Category: Computing Blog

  • CDTV 3FFF Problem – Diagnosis & Repair

    Diagnosis and Repair of a Commodore CDTV unit which has a strange ‘3FFF’ problem. In the first part, below, I diagnose.  In the next part (coming soon, will be added here) I repair. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtxYHoK8vFg

  • Recover Data From Unfinalized DVD RW

    Introduction Sometimes you’ll end up having to deal with a DVD which has video recorded on it but the author neglected to finalize the disc. This can be a bit troublesome, because until the disc is finalized it doesn’t contain the necessary data to make it compatible with the DVD standard. Most consumer DVD players […]

  • rarcrack review

    rarcrack I stumbled across a little program called rarcrack yesterday, which provides brute-force cracking of password protected archives.  I decided to give it a try and make some general observations about it. An example To set up an example, I created a .rar with a 5 character password.  The password consists of upper-case letters, lower-case […]

  • Adding USB devices in a Virtual Machine

    Adding USB Devices in a Windows Virtual Machine with VirtualBox One of the most confusing things for me when I first experimented with VirtualBox was the question of how to add USB devices.  I run Linux (Ubuntu) as my main OS now, but sometimes I need to dig around in Windows (e.g. work related stuff) […]

  • Amiga 500 eaten alive!

    I’m having some fun messing around with a few of my old retro computers at the moment and, inspired by EEV Blog’s recent teardown and successful boot of a 25 year old Amiga 500 I decided to get my old girl down from the attic and give her a go. Unfortunately my attempts were rather […]