All thriller – no filler
Having searched for webcam drivers for the Sony CMR-PC2 without success, I finally found the original CD. Here are the drivers. As even the Sony Europe website does not provide these drivers, only the manual, I am proving a link to download the drivers for Sony CMR-PC2.
Download Drivers-Sony-CMR-PC2.zip (13MB)
I have no idea if these drivers also work for the CMR-PC3 or similar, perhaps you can let me know in the comments.
Alan gave me a nifty little submarine engine and it turned my thoughts to a summer project. I’m looking again at the home 3D printer.
There are now a few competing/complimentary home 3D printers around, these include Fab@Home, The RepRap, and hobby CNC
If anyone has any recommendations, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Reprap was the one i’d heard of a few years ago, but Fab@Home looks quite sophisticated.
I think the only criteria I have is that it must fit in my shed 🙂
My sister is becoming a farmer – a goat farmer to be precise. she and Ian now have approx 50 female and 1 billy goats on rented land near their place in Bradford upon Avon. The plan is to increase the herd (billy has been busy) and buy some farmland to establish themselves. After that it’s on to Smoothie production…
As you can see from the photo the goats were happily penned in, but my childhood experience reminds me that for goats the grass is always greener the other side of the fence, and they’ll do just about anything to get there.
Good luck Sarah, hope you don’t mind getting out of bed in the middle of the night to recapture your straying herd 🙂
I do like to see the shopping ordered nicely at the checkout. Here are my top tips
The Wandsworth Green Business Awards were held yesterday at the Pestana Chelsea Bridge Hotel. Unfortunately we didn’t win this time for our green server hosting, but it was a popular event. I’d say around 250 people attended and it was very well organised.
The winners included Hakan from Linebyte, an IT company. Hakan was demoing a nifty little micro-computer (pictured) for which he’s been rewriting the linux kernel, drivers and all sorts. Unlike the VIA/Atom boards, everything on this board is low power and ultra small. Power consumption for the whole unit is just 2W. Power is from USB. All it needs now is an application or two…Any suggestions, please comment below!
Another worthy entrant was Technology Solutions, who are bravely punting Linux based desktops for small businesses. All application software is Open Source based so no licence fees.
When I’m in Exeter, I always listen to Sportsbeat on Exeter 107.3fm.
Is this the ultimate green 2×4 land rover?
if you’re using Evolution on a small pc like a notebook, you might find that the preview email pane has very little space to display the message because the message headers take up too much space.
To reduce or hide the headers shown in the Evolution Preview Pane, you can go:
Edit – Preferences – Mail Preferences – Headers
Untick the headers you don’t want to see in Displayed Message Headers
The changes apply to both the preview page and when you open a message seperately.
Recently I’ve been playing with a mapping app on the iPhone called Waze. This allows you to do free turn by turn routing on a smartphone (at time of writing Android and iPhone’s supported), with the added bonus of up to date traffic reporting by fellow users of the service.
Waze started in Israel, and they’ve pretty much got the whole country mapped now. The UK however is sparse – most roads are not mapped yet, but this is the bit I’m enjoying most. When you drive down a road that’s not on Waze, you actually create it. The phone uploads the GPS data to the web, and you go along later and add the street name.
This bit feels like SimCity – creating your own roads! However it does feel like wasted effort, as a project called OpenStreetMap has already created free maps of the entire UK, which Waze or other projects like it could be using. Waze are taking a bit of a gamble on UK users wanting to create a map of the UK before the routing and traffic functions will start to take off. Smartphone Apps that use OpenStreetMap are plentiful – but I’ve yet to find a free one for the iPhone.
For SimCity fans it’s great though – you find yourself deliberately taking new routes to and from work just to add new roads to the map.
Learning Ladders operates from the old Battersea Children’s Home situated on the Doddington Estate in the London borough of Wandsworth. The group operate presently from three main rooms on the ground floor and use a separate dining area. They also use a soft play room on the first floor. All children have access to secure enclosed outdoor play areas.
In the November 2009 Ofsted Inspection report, the Childrens Centre was rated GOOD in all areas. A full copy of the Ofsted report is available online.
The staff work exceptionally well as a team to support the children and make sure everyone enjoys their time in the nursery