What happened to all the free Wifi?

Once upon a time it used to be easy to find free wifi. If you needed to check your email or do a bit of work while on the go it just used to be a matter of popping into the nearest coffee shop. But increasingly these pools of signal seem to be drying up, […]

Marcus Povey

Once upon a time it used to be easy to find free wifi. If you needed to check your email or do a bit of work while on the go it just used to be a matter of popping into the nearest coffee shop. But increasingly these pools of signal seem to be drying up, […]

I’m excited about the Raspberry Pi (and you should be too)

The Raspberry Pi is a tiny, solid state, and ludicrously cheap hobby ARM based computer designed in the UK (but thanks to insane UK tax laws needs to be built in China). It has a USB port, video, sound, an Ethernet port, 256MB RAM, and can run 3 distinct flavours of Linux. Ostensibly the device […]

Marcus Povey

The Raspberry Pi is a tiny, solid state, and ludicrously cheap hobby ARM based computer designed in the UK (but thanks to insane UK tax laws needs to be built in China). It has a USB port, video, sound, an Ethernet port, 256MB RAM, and can run 3 distinct flavours of Linux. Ostensibly the device […]

DNS is a symptom of broken search #sopa

The Domain Name System – which much of the internet is built on – is a system of servers which turn friendly names humans understand (foo.com) into IP addresses which computers understand (111.222.333.444). It is hierarchical and to a large extent centralised. You will be the master of *.foo.com, but you have to buy foo.com […]

Marcus Povey

The Domain Name System – which much of the internet is built on – is a system of servers which turn friendly names humans understand (foo.com) into IP addresses which computers understand (111.222.333.444). It is hierarchical and to a large extent centralised. You will be the master of *.foo.com, but you have to buy foo.com […]