Posts Tagged ‘USB’
USB C Charger Reviews
I’ve had a few things that charge from USB-C for a while: my Planet Gemini, Nintendo Switch, Oculus Quest, SteamDeck, GL-MT1300 travel router, and a bunch of Raspberry Pi 4s; but the arrival of my Lenovo X13 has had me kitting myself out with a bunch of new chargers. So here follows some reviews (with […]
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Tags: adaptor, Anker, cable, charger, GaN, Mackertop, mains, Mu, power, power bank, PSU, review, Syncwire, USB, USB A, USB C, USB-A, USB-C, Ziwodiv
Saturday was very rainy, so I thought I’d finally get around to upgrading my home lab from ESXi 5.5 to 6.5. I started with my #2 Gen 8 Microserver as I don’t have any live VMs on it, and thus began many wasted hours of reboot after reboot failing to get anything to work. Slow […]
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Tags: Flash, Gen 8, HP, HPE, iLO, iLO 4, ILO4, Microserver, NAND, reformat, slow, USB
Gizmo2 first impressions
The kind folk at Newark Element14 sent me a Gizmo2 dev board to try out. I’ve not been able to do much with it yet, so here are some first impressions. What is it? I’d completely missed the first generation Gizmo, and hadn’t heard of the new one until it was brought up by Brandon at Element14. […]
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Tags: board, dev, Gizmo2, Kodi, SFF, USB, x86, XBMC
USB Shaver Charger
TL;DR I hacked together my own USB shaver charger using a cheap DC-DC converter I bought on eBay, so fewer worries (and things to carry) next time I’m travelling. Background I use an electric shaver most days, and I travel a fair bit. Usually the battery is enough to get me through a trip, but […]
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Tags: adaptor, Braun, cable, charger, DC-DC, hack, MC34063A, shaver, USB
Raspberry Pi TV/PVR
Update (26 Jan 2013) This post is now a historical record of the hoops that I once had to jump through to get my Raspberry Pi working as a PVR. Everything has now been folded into the official OpenELEC build, which at the time of writing is at 3.0 RC2. You can download an SD […]
Filed under: howto, Raspberry Pi | 136 Comments
Tags: 9135, codec, divx, dvb, DVR, it913x, license, MPEG2, openelec, PVR, transcode, tv, TVHeadEnd, USB, XBMC
KVM mort
This isn’t a post about the KVM Hypervisor, which I believe is alive, well and rather good. This is a post about keyboard, video and mouse switches. At both home and work I have multiple machines, and monitors with multiple inputs, so all I need is a KM switch to share my keyboard and mouse […]
Filed under: could_do_better, technology | 2 Comments
Tags: digital, displayport, DVI, HDMI, keyboard, KVM, monitor, mouse, switch, USB, VGA, video
I like to get familiar with new versions of Windows early in the cycle, so it was great to see the Developer Preview being made available ahead of a beta. First impressions The new Metro interface hits right between the eyes. I can’t say that I’m a fan yet. It seems well adapted to touch screens, but I’m […]
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Tags: desktop, KVM, Metro, Microserver, N40L, USB, wifi, Windows 8, wireless
Every hotel room should have one
Last week I was very impressed to find this at my desk in the Westin Jersey City: and yesterday I found this in the Crowne Plaza Zurich: NB The D-Link pocket WiFi router being powered by the media bar USB. For some odd reason this hotel doesn’t have WiFi (but thankfully it does have free […]
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Tags: audio, HDMI, hotel, screen, tv, USB, VGA, video
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