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Author: Rick Hurst
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You can take a man out of a camper van but…
It’s sad I know, but while visiting the warehouse where Rocky is laid up for a while, I got nostalgic for my second home, and spent…
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Microcampers, teardrop trailers and compact caravans.
Our VW camper is already pretty small, but will sleep four adults, and will fit in a regular parking space, but it is (for us) a…
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Olivewood developments – Chil-LED Cold Storage Area Light
I co-founded Olivewood Technology back in May 2007, when I decided to make the jump to freelancing. I had been developing an EDI web app for…
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Upgrading to OSX Mavericks
I’m a late adopter, but I finally took the plunge and upgraded to OSX Mavericks tonight. A few gotchas:-
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Cool runnings – France 2014
There’s a saying that people use after a successful trip in an old vehicle, something like: “I just did a 1000 mile trip and it didn’t…
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New versus vintage Dilemma
I’ve recently started to wonder whether I might be better off aiming to get a more modern van and do a self-build camper conversion. I’ve even…
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Surviving a rainy campervan trip
I’m sat writing this in deepest Norfolk, using the passenger swivel seat as my office chair, while on the other side of the curtain (seperating the…
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VW T25 1Z Tdi conversion
Those of you who have been following along will know that last year, Rocky’s original 1.6 CS diesel was replaced with a 1.9 1Y engine from…
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The Camputer Part 3 – API hacking
In part 2 I got RasbBMC installed, and worked out how to get vnc server running. The next goal was to get to know how the…
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The Camputer Part 2 – raspBMC installation
(See Part 1 for details on what the project is about and the kit bought for it so far). I decided to go with RaspBMC as…
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Raspberry Pi project – the Camputer (Part 1)
I’m building an in-vehicle computer for my camper van. I wasn’t sure whether to blog about this here or on my Camper van blog, but as…
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Search and replace on a large file on OSX using Sed
My code editor of choice, Sublime text 2, crashes when you try to do a search and replace on a large file. This makes it difficult…