Coburn's online journal featuring thoughts, opinions of a programmer upside down in the Southern Hemisphere.
Microsoft doesn’t let you do this because their shitty Chromium-based browser is a “vital component of the operating system”, but with some brute force, Edge will be no more. And it actually works – this ain’t clickbait!
So… we’re back and here’s the results of the testing of the AliExpress Choice MicroSD Cards. These were XrayDisk-branded, which has been a good brand with some SSDs I got from them in the past. Surprisingly, they are genuine and unlike the fake 256GB/512GB KRY-branded MicroSDs some time ago, they actually have a good read…
These just arrived in my mailbox today. Are they legit, or are they fakes? Stay tuned for some tests…
It’s the holidays and I wake up one morning to find a client in distress because their laptop won’t boot up into Windows 10. While I explain to them that I’m not doing repairs on the holidays, I agree to check it out.
Originally from this HP forum thread, but I’m backing it up for a video in the coming few days. You can grab the file here: AMD ASD WB64A. Extract it somewhere on your computer. Right click on the “Unknown Device” entries on Device Manager, choose Properties, choose Update Driver… from the Driver tab, don’t let…
If you’ve seen my twitter from time to time or been lurking in my Discord or Twitch streams you’ll know that I am a big enthusiast of using Linux KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) magic to run a Windows virtual machine on top of my distro of choice, Arch Linux. In doing so, this allows me…
Just an update to say yes, I’m still here and that I’m currently working on a tool that helps defend your Windows 10-based device against the horrid mess that is Windows 11. Don’t get me wrong, I understand that eventually Windows 10 will be obsoleted as with any other operating system over time but from…
Telephone companies hate him! Find out how one Aussie makes his own ISP with some weird shit and magic! Thanks to a Cisco SPA112 being the real MVP in creating your own home-grown dial-up ISP, I have successfully managed to get a Pentium II with MMX machine online in 2022 using a 24Kbps connection via…
From time to time when I’ve completed client call-outs I end up with old equipment that I’ll either send to eWaste (which is a electronics recycling service) or I may refurbish the device in question and later use it for my own purposes or sell on eBay, Facebook Marketplace, et al. So it just so…
In a little experiment involving a potentially dangerous BIOS flashing operation, I grabbed a copy of the latest version of the Supermicro X10SLQ-L Motherboard BIOS and flashed it to my unlocked Taito TypeX4 unit. Things happened. Flash goes the BIOS… After creating a BIOS update USB by using the wonderful Rufus formatting utility and then…