Computing related ideas and musings from the latest technologies to health implications for the IT addict.
Do you want your kids to have completely unrestricted access to the internet? Personally, I wouldn’t want this for my kids – if I had any! However, after being asked to look into the possibilities by someone who does have kids, I discovered all is not as it should be…
Well, perhaps…
Recently, I discovered Vyatta, simply fantastic open source routing software. Excellent, just what I need for my virtual development lab! Running on a very lightweight Linux core, after some initial issues with typos(!), Vyatta connected my dev lab to the WAN in minutes. Simple, straightforward NAT rules and a single static route and off you go!
So, who wants an iPad?
USB3 – ‘so what’ I hear you cry? 5Gbps I respond!
A big fan of the GTD (Getting Things Done) methodology, and having parsed Stephen Coveys 7 Habits and taken a cursory glance at his 8th ‘habit’, I decided it would be useful to condense this overwhelming raft of information, into ‘Brisons 3 highly efficient habits’:
Further to my recent post (iPod Hell), I have found that my new iPod has raised the bar when it comes to frustration Do you need ‘The Five R’s’ in order to get your iPod working? I did…
Two days ago, an iPod Classic came into my life very unexpectedly. Joy, I thought – this new gizmo is really sexy. How wrong could I be?
Today I decided to share a file with a mate, fine. So what’s the trouble with that?
Right now I would have to say yes, it is. For me at least. Twittering is like machine gunning thoughts out over the web. Posts are too small to contain any real depth and do not impose on the reader to do much but ‘skim’. No offence intended – but it seems to me that […]