Some months back, I picked up a 1GB DIMM at a computer fair. It was cheap, which was about the only thing going for it, but I thought I’d take a chance on it. When I got home I plugged it into my PC, and it all started going horribly wrong. Needless to say, a few minutes later I was running memtest+ and finding millions of errors.
There are so many popular web applications around nowadays. Blogs, CMSs, Forums, Webmail, Site Administration, Project Management, Wikis, and many more. Yet I’m shocked at the lack of understanding of web security even among the authors of some of the most widely deployed applications.
I decided to have a play around with digital hardware. Having been exposed to some verilog at work, and seen that FPGA development boards have become quite affordable, I thought I’d have a go.
I did some rearranging of the network infrastructure in my house recently. The main aim was to move anything that made noise 24/7 into a cupboard out of the way. The downside is that it left the printer and a bunch of USB serial ports without anything to plug into.
The solution? A Linksys NSLU2 running NetBSD.
For various reasons, I had ended up with a bunch of monotone databases copied all over the place. Clearly this was unsustainable, and I’d always planned that if I got to that point, I’d set up a single central database for all my projects in a place where I could easily sync with it regardless of where I was working.
For a week covering the new year’s celebrations at the start of this year, I ran a lightshow for the IS, which is a pretty cool event for young speakers of Esperanto. It’s the second such event for which I’ve provided lighting, and I was keen to learn some lessons from the first time round.