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...
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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...
Are EU ready for this? I’m not. Or perhaps I am…
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Raspberry Pi print & scan server
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Cyprus
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E-mail for the last three days - my part in its downfall
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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
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Making the Yubikey 4 talk to GPG on Debian Jessie
I've just bought myself a Yubikey 4 to experiment with. The U2F and OTP features are of some interest, but the main thing I bought it for was PGP via GnuPG. ...