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by cpswan 14y ago
The DWP aren't alone in this pointless waste of IPs - it's just the scale of their squandering that's worse than usual. I know of many companies doing the same with (multiple) class B ranges. Far too much of the IPv4 space is dark for this
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Raspberry Pi Remote Control Music Player(designspark.com)
1 points by cpswan 14y ago|0 comments
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MAME on Raspberry Pi(designspark.com)
2 points by cpswan 14y ago|0 comments
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by cpswan 14y ago
Customs don't normally call the special branch, and whilst being detained for hours is now normal practice in the US it's still (thankfully) pretty unusual in the UK.
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by cpswan 14y ago
Here's what happens next: 1. Drones become more and more popular as kids/hackers toys 2. Eventually a drone is used in a real terrorist plot 3. Our politicians over react and ban drones 4. We all write tweets and blogs about what clueless m
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by cpswan 14y ago
It's crazy how the whole movie plot driven security industry has been able to associate naked electronics with bomb making. A friend was commenting last night that the bare PCB of the Raspberry Pi could be seen as dangerous/threatening, and
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by cpswan 14y ago
I'm now feeling lucky that the OSHUG meeting last night, where the topic was drones, didn't get raided - http://oshug.org/event/20
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ESR - The smartphone wars: Inauspicious exits and debuts(esr.ibiblio.org)
6 points by cpswan 14y ago|0 comments
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Azure account disabled 2.5 days into 90 day free trial(blog.thestateofme.com)
2 points by cpswan 14y ago|0 comments
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by cpswan 15y ago
The industry has been working on software SIMs for some time. I had a telco talking to me about the initiative years ago. The problem is that the soft SIM provisioning process will become like DRM for phones. The users desires and the servi
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Lessons to be learned from the Linode Bitcoin incident(blog.thestateofme.com)
2 points by cpswan 15y ago|2 comments
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by cpswan 15y ago
It's funny that some of the areas that he touches on are also things where Windows requires local admin. Clearly a messed up privileged action model seems to be common across OSes.
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Building security in – the audit paradox(blog.thestateofme.com)
1 points by cpswan 15y ago|0 comments
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by cpswan 15y ago
It would be nice if the inspired by line actually linked to the essay.
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People Make Poor Monitors for Computers(macroresilience.com)
4 points by cpswan 15y ago|0 comments
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Building a better Anonymous(blog.cognitivedissidents.com)
1 points by cpswan 15y ago|0 comments
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Raspberry Pi layout(raspberrypi.org)
57 points by cpswan 15y ago|25 comments
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Why Raspberry Pi is going to be huge(blog.thestateofme.com)
2 points by cpswan 15y ago|0 comments
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by cpswan 15y ago
a shame that there doesn't seem to be an easy way to subscribe for future parts
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AMQP vs OpenMAMA – a contrived conflict(blog.thestateofme.com)
1 points by cpswan 15y ago|0 comments
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One weekend, four upgrades(blog.thestateofme.com)
2 points by cpswan 15y ago|0 comments
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Stop the regulatory theatre, and let startups disrupt financial services(parkparadigm.com)
2 points by cpswan 15y ago|0 comments
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by cpswan 15y ago
I've found the TI MSP-430 fairly good as a cheaper/rawer alternative to Arduino. It comes with Eclipse based tooling to program the microcontrollers in C or assembly.
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Network config for Linux VMs on a laptop(blog.thestateofme.com)
1 points by cpswan 15y ago|0 comments
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NoSQL as a governance arbitrage(blog.thestateofme.com)
9 points by cpswan 15y ago|1 comments
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Why install time permissions suck(almaer.com)
2 points by cpswan 15y ago|0 comments
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by cpswan 15y ago
I've often wondered about the sucky pay issue - particularly for those working in London. I can only hope/guess that there are some benefits like subsidised housing that make these roles tenable.
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by cpswan 15y ago
Indeed. Perhaps I have been unlucky, but of 5 SSDs that I've ever touched 2 have had catastrophic controller failures.
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Complexity, Outliers and the Truth on IT Project Failure(h30565.www3.hp.com)
1 points by cpswan 15y ago|0 comments
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by cpswan 15y ago
Let's not forget the education angle here. Most quants these days come through similar sausage machines, and C++ is de rigueur.

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