I recently bought a new laptop, a Lenovo E14, which I was delighted with, except that periodically the screen would flash severely. The solution was obvious – it was clearly a driver problem, so I installed all the latest drivers – but the problem

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As I’ve mentioned in a previous blog article, I have started using a brilliant Raspberry Pi-based music player called RuneAudio (which uses Music Player Daemon – MPD – at its heart). I have this connected to a home cinema system,

Recent Linux kernels include support for infrared remote controls and so the requirement for LIRC (Linux Infrared Remote Control) has been diminishing, but nevertheless some systems still use it. I was doing some work with LIRC recently and I couldn’t find a configuration file for

A while ago I released an updated version of my Sudoku Solver iOS app. As well as solving regular Sudoku puzzles it can Sudoku puzzles ‘with a twist’ (where there is a ‘twist’ of nine shaded squares which must also contain the numbers one to

Introduction
I recently set up a Raspberry Pi-based music player based on Rune Audio. At its core it uses Music Player Daemon (MPD) – but I found that MPD wouldn’t read the ID3 tags on a lot of my music tracks. After some investigation I

I have recently had some fun setting up a Raspberry Pi-based music player – in fact it took me longer than I was expecting: it took a while to find a music player that I was happy with, and I also found that the tags

I had been running VMware Workstation version 14.1.7 on my Windows 10 laptop quite happily, until after a recent Windows update when I attempted to run a guest virtual machine I got an error ‘VMware Workstation cannot connect to the virtual machine. Make sure you

I recently succeeded in putting my Sudoku Solver iPhone app on the Apple App Store, so if anyone’s interested you can find it just by searching for ‘Vaughan Harper’ in the App Store app on an iPhone. It does include the capability to solve Sudoku

I’m sure we’ve all heard that Bill Burr, the man who wrote the book on password management while working at NIST, has changed his mind about the password guidelines that he devised. “Much of what I did I now regret,” Burr, who is now retired,

Earlier this year I bought a 2016 Audi A3. With any new car one of my top priorities is being able to play music: the car has two SD card sockets so I dutifully copied all of my music collection to a 64 GB SD card