Eirgrid System Demand : ‘The system demand displayed here represents the electricity production required to meet [Irish] national electricity consumption, including system losses, but net of generators’ requirements. It includes power imported via the interconnector and an estimate of the power produced by wind generators, but excludes some non-centrally monitored generation (i.e. small scale CHP).’ via Juan Flynn
(tags: via:juanflynn eirgrid national-grid ireland power charts statistics)Dave Grady on “the conference call” : painfully accurate sketch about the crappy conference call UI. “hi, who just joined?”
(tags: hi-who-just-joined conference-calls phone funny ui dave-grady comedy sketches)
Month: August 2010
Life without a CA | The Tor Blog : do you trust the default set of root CAs in modern web browsers? sounds like we probably shouldn’t
(tags: ca certificates https encryption firefox ssl trust privacy web root-cas)Topfloor – Free Residential Lease/Letting Agreement Download : GFDL-licensed legal boilerplate agreement for the Irish market. Nice one — although did I see a commercial company charging for what appears to be a derivative work of this document? is that a breach of the license terms?
(tags: gfdl gnu topfloor letting leases legal documents ireland)
tcpcrypt : opportunistic encryption of TCP connections. not the simplest to set up, though
(tags: cryptography encryption tcp security internet tcpcrypt opportunistic)Inchicore family home ready for take-off : from the Irish Times property section: ‘There’s a guy in Inchicore with an aircraft simulator in his shed. Not one of those fancy computer games, this is the real thing – a decommissioned 747 simulator, cockpit and all.’ Unfortunately, the sim doesn’t come with the house
(tags: houses flight-simulators gaming inchicore dublin irish-times property)Fried Androids? :: The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It : scary stuff. East Texas patent-troll court has ruled that EchoStar must remotely disable customers’ DVRs due to patent infringement, which they are (thankfully) refusing to do and are now held in contempt for $200M — the blog suggests this could happen due to the Google-Oracle suit, to Android phones
(tags: google via:tieguy law east-texas dvr remote-disabling internet oracle swpats)
Introduction to parallel & distributed algorithms : really interesting parallel algorithm concepts. I’d seen parallel merge sort before from the map-reduce world, but some others are new to me and worth thinking about (via Hacker News)
(tags: via:hackernews algorithms distributed parallel map-reduce merge-sort sorting)image soak : an “endless page” of images culled from newsfeeds. Very good for video games and art, particularly. definitely a new addition to my daily list (via Andre)
(tags: via:torrez news images feed sources art)Mario Kart graffiti in Portland bike lanes : very funny. ‘Wait, does this mean that those cyclists that wiped out a few blocks back are going to catch up to me right before I get to my destination, even though I didn’t crash once?’ (commenter on Kotaku)
(tags: cycling portland videogames gaming mario-kart graffiti)
U2 Manager Blames ‘Free’ And Anonymous Internet Bloggers For Industry Troubles | Techdirt : great Mike Masnick post responding to the latest woe-is-me missive from U2’s asshat-in-residence Paul McGuinness (via Jim Carroll)
(tags: via:jimcarroll u2 mp3blogs paul-mcguinness mike-masnick techdirt music mp3 downloading filesharing piracy blogging)RTÉ News: CAO website blocked by malicious attack : is the CAO (Ireland’s Central Applications Office, for university admissions) being DDOS’d? sounds like it
(tags: cao ddos security ireland)
jwz – What different sorting algorithms sound like : in the style of BBC Radiophonics Workshop, with copious flange — my favourite is heap sort. this is brilliant (via jwz)
(tags: via:jwz sound music sorting algorithms)
Books of Adam : stories drawn by a guy I vaguely know online. really funny!
(tags: blog comic funny fp)100 ways to spend the Anglo €25,000,000,000 : ‘just how much is €25 billion that [Ireland’s taxpayers] have to borrow for [failed bank] Anglo?’ some great answers, including: start our own space program with 20 space shuttles; build 6 LHCs or 2 ITER fusion reactors; scrap fares on all public transport for 33 years; buy 2 of Asia’s largest banks; buy Steve Jobs himself; detach the People’s Republic of Cork by building a ten-metre-wide moat; buy every house and apartment listed on Daft.ie
(tags: money omgwtfbbq insane argh funny nama anglo sean-fitzpatrick ireland)
[osol-discuss] OpenSolaris cancelled, to be replaced with Solaris 11 Express : ‘Solaris is the #1 Enterprise Operating System. We have the leading share of business applications on Solaris today, including both SPARC and x64. We have more than twice the application base of AIX and HP-UX combined.’ Well, that about sums it up. Enterprisey!
(tags: enterprisey open-source closed-source oracle solaris opensolaris hp-ux history)
Why We Need To Abolish Software Patents : ‘Pam Samuelson, one of the co-authors of the report, says that her conclusion from the research is that the world may be better off without software patents; that the biggest beneficiaries of software patents are patent lawyers and patent trolls, not entrepreneurs.’ no shit, Sherlock
(tags: ip patents techcrunch startups swpats via:brian-caulfield software)Spam King Leo Kuvayev Jailed on Child Sex Charges — Krebs on Security : ‘A man known as one of the world’s top purveyors of junk e-mail has been imprisoned in Russia for allegedly molesting [more than *50*] underage girls from a Moscow orphanage, KrebsOnSecurity.com has learned.’ lovely
(tags: spam russia jail crime moscow leo-kuvayev)
La Brea Starter And Rustic Bread Recipe : another variation of the Nancy Silverton recipe, and a loaf recipe to go with it
(tags: recipes food bread baking sourdough la-brea-bakery)Nancy Silverton’s La Brea Bakery sourdough starter recipe : lots of recommendations, but looks like hard work; grown from natural grape yeast
(tags: sourdough starter la-brea-bakery baking food recipes)On The Record » Guest post – 500 Words of Summer – Mumblin’ Deaf Ro : Dublin-based musician Ronan Hession argues that the illegal-downloading bogeyman is vapour with a bunch of persuasive stats
(tags: mumblin-deaf-ro statistics music irma music-industry piracy filesharing)
Yakuza 3 reviewed by Yakuza : wow, fantastic review — real Japanese mobsters give their take on SEGA’s latest videogame
(tags: crime games japan videogames yakuza sega)Man Lives In Futuristic Sci-Fi World Where All His Interactions Take Place In Cyberspace | The Onion : ‘In the blink of an eye, this real-life Johnny Mnemonic keys in his encrypted, top-secret passcode and enters the fortified binary area from which all his personal communiqués are sent forth in a dizzying array of ones and zeroes.’ brilliant pisstake of mid-’90s tech journalism (via Walter Higgins)
(tags: the-onion funny future futurism humour internet sf via:walter journalism cyberpunk 1990s cyberspace)Irish Hackerspaces Week : hackerspaces in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick and Belfast, running events all next week (08-14 – 08-22)
(tags: hackerspace hacking ireland conferences events)
John Graham-Cumming: Shut up and ship : on “Haystack”, a vaporous censorship-evading product aimed at Iran’s internet surveillance, which as of yet is a site soliciting donations and a lot of press, and not a lot of techie details
(tags: haystack privacy censorship filtering surveillance jgc crypto open-source)
Cache on Delivery : Mind-boggling presentation; a load of sites are exposing memcacheds to the public internet, with no auth, and full of juicy data (samples included). iptables is hard
(tags: memcached security hacks exploits)Feds admit storing checkpoint body scan images : surprise! ‘The U.S. Marshals Service admitted this week that it had surreptitiously saved tens of thousands of images recorded with a millimeter wave system at the security checkpoint of a single Florida courthouse.’
(tags: airport dhs fail privacy security surveillance tsa big-brother x-ray)
Zed Shaw debunking some poll/epoll myths : “benchmarks disprove common wisdom” shocker
(tags: epoll io linux networking performance scalability mongrel2 zedshaw poll)
Why Jailbreak? – The Unofficial Apple Weblog : some good Cydia app tips. also glad to see piracy didn’t appear ’til page 3
(tags: cydia jailbreak iphone apps)
Kaprekar’s constant : ‘6174 .. is notable for the following property: Take any four-digit number, using at least two different digits. (Leading zeros are allowed.); Arrange the digits in ascending and then in descending order to get two four-digit numbers, adding leading zeros if necessary; Subtract the smaller number from the bigger number; Go back to step 2. The process will reach 6174 in at most 7 iterations’
(tags: 6174 constants cool maths mathematics numbers kaprekar wow)