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Classing up the kitchen, part 1

Since my kitchen radio is older than I am and has various bits missing, I got myself one of these to mount under the cupboards to replace it. This should als...

The imminent demise of Sixxs?

As a long-term user of SixXS, I got an e-mail earlier this year about how I should stop using a tunnel for IPv6 connectivity and ask my ISP for IPv6. And the...

Raspberry Pi print & scan server

I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was (with a bit of Googling) to set up the Raspberry Pi 2 I'd had gathering dust on my desk as a print server. My i...

Digging up the road

Virgin Media's work in my street reminds me of the poor state of broadband in the UK A few weeks ago, I awoke to find my street being dug up by several pneum...

Cyprus

So I'm back from my holiday, not with much of a tan, but feeling suitably relaxed. Myself and a couple of friends went to Cyprus for five days and four night...

Contributing to POI

I was privileged to become a committer and PMC member of the Apache POI project earlier this year. And on Christmas eve, I managed the release of 3.14beta1. ...

Yubico Yubikey 4: PGP, U2F and other things

I recently bought myself a Yubikey 4, as previously mentioned. Here's what I've managed to do with it so far ... General observations Since this is very new ...