I had a good old Asus EEE 1005HA netbook running Windows 7 just fine, albeit slow. The best way of speed it up was to upgrade it to a SSD. The I/O difference should speed it up considerably as the original disk was a 5400rpm one. The SSD prices are low enough, too. So I went and bought a small, reasonably...
One of the many uses of an Arduino board is using it as an ISP (In-System Programmer). Which means burning bootloaders or programs without use of a bootloader directly to the ATmega CPU. Why would somebody need to do that? Here is a real example. I bought a 9 Degrees of Freedom Razor IMU a while ago...
During the BlogEngine upgrade from 2.0 to 2.5 (one that hosts this blog) I’ve come across a problem. The problem might happen during execution of the SQL Server upgrade scripts that come with BlogEngine 2.5. After running the scripts I’ve got an error mentioning that constraint FK_be_PostComment_be_Posts...
Last year I wrote about how to get an Internet access in Croatia during vacation (if you must, that is). I am very pleased to say, that this year you get a ton of bytes much cheaper. In fact the current tariff is: 100MB = 15kn 500MB = 45kn 1GB = 65kn Price has been heavily reduced compared to last year...
If you are an Internet addict and can’t live without it even on vacation in Croatia then here is a cheap solution. Forget about roaming because it is insanely expensive (the stupid discussions in EU were all about SMS prices, not a word on data connection prices, though it wouldn’t matter in Croatia...