prime: Gyles?\ Gyles: Yes, that is a word! And the joke makes sense! The Final Countdown (The IT Crowd)

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