Recent content by Heath

Quacks of Quedlinburg is good fun and fairly light as games go. Takes about 30-40 minutes to play.

Wouldn't it make more sense to install a 'dark mode' or 'night mode' browser plugin so it works for all websites, rather than do it on specific sites?

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About 25% of our students use Macs, but not for any course related reason. Most believe them to be more reliable / better built than Windows laptops, but they tend to compare their Mac to a £300 budget windows laptop when making that call. The best thing about Apple laptops is the battery life -...

It's been released - had one here for about a month. Mine came with a free Lego Mustang keyring and a 'My other car is a Mustang' bumper sticker. Silly price on Amazon is because it's temporarily out of stock on the Lego website. Not sure who would pay nearly double the price rather than wait a...

Skovby do some nice AV/Hi-Fi furniture. I have a #772 hIding a big Yamaha AV amp, blueray player, Apple TV, network switch and a few other bits. I cut an extra hole in backboard to improve ventilation because the AV amp can get a bit warm, but it's well made, looks good, hides all the clutter...

The OLD command will sometimes restore programs after hitting the BREAK key. We used to assign OLD and RUN commands to the BREAK key if we didn't want people killing an application.

You can buy recessed in-ceiling projector screens off the shelf - should be a doddle to fit compared to what you're proposing to do with the TV.

I had one of the first batch of BBCs. It had the 0.1 OS, which didn't have the ability to access most of the I/O ports. Cost £10 to get the 1.0 OS chip IIRC, which I always thought should have been a free upgrade since the computer was basically broken without it. Added sideways RAM and the DFS...

It really doesn't. It shows that SQLite running on a high spec Win10 laptop can pull in cached info 5x faster than the PC can read it from disk, and SQLite running on a low spec Win7 laptop can pull in cached info 2.5x faster than the PC can do it. It doesn't compare the file I/O speeds of the...

Sounds like a collaborative game like Pandemic, Forbidden Desert, etc could be the way to go. You're then competing against the game, not the other players - you either all win or all lose. There are lots out there. I'm eagerly waiting for my copy of Nemesis - it was a Kickstarter that is...

If you want to see the real dark side of your GF, give Magic Maze a go. I'm not sure I'd recommend Arkham Horror to someone new to modern board games - it's a good game, but not the easiest to get your head around, especially if you're not familiar with the Lovecraft mythos. I'd recommend...

Too right - it's always best to have one that works

AL Rollers in Wigan make the brass biscuit cutting rollers for McVities now - it's a one man operation, but very impressive.