Technical Articles by Myself
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 |
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
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)
Articles