charm
Chief geek to hundreds of computer refurbishing volunteers.
Clean computers last longer
A few days ago I wrote about the effects of smoking on a computer. The long and short of that post was that tar from smoking tends to coat components of the system and attract dust. Enough dust and tar eventually leads to fans ceasing and parts starting to fail. As a computer ages it [...]
Kitchener / Waterloo Drupal Users’ Group April 19, 2012 @ 7pm
The Kitchener / Waterloo Regional Drupal Users’ Group meets tonight, April 19, 2012, 7pm at the front of The Working Centre – the 58 Queen Street South location. At tonight’s meeting Stéphane Corlosquet returns to talk to us about Drupal 7 and schema.org for a more structured Web. I was present for Stéphane’s last talk and I found [...]
Linux games that work with the Microsoft SideWinder Joystick
On April 12th I posted some general information about the Microsoft Sidewinder joystick. As I mention in the post the Sidewinder is really a flight simulator joystick, it’s not meant to replace a gamepad, but it does work with several Linux games. I thought I’d take the time to mention a few Linux games it [...]
Compiling software in Ubuntu Linux
As many of you know I maintain a Youtube channel #chaslinux. This morning I quickly put together a video on compiling software under Ubuntu Linux. Technorati Tags: compiling, Linux, Ubuntu, Youtube
Effects of smoking on computers
This is not intended to be a lecture on smoking. It’s simply an observation of the effects of smoking on one computer our refurbishing project built. Many people smoke without seeing these effects on their system. If you keep your computer in a well ventilated place with lots of space around the computer, or just [...]
