Our household has been using mobile internet (as in, it uses a GSM network to connect us rather than down conventional cables) for almost 5 years now. It works quite well however one of the major issues involves images. The telecom companies want to save on bandwidth, so they force all your connections through a proxy which in turn caches and compresses images. This ends up in your pages loading faster, but with images that look crap. Continue reading
Budget HTPC
About 6-8 months ago I decided i needed a media PC. I was very short on money (being unemployed) and so I didn’t have a lot to spend although it turned out that it really didn’t matter!
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Reformatted the blog etc
Just a quick one to say that I’ve trashed the last blog, it had never been updated and was covered in spam so it seemed a good move to start over. Although says it was posted on the 5th June, I actually only posted it on the 2nd December. It’s taken me a while to startup this stuff.