ewanm89 blog » Hardware http://ewanm89.co.uk Ewan's blog Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:25:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha Anti-RickRoll http://ewanm89.co.uk/2008/04/14/45/ http://ewanm89.co.uk/2008/04/14/45/#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:52:06 +0000 ewanm89 http://ewanm89.co.uk/?p=45 I’m fed up of these youtube rickrolls, so I’ve made a nice little greasemonkey script to do this instead.

Unfortunately if I upload script people will know how to rickroll me, and I don’t want that… So I have a bit of a dilemma…

]]> http://ewanm89.co.uk/2008/04/14/45/feed/ 0 Catch up post http://ewanm89.co.uk/2007/09/14/cacth-up-post/ http://ewanm89.co.uk/2007/09/14/cacth-up-post/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:30:24 +0000 ewanm89 http://ewanm89.co.uk/?p=28 Sorry haven’t posted in a while. Been busy getting ready to go to university next Saturday (22nd Sept). For those of you don’t know, I’m going to Royal Holloway University of London to read Computer Science.

In other news, about three weeks ago I tried to play a DVD in my laptop. It wouldn’t play and BIOS stopped detecting that the drive even existed. Yesterday I found out that the drive was removable and one of the data pins had come out of contact when I inserted the DVD.

]]> http://ewanm89.co.uk/2007/09/14/cacth-up-post/feed/ 2 Laptop cardreader, ENE Tecnology http://ewanm89.co.uk/2007/08/13/laptop-cardreader-ene-tecnology/ http://ewanm89.co.uk/2007/08/13/laptop-cardreader-ene-tecnology/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2007 21:56:29 +0000 ewanm89 http://ewanm89.co.uk/?p=35 If you have a laptop and it has a cardreader that doesn’t seem to work on linux.

This one lspci reports as:
06:04.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Memory Stick Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
06:04.2 Generic system peripheral [0805]: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Secure Digital Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
06:04.3 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc: (rev 01)
06:04.4 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc SD/MMC Card Reader Controller (rev 01)

Check, for /dev/ files that look lik /dev/mmcblk0 and /dev/mmcblk0p1. It may just work (on recent kernels).

mount with something like “sudo mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt”

All the files will be under /mnt/ in this example.

and don’t forget to umount it with “sudo umount /mnt” before you yank it out.

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Just doing my bit.

]]> http://ewanm89.co.uk/2007/05/10/09-f9-11-02-9d-74-e3-5b-d8-41-56-c5-63-56-88-c0/feed/ 2 Got ISO http://ewanm89.co.uk/2007/04/20/got-iso/ http://ewanm89.co.uk/2007/04/20/got-iso/#comments Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:07:28 +0000 ewanm89 http://ewanm89.co.uk/?p=19 Downloaded the 64 bit Kubuntu Feisty Fawn ISO to burn and install on my new laptop. Windows will be off it as soon as I know I have a rescue disc (to install in a virtual machine).

Now I just have to wait ’till my birthday.

]]> http://ewanm89.co.uk/2007/04/20/got-iso/feed/ 0 New Laptop http://ewanm89.co.uk/2007/04/17/new-laptop/ http://ewanm89.co.uk/2007/04/17/new-laptop/#comments Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:59:58 +0000 ewanm89 http://ewanm89.co.uk/?p=18 It’s my birthday pretty soon (18th) and so a laptop was ordered on sunday.

Check it out:
Laptop
Case

The chipset is fully supported by opensource drivers!

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