Archive for the 'General' Category

Resources for learning Windows Powershell


August 7th, 2008

I am currently in the process of broadening my knowledge of Windows Powershell and I thought I’d post some of the excellent resources I’ve found. Many are available for free online, some you’ll have to shell out money for. The book, Windows Powershell in Action, is well worth buying if you want to gain an [...]

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Firefox 3 enhanced SSL certificate support


June 18th, 2008

Firefox now has full enhanced SSL certificate support at last with the arrival of version 3. Enhanced SSL certificates verify that a website is owned by whomever claims to own it. Very useful in the largely anonymous Internet.
Expand the image above to see what it looks like. In the secure part of a site, for [...]

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Odd insurance bar to dealing with USA


June 9th, 2008

Just rung up direct line for business to get a quote for our compulsory Employers’ Liability Insurance and was refused because we have dealings with companies in the USA! Weird…I’m really surprised because Direct Line is a pretty big insurer. I’d love to know what the problem is with having dealings with the USA?
Suffice it [...]

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Nagios conference in Germany


May 29th, 2008

Netways, our good friends in Germany, are running a Nagios conference in September. Looks like a great line up of speakers …
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Linux cluster in an IKEA filing cabinet


May 28th, 2008

This is the story of Helmer. A linux cluster in a IKEA Helmer cabinet.
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Programming dark hit of space


May 21st, 2008

[The title is a Human League song reference: The Black Hit of Space]
Apologies for the light posting regime at the moment. As ever programming sucks all of the time out of my day. There’s no middle ground with programming, no negotiation, you’re either not programming or you spend all of your time programming to the [...]

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Network Instruments in the blogoshere


May 15th, 2008

Brian Boyko over at Network Performance Daily mentioned in passing that Network Instruments now have a blog.
Well worth a read… oh, and Network Performance Daily is well worth a read too!
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I love the smell of green unit tests in the morning


May 9th, 2008

Well, technically it’s afternoon but the reference to Whoops Apocalypse wouldn’t have worked otherwise.

The tests for PowerTime have been green before, but the tests and therefore the functionality, have now progressed a lot further. There’s still plenty of way to go…but at least we’re getting closer. Things have progressed far enough to allow Dean [...]

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Whither Met Office openness update


May 6th, 2008

A couple of months ago or so I lamented the fact that the raw temperature data from the UK met office is not publicly available.
I’ve just received some further feedback from the Met Office.
I was partially wrong, there is a lot more information available than I thought. Here’s a quote with a list of resources:

There [...]

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If it works…


April 28th, 2008

…it’s not AI.
Funny.
Just ran across a great paper written by Eve Phillips documenting a history of artificial intelligence. Well worth a read. The title made me smile because my first job in IT was writing an expert system and it most certainly didn’t work. Must have been AI then.
The above paper [...]

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