Christmas this year was one big tech breakdown in the Berg home Already in December, the antenna signal deteriorated and DVB-T units got all “pixly”. Colleague Niklas (the antenna guy) helped me out by swapping the aerial for a new one I bought, but the measuring equipment handy was only showing actual signal power and not […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One common problem in the Android domain is that the system evolves but that the operators and hardware vendors do not follow the path of upgrades, so even using fairly fresh hardware, you are stuck with the version supplied in the purchase. The reason for this guide is that I upgraded the system software in […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The subscription for Speedcams on my MIO Navman M450 ran out. It’s a logical model to sell the hardware at a fair profit, and then add revenue to the business by subscriptions on up-to-date maps, speedcams and points of interest. Trouble is that they sell the updates at rates of a new piece of hardware. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Howdy! I just got upgraded to the VDSL service of my ISP (branded it “TurboDSL”) but now I tried swedish “bredbandskollen” (webbased tool for measuring the access speed of the broadband). The service should offer up to 20-40 Mbit/s downstream and some 10Mbit/s upstream. I reached a measly 8Mbit/s on the downlink. This is total […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It seems I will never be an Ubuntu friend. It has AGAIN crapped on me twice! * My daughters PC is based on an ASUS motherboard, but it seems that the NIC (Network Interface Card) doesn’t work. There are a few more or less complex solutions to it, but it seems no plug and play […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
OK, I fixed my oldest daughters PC broken. A bit of patching and fixing, wherafter the Windows XP installation was f*cked. Mea culpa – noone else to blame … I installed Ubuntu, mainly to recover her files but it seems she finds it acceptable so it might be that we skip the Windows installation altogether. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…