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One of our office printers decided to die the other day, a Brother multi-function laser printer, which I recall took quite a lot of messing around to get it printing from Ubuntu and once it was set-up it always took a while to send pages to the printer. Sometimes, it printed just a bunch of [...]

Although I hardly use my SD-1, due to my GT-8 having all of the overdrive settings I could possibly want, it was still annoying me that I had a faulty pedal sitting on my shelf. The problem I was experiencing was that the SD-1 was constantly stuck in its on position – Stomping on it [...]

My media server was getting to the stage where it required some extra discs, so I purchased another pair of 500GB SATA disks and a SiI-3114 based PCI to 4-port SATA controller card to hook them up to as I was out of spare SATA ports.
Upon booting there was no sign of the cards BIOS [...]

So I accidentally spilled a cup of tea over my Blackberry. Fortunately, after drying it off most of it worked perfectly bar one of the most important components in a mobile phone – The microphone.
After doing a little research, it turns out that the mic is surface mounted to the keyboard PCB so to replace [...]

Since I first bought my Logitech MX5000 combo it has never worked correctly on Ubuntu (back to 6.06 maybe…) after booting. The keyboard would work perfectly in the BIOS and even in GRUB, but as soon as I reached the (GUI) log-in screen my MX5000 would become unresponsive until I disconnected the USB Bluetooth receiver [...]

I’ve had my MPC 500 for a couple of weeks and in my limited experience using it, I appear to be having an issue. I’m not sure if it’s a setting that needs changing, if the 500 is faulty, my limited RAM (I have 128MB on order) or if it’s purely a [...]

Dension, the guys that released the Gateway 500 interface that allows one to listen to their iPod (or other source) through the OEM head unit have now brought out an accessory, that when hooked up inline between the iPod and Gateway 500 gives Bluetooth functionality. The BTA1000 supports both A2DP/AVRCP and HSP profiles which are [...]

I was looking at adding some extra functionality to a couple of bits in my guitar set-up, in my case this involved buying some footswitches – One for my Vox AD30VT amplifier, and one for my Boss RC-2 Loop Station. Vox offer the VFS-2 and Boss has the FS-6 for a combined cost of around [...]

After looking at my usage logs, I have noticed quite a number of people have found this website after searching Google for the Gateway 500 firmware. So to help you all out, here are all of the versions released so far:
GW5_MOST_100.ZIP
GW5_MOST_104.ZIP
GW5_MOST_105.ZIP
GW5_MOST_202.ZIP
GW5_MOST_203.ZIP
GW5_MOST_205.ZIP
The above firmwares are for the MOST based version of the Gateway 500, i.e. Porsche, [...]

What with Porsche not installing iPod support from the factory, and the fact that their stereo systems are all run through a fiber-optic system known as the MOST bus, a company called Dension have released an interface that sits between the iPod and the MOST bus – The Dension Gateway 500.
I purchased two of the [...]