There comes a time in the life of any old PC when you have to make that hard decision; turf it or turbo it! This old Brio BA600 had served well with its PII-600 cpu, 256MB ram and 4.2GB drive but alas both times and demands have changed. I chose upgrade! New motherboard – Gigabyte … Read more
Welcome to the world of TomTom Plug-ins. Be prepared to make, break, fix and play with your TomTom if you venture down this route. The destination? Well that’s up to you. Let’s just say that looking at a skewed raster image on my screen is not a welcoming sight and that tiny little hole at … Read more
The Deskpro series were very well-built, quiet and reliable PCs and they suit the task of a dedicated SOHO server extremely well. Using the default BIOS configuration they however complain bitterly about not having keyboard plugged in. It is most amusing being first told there is no keyboard and then being asked to press ‘F1’ … Read more