12 August 2015
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I think I’m due another geek post. I haven’t indulged in one for a while and I want to press home what I learned today. The challenge was to get an application running on a Windows box talking to a … Continue reading
25 May 2015
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For the assignment I am currently finishing off for the Open University module I am studying at the moment, on digital forensics, I needed to do some contemporaneous note taking. It sounds fancy but it just means notes written around … Continue reading
14 November 2014
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Today I’ve mainly been getting ready for tonight’s String Project gig. Well, that and chopping and sawing more firewood to take advantage of the clear blue skies that came after the morning deluge. Getting ready for the gig involves practising … Continue reading
25 September 2014
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Oh dear; today’s tech news reveals another exploit affecting widely used Open Source software. In this case it is the shellshock bug that has been part of the bash shell for a long period of time. How easy is it … Continue reading
7 June 2014
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I like the Ubuntu idea of long-term support editions – reasonably up to date, maintained with security patches but not shifting the foundations too often. The most recent one (Ubuntu 14.04) came out in April and there has been enough … Continue reading
11 December 2013
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When my head was muzzy the other day, I managed to drop a paperclip on my extension keyboard and then work it underneath the keys as I was trying to hook it out. Sliding it to one end and popping … Continue reading
22 November 2013
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Jane and I recently swapped printers but the HP multifunction printer I now have attached to my computer didn’t install properly and my attempts to load the driver from the HP website have been thwarted by some kind of group … Continue reading
15 November 2013
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One of the features of Unix type systems that makes that relatively secure is permissions – for every file, you link it to a user and a group and define what the user can do with it, what other members … Continue reading
12 November 2013
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Being able to undo a mistake is one of the features that can greatly improve a computer interface and even better when it can let you travel an arbitrary number of steps back in time. Today I have been brushing … Continue reading
17 October 2013
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It was probably a decade or more ago that the big debate among penguinistas (Linux aficionados) was “is Linux ready for the desktop?” I think the answer is, and has been for some time, a decided yes. My main machine … Continue reading