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Raspberry Pi sales surpass one million units | BGR # What do they mean, “minicomputer” ???
The numbers are in and the $35 Raspberry Pi Linux PC is a success. After pre-orders sold out in less than 24 hours, the credit card-sized computer faced a number manufacturing hiccups and distribution problems. In April, the first batch of Raspberry Pis finally arrived at distributors and begun to ship worldwide. The company announced this week that one of its…
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Skodas, Car Batteries, Sleet and Hot Chocolate
My Skoda Octavia has been bombproof for over 10 years – with the exception of being hit by third parties the only issues have been with door-windows dropping out of their raising-mechanism seats. However a fault with the central locking this week drained the battery – or so I thought. This morning a neighbour and…
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Metasploit: Serialization Mischief in Ruby Land… # sploitz on railz, oh my… #security #rails /ht @hdmoore
This afternoon a particularly scary advisory was posted to the Ruby on Rails (RoR) security discussion list. The summary is that the XML processor in RoR can be tricked into decoding the request as a YAML document or as a Ruby Symbol, both of which can expose the application to remote code execution or SQL…
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British Frame Manufacturers – London Fixed-Gear and Single-Speed Community
…a list of British frame builders… British frame manufacturers – London Fixed-gear and Single-speed Mmm…
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Russia has Siberia. Apparently England has “The West Country”. /ht @julianhuppert
David Anderson QC, the Government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said Magag would have found it easier to slip away from his watchers once back in the capital. Writing on Twitter, he asked: “Could he have absconded so easily from the West Country, where he was made to live when under a control order between…
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I wondered about buying a Garmin Cycling GPS – and then I thought: Why bother? /cc @dcuthbert
There’s this Garmin video that Dan Cuthbert pointed me at, earlier: …and it’s timely because January sales are still on, and only yesterday I was perusing ChainReaction and ordering bits and bobs. I’d been out on the MTB for an hour or so, exploring the heathland around Blackbushe Airport. I had my Nexus 7 in…
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The Daily Mash on EU Cookies Directive Popups – /ht @dml /cc @openrightsgroup #funny
They nailed it. Click: Shamelessly stolen from Dominique
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Samsung Galaxy S3 ‘sudden death’ security flaw fixed in UK | CNET UK
Samsung is beginning to roll out a security patch to UK Galaxy S3 phones, designed to clear up a bug in the S3’s Exynos chip that could potentially see some phones being wiped or bricked by naughty hackers. The sudden death bug, as it’s known, was found by an XDA Developers user and gives hackers…
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Why I believe that we will have to break up Nominet, the UK domain’s registry
A few months ago I wrote about this (PDF) at ComputerWorld: Nominet: a website, by any other name, would be more secure? So Nominet – the people who own, manage and monetise the top-level .uk DNS domain – propose to allow creation of domain names directly under the UK suffix (PDF). Thus instead of inflatable-widgets.co.uk…
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Censorship Chic /ht @openrightsgroup @privacyint
New Privacy International logo: New editions of George Orwell: …gosh you’d think people had reason to fear the government.