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The most obvious things are the hardest to spot: RF interference and the bluetooth keyboard
So I’m a bit embarrassed how long this took me to clue in. I have a spiffy bluetooth keyboard. Its great, its got a touchpoint on it, great key travel. Its basically the same keyboard I had on much much loved x300 years ago. But, funny thing, in the evenings it would behave badly. The…
I can’t A4rd to not read the fine print on this scam
So recently I applied for an EU trademark (no its not on ‘angry orange diaper baby’). While the machinations of government weed their way along on this I just sort of wait and twiddle my thumbs, periodically they may ask for more detail. So I get home from work tonight and there is a letter.…
In the waterloo(ish) area? like to discuss the technology of getting great products/companies going?
Then this is the meetup for you! A big part of my life is learning, doing, teaching. Until recently I was in an environment where there were a lot of others doing the same. This is intended to allow those of us in the diaspora to cross-share our learnings, to bootstrap each other, reducing the…
Ontario health breach and cyber defence strategies: its not just the choke (perimeter)
Recently some miscreants broke into an Ontario local health network (Care Partners) and made off with… a lot. And now they are asking for ‘ransom’. Is this unique? No, there have been a lot of similar breaches recently, probably far more than go public (many companies probably pay the ransom quietly). What can one do,…
Completely Complex Cloud Cluster Capacity Crisis: Cool as a Cucumber in Kubernetes
So…. capacity. There’s never enough. This is why people like cloud computing. You can expand for some extra cash. There’s different ways to expand: scale out (add more of the same) and scale up (make the same things bigger). Normally in cloud you are focused on scale-out, but, well, you need big enough pieces to…