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The Mine! Project – Google Tech Talk Videos #themineproject #vrm
The presentations that Adriana and I did for The Mine! Project’s Google Tech Talk at the Google Campus earlier this year are now posted on the blog; I apologise that the audio on the first video is not original and had to be re-recorded, this was due to hardware issues* on the day. In the…
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New Book: The New School of Information Security
Another book arrived for the input stack this morning: “The New School of Information Security” by Adam Shostack (hi, Adam) and Andy Stewart. First impressions: for the price I paid, I was thinking it would be somewhat larger – sort of “Security Engineering, Second Edition”-size. Instead it’s closer to a “this slim volume…” size. It…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-07-02
wisley royal horticultural society # history of abermud: http://bit.ly/19jNGw # prrrt?! http://www.flickr.com/photos/keet0m/3215137675/ #
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Radio revolution will leave listeners in silence
The Times overcooks the eco-argument slightly – the growth in datacentres is inevitable as work expand to fit the computation power available – but there is an undeniable fact in the power tradeoffs at the consumer end: I have a small transistor radio in the bathroom (no mains power in the bathroom) and it consumes…
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step 1 towards more blogging
Spend an hour sorting out all your blog-posting bookmarks into a single bookmark-toolbar folder, so with one click you are set up to post everywhere.
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Kid Swaps iPod For Sony Walkman, Gets A Culture Shock
Kid Swaps iPod For Sony Walkman, Gets A Culture Shock Must read, Will Laugh. Best quote: It took me three days to figure out that there was another side to the tape. That was not the only naive mistake that I made; I mistook the metal/normal switch on the Walkman for a genre-specific equaliser, but…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-06-27
Michael Jackson broke Google http://is.gd/1ectj # @adriana872 spotted that the BBC has adopted the FAIL! meme in a heading; needs caps, exclamation mark. http://is.gd/1ectj # Have ordered T-Mobile G1 on a discounted Combi35 deal – 800 mins, free internet, free sms, free phone, 30 quid per month. # unfollowing @1938media because am fed up with…
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Preserve history of British computing at Wikipedia: GEC OS4000
Wikipedia is wonderful, but gosh they can be arses in a “Water is wet [citation needed]” sort of way. Andrew Gabriel writes: I have put quite a lot of info about OS4000 and the GEC 4000 series onto Wikipedia recently, which you might find interesting, or even want to add to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEC_4000_series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS4000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEC_Computers The…
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My first OS4000 login in 20 years (approx)
This should freak out a few friends. 🙂 OS4000 Rel 6.5 A036 on A7 WED 24 JUN 2009 08:05:53 Logging in user ALEC password ID last used WED 24 JUN 2009 07:56:36 STARTED – WED 24 JUN 2009 08:06:02 OS4000 Rel 6.5 A036 on A7 WED 24 JUN 2009 08:06:02 error 10 unknown command: USER.INITJCL…
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Twitter Updates for 2009-06-24
Dropsafe: Something must have burped with my #WordPress, had to re-approve 3 comments. http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/article/3194 # @jackiedanicki would you be drinking it anyway, even without the protolurgy? in reply to jackiedanicki # @lskrocki next, will needs a real vacuum. in reply to lskrocki # “deep packet inspection” becomes meaningless bogeyman, declare it unamerican, in need of…