Category: Computers

  • Diyode CodeShield V1.1

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    Simon Clark
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    Last weekend was SoOnCon, Southern Ontario’s annual hackerspace / makerspace / community workshop. This years was hosted by Diyode, and as is tradition, we were tasked with coming up with an interesting badge. We took this as an opportunity to throw our resources into the codeshield, get some proper circuit boards made, and get a…

  • Backup your Mac to remote server

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    Mark Zander
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    There are quite a few examples out there in how to use rsync to duplicate how Timemachine does its backups. This is the article which first inspired me. http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/rsync_time_machine.html But I still had some problems with it. Firstly you either had to pull the backup from the Mac. My Mac is not on all the…

  • Rebuilding Computers

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    Simon Clark
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    Over the last year or so, we’ve had many computers donated to us in various states of non-function.  We have rebuilt many of these into functional systems, installed the latest Ubuntu Desktop linux on them, and are hoping to find homes for them where they can be of use. If you are having trouble affording…