Posted on Thu 12 June 2008 in geek
Wow flash memory is getting cheap. I decided that my current 512mb key fob was starting to show it's limitations so picked up a shiny new 8gb one from World of Computers which I cycle past on the way into work. I'm sure I could find it cheaper than the …
Posted on Mon 09 June 2008 in geek • Tagged with bandwidth, mobile, t-mobile
I had suspected it for a while but I've just confirmed it. T-Mobile is altering my web-pages. I suspect in this case it's nothing overly sinister like Phorm but it is still un-announced tampering with web-pages I request from 3rd party servers.
Transparent proxies have existed almost as long as …
Posted on Tue 03 June 2008 in geek • Tagged with iplayer, mobile, t-mobile
Since the move down we have been without broadband. In fact without a fixed line we are subject to the whims of the mobile phone networks. Hopefully (landlords assent and trees permitting) I'll be able to get super-fast broadband through my works test network in Cambridge. However we have managed …
I have learnt to love the command line. GUI's may make things easy to find but they suck at expressing complex things efficiently (e.g. "show me every file that I've changed in the last hour and it less the 100kb"). So this cool CLI interface to Google caught my …
Posted on Fri 16 May 2008 in geek
The ructions of the recent Debian OpenSSH/SSL failure are likely to be with us for some time. It's probably one of the most serious security failures in Debian's history. I'm still waiting for Bruce Schneir's reaction, I'll assume there will be one.
There have been security problems with OpenSSH …