Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
Way back in 2010 I wrote about my acquisition of a Zotac HD-ID11 ZBox "home theatre PC". Since then it has served me fairly well, although I suspect I ran it too hot for the last year or two. After several Ubuntu and XBMC upgrades I noticed that it tended to idle pretty hot despite not really doing much most of the time, and was able to ignore this until it started restarting itself frequently…