Category: Rants

I had the unfortunate thing happen to my dell tablet computer – a windows “feature update” totally bricked it with a BSOD during install resulting in the tablet stuck on a screen saying windows encountered an unknown problem during installation or something like that. The only thing I could do was click OK which rebooted […]

Around 12 years ago I had four Atari Portfolio palmtop computers complete with boxes, manuals and a ton of memory cards plus many accessories. For some really stupid reason I decided that they were a pieces of crap and chucked them (I faintly remember trying to sell them on ebay without success) but not before […]

30 years ago… Yes. Now not so much. Take for example a repair of a Panasonic DMR-BWT720 blu-ray recorder which I was handed for free as it had failed and had been replaced with a newer model. The fault – freezes / runs slow and fails to record sometimes. If it does record the image […]