Category Archives: Work

Engineered – A week of wonder!

Posted on March 2, 2009 by j0n

“During the week of the 9th to 13th of February over 18,000 students took part in a range of interactive engineering related activities in 20 counties across Ireland. The activities ranged from the following:.. more I was asked if I … Continue reading →

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LinShim6 v0.9 Released

Posted on February 22, 2009 by j0n

“I am glad to announce that LinShim6 version 0.9 has been released. The major additions are the followings: —————— – Support for Keepalive Timeout option – Faster failure recovery for TCP applications (thanks to RTO reset upon path change) – … Continue reading →

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Google and privacy.

Posted on November 19, 2008 by j0n

I knew this already, but as Jeff says, seeing some privacy issues presented as simply and starkly as that does make it a little scary.

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Irish IPv6 Summit.

Posted on November 17, 2008 by j0n

Through where I work, I’ve been using/breaking/experimenting with difference facets of IPv6 for several years. Part of what TSSG has been doing is attempting to raise awareness about IPv6 whenever the opportunity arises.  As part of the Irish IPv6 task … Continue reading →

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Shimming.

Posted on May 30, 2008 by j0n

I mentioned SHIM6 way back in November 2006, when I was working on a project where we were doing an ‘initial look’ at SHIM6.  Well now I’m back looking at it again for a different project. So I  have been … Continue reading →

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World Amateur Radio Day, how was yours?

Posted on April 20, 2008 by j0n

Mine was cold, very cold. Friday morning I posted to a mailing list in work that I was going to set up a station in the car-park, a few colleagues braved the elements and helped me set up a station … Continue reading →

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Software Defined Radio

Posted on December 14, 2007 by j0n

This is very interesting.  Who knows, it may soon be possible to have all the different wireless technologies available on one chipset, all presented as just another ‘ethernet’ device (or maybe many devices.   If  there was an  associated hardware signal … Continue reading →

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Whistler – Day 2

Posted on December 12, 2007 by j0n

What a blast! Solely due to the patience and enthusiasm of our instructor Larry, and his ‘shadow’, Alex, our entire group made progress today. I managed to improve my turns to be more HGV like, rather than 747 like, woohoo! … Continue reading →

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Let the vacationing begin

Posted on December 10, 2007 by j0n

IETF is over, and boy was it a tough week, acronyms everywhere, drafts and protocols being the main topic of conversation (the odd bit of sci-fi trivia), quite intimidating for a newbie, though all-in-all very interesting. Today, Dee and I … Continue reading →

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IPv6 Will be deployed soon, why?, because there is a video on YouTube

Posted on October 31, 2007 by j0n

Thanks to Miguel for the link. Is it just me, or is this very funny? Answers on a postcard please…..

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