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Harmony 880 Remote – battery problems

I recently bought a Harmony 880 remote control. Harmony is a Canadian company recently bought by Logitech. I bought my remote from Dell for about CAD$190 delivered. It’s a great unit. There is one problem I had: battery charging. As long as the remote remained on the charging cradle, it would work. As soon as the remote was removed from the cradle, it stopped working. The problem was battery charging. The battery does

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Advocacy : give away your computer

Tonight I gave away a computer. It was the first computer onto which I installed FreeBSD. That computer was given to me by Jay. It was originally a 486 with 16MB of RAM. That computer started a whole lot of things back in 1998. I brought it from New Zealand back to Ottawa. When I gave it away, it was a Cyrix 686 with 64MB of RAM. I told the guy that the

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