Category Archives: Work

Number patterns

I was driving home from work during the week and I noticed the number pattern on the speedometer.  The temperature being 10 degrees was a bit of luck.

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World IPv6 Day

In “Celebration” of World IPv6 Day, David suggested that we try a “Crazy Ping”, showing how easy it is to get IPv6 running, even on the most oddball networks.  For the heck of it, I configured up this evening the … Continue reading

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Ericsson Mobile Application Awards

Congrats to Robert Mullins and his team on getting 1st place and winning the Ericsson Mobile Application Awards 2010.

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“Gorilla” Update

I’ve not been in the shack all that much recently (being part of the organising team the the Irish IPv6 Summit kept me busy) so I have not been doing much checking up on the PV installation and how it … Continue reading

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Irish IPv6 Summit

Its taking up quite a bit of my time at the moment, and rapidly approaching (19th May).  Registration opened today (finally!), and the (draft) agenda is: 08:30 Registration and Coffee/Tea 09:00 Ministerial Launch Minister of State, Science Technology and Innovation, … Continue reading

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Has computer Security improved in 15 years?

Not much apparently: Matt Blaze Don’t get me wrong; cryptography was, and is, important. But in 1995, broken or weak cipher algorithms and implementations were the least of our problems. Has anything improved since then? Hmm. We’ve made some progress … Continue reading

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Speeding fines

I travel one of three different routes into work every day. i tend to follow one most of the time that brings me onto the Waterford City outer ring road. Now, given that I’m not exactly the slowest driver on … Continue reading

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Sean Kelly Tour – a different view

And this is it… What has this got to do with the Sean Kelly Tour? well, the Sean Kelly Tour took place last Sunday (August 30th), and from all accounts it was quite successful with roughly 2700 hardy cyclists taking … Continue reading

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OSX go-slow.

I’m still running 10.4 on my MacBook Pro. This morning when I came into work there was a security update for Safari available which I duly installed. At this point it all went horribly wrong. Securityd swallowed 1.7GB of Ram … Continue reading

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SHIM6 ISO

Following up from my previous post. John McLoughlin and I have a SHIM6 enabled Ubuntu Live CD ISO available here. If there’s a problem with the ISO contact John or Myself. Sébastien is busy enough.

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