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Watching The National Grid for Geeks
So this is what the country’s power usage looked like over the past 7 days: …and this is what it looked like for the past 24 hours: …and this is what the deviations from the 50Hz median frequency looked like: …all of which are available from the National Grid Realtime website; of the
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Dear LazyWeb: HELP, is anyone doing *real* high-availability enterprise architecture for Jive 6.0 please? #jive #jivesoftware #gartner
Hey all, Ceci n’est pas une enterprise architecture: …it is neither layer2 not layer3; possibly it is a layer7 diagram breaking down an architecture into hypothetical components but it then seems to take great liberties in connecting “Nodes” (centre) straight into databases (bottom right) without any intervening server. It is certainly not n-tier. I am
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School Buses of the World
USA: The primary vehicle used for student transport in North America, school buses are distinguished from other types of buses by design characteristics necessitated by federal and state/provincial regulations. Federal safety standards require school buses to be painted school bus yellow and equipped with specific warning and safety devices. This service is almost always provided
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I’m generally not one for spectator sports – football, cricket, gymnastics – but this is impressive…
…and it’s pole dancing, which – watching this – I put in the same category as gymnastics. If you have one: wipe that smirk off your face, You will, too. I can’t embed the video in my blog without using an FB login – and I’m not going to do that until I look into
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So, in summary, the ‘mint a trillion dollar coin’ idea failed to gain enough currency?
Puns aside: Heart Ache – Treasury nixes trillion dollar coin « Hot Air. …and in the morning it had turned to worthless dross.
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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