A few months ago, I supplied a Dell charger and battery for an older laptop. Because I wanted to get them at the same time, with a single postage charge, and the battery was quite difficult to find, when I found a site that had both available, namely adaptershop.co.nz, I ordered them both. I realised…
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EBikes – Dual Battery Management System
The only commercial developer of dual battery electric bikes I have seen to date is Bosch, who do an optional Dual Battery kit, which one or two manufacturers have taken up. Being proprietary technology, there is not a lot out there about it. The only two things I can glean are: 1. The real technology…
Anatomy of a scam
This post may take a few days, so keep coming back! Some background first. I repair computers, and a few customers (3 or 4) have been hit by the “Windows Corporation” scam, where someone thief rings up with a very Indian accent, but with a very English name, claiming to be from the Windows Corporation,…
Onion Omega – next steps
I have made some serious changes to the PHP web page which servers up the door controls and web cam images, so I decided to finally get FTP access to the files on the Omega. The arrival of my second Omega made this even more relevant! Wirelessly access and edit the files on your Omega…
Business Directories – unsolicited entries
I seem to be getting a number of requests by phone and email to confirm details for an entry on yet another internet business directory. I fell for this as the start, adding myself to a couple of directories, at the time they were respectable and small business advisers advised “claiming” your listing. Since then,…
Garage Door Opener – a tinier computer project
Despite the issues with bricking the device and it recovering itself in a random state, I decided to go with what I had rather than risk bricking it again. This caused a few issues, but I can live with them. Below are the steps and some notes about how things went.In the picture below is…
Garage Door opener – intermission
The last post about Garage Door openers detailed the building of the garage door opener, but blurs the time line of events a bit. Initially I got the opener working fine, and it worked well for a few days, but was a little flakey – nothing you could detail, it just reacted strangely at times,…
Garage door opener – tiny computer project
Recently we had two new garage doors installed, to replace very old clunky things. The new doors are sectional, insulated and have brand new automatic openers. They are draft free and the temperature in the workshop is a few degrees higher, and the noise level is a lot lower. With the doors came 4 key…
Windows 7 – Windows 10 couldn’t upgrade error
I get this occasionally on computers that weren’t upgraded during the free Windows 10 period. Every time you go into the update screen, the first thing that pops up is an error regarding the Windows 10 upgrade failing. At first I thought this was a recent error, but t seems it is just a hang…
Stuck in Windows update – restarting forever
I am working on a customers laptop, and got rid off the problems it came in with (seizing to a stop as soon as he logged on). As a favour, I let the outstanding updates install. First of all the updates stuck at 99% updating for an age. But eventually it went into the restating…