Technical Articles by Myself
| FB Crypto Scam - Scammers faking the FB profile of the hard-working Vivek Gite of nixCraft fame | 1st Nov 2022 |
| NOW TV won't pause - anecdotal information about how I fixed the Pause feature on my NOW TV stick | 8th Nov 2021 |
| Drunk Explanation of TCP and HTTP - alternative answer to a tired interview question | 14th June 2020 |
| Coronavirus and Bluetooth - Suggestions for how contact tracing can be done without violating privacy or security | 1st May 2020 |
| Daily Fail - How to stop yourself accidentally clicking on a 'Daily Mail' article. | 30 August 2018 |
| Halt and Catch Fire - A rant about IP addresses and Domain Names used in broadcast TV programmes. | 07 March 2018 |
| Shellshock - A Worked Example | 26 Sep 2014 | Solaris pkgtrans | 20 Dec 2007 |
| Linux Encrypted Filesystems with LUKS | 20 Oct 2007 |
| Reverse Engineering the MS Publisher File Format | April-June 2007 |
| Solaris as a Virtual Machine under Windows | April 2007 |
| The futility of ID Cards | April 2007 |
| Password Advice and Password Generator | Jan 2007 |
| Gimp Transparency | Dec 2006 |
| WebHosting - Diary of a Website | May 2005 |
| Solaris Zones | 2005 |
| Solaris LiveUpgrade | 2005 |
| Ownership of Music | 2005 |
| Microsoft | 2005 |
| Lego - Lego: An Analogy of Free Software | 2001 |
| God - How can you take that seriously?! | 2000 |
Anecdotes
AnecdotesNot yet written up - Please do nudge me and remind me to write up some of the crazy things I've seen in my years in the IT industry.
I should probably start writing some of them down before I forget the details in my old age. Not least the £27m project which was scarpped after 9 months and replaced by an Excel spreadsheet on a headless PC shoved under somebody's desk for 90% of the planned functionality. Or the three-day-stint in a datacentre in East Anglia without seeing daylight. Or the cutting-edge 1Tb storage solution, taking up over 15 cubic metres, which took over an hour to boot back in the year 2000
Walks, Holidays, etc
Not technical articles, but writeups of walks, collections of photos, etc.
| The Three Peaks of Cheshire - A writeup of a walk in Cheshire, England. | 23 July 2017 |
| Photography - A page for my photography. | June 2019 |
| Loch Lomond - A holiday in Scotland, 2019. | June 2019 |
| Shutlingsloe - A walk up Shutlingsloe, July 2019. | 13 July 2019 |
Articles by Others
Telegraph claiming that "Britain is now an elite dictatorship where majority opinions are crushed" after 13 years of Tory rule, from the Telegraph
Nelson Pit Walks, from Cheshire East Council
Converting a UNIX .COM Site to Windows - Old Microsoft internal whitepaper. See also https://www.theregister.com/2002/11/21/ms_paper_touts_unix/
Linux Kernel Management Style - Good advice for all managers of technical teams.
Free Software, Free Society - Selected Essays of Richard M Stallman (PDF)
Open Sources - Voices from the Open Source software revolution
In the Beginning was the Command Line (Neal Stephenson)
