This weeks edition – the spanning tree protocol and a Netgear GS108T “smart” switch. For those of you not familiar with STP – and I include myself in that category until about 24 hours ago – it’s a system that allows switches to have multiple redundant paths to the same device. In old fashioned networking (I.E. when I was a lad) this was a very bad idea as it led to a broadcast storm, or a feedback loop as us […]
Spotted in West Hampstead. Perhaps it just looks like that from this angle….
Remember 3D Monster Maze? Here’s a video If you really want a trip down memory lane try http://www.zx81museum.net/
Shock horror, famous artist signs eggs and tries to flog them for £25 at the art car boot. You can read the vaguely inaccurate Evening Standard article here. I say inaccurate because as far as I could tell there wasn’t any “scramble” to purchase the eggs that I was aware of. In fact most people seemed pretty uninterested (eggsasperated?) at the prospect of a twenty five pound signed egg. Still, never let reality get in the way of a good […]
When I first enabled the domain filtering on our network I select a medium level of content to be removed. This pre-set included amongst other things gambling, games, terrorist activity (a.k.a. bomb making) racism and religion. Twelve months later the only one that I have not be asked to remove in the interests of “TV research” is religion. Presumably everyone who works in TV is a heathen then.
