Labour’s Intercept Modernisation Programme returns from the grave

I suppose it shouldn’t come as any surprise that a government goes back on its word once they get to power, but it nonetheless disappoints to discover that LibCons have resurrected Labour’s batshit insane Intercept Modernisation Programme. Now called the Communications Capabilities Development Programme and containing a few superficial tweaks (namely dispensing with a centralised […]

Marcus Povey

I suppose it shouldn’t come as any surprise that a government goes back on its word once they get to power, but it nonetheless disappoints to discover that LibCons have resurrected Labour’s batshit insane Intercept Modernisation Programme. Now called the Communications Capabilities Development Programme and containing a few superficial tweaks (namely dispensing with a centralised […]

Pondering: Using Git to add history to backups

tl;dr: Use Git to selectively add revision history to existing rsync backups. As anyone knows who has used computers for any length of time knows, hardware failure and data loss is inevitable. Having gone through several hard disk crashes, UPS and power failures and random acts of sleepless root console typing I have become especially […]

Marcus Povey

tl;dr: Use Git to selectively add revision history to existing rsync backups. As anyone knows who has used computers for any length of time knows, hardware failure and data loss is inevitable. Having gone through several hard disk crashes, UPS and power failures and random acts of sleepless root console typing I have become especially […]

Getting Netbeans to talk to Trac over SSL using Cubeon

Just a quick note here primarily for my own reference, but also hopefully to save anyone else the faff of getting this set up. In the arms race between Eclipse and Netbeans, it is Netbeans which seems to have jumped ahead in terms of usability and stability. Unfortunately it does not have Trac integration, forcing […]

Marcus Povey

Just a quick note here primarily for my own reference, but also hopefully to save anyone else the faff of getting this set up. In the arms race between Eclipse and Netbeans, it is Netbeans which seems to have jumped ahead in terms of usability and stability. Unfortunately it does not have Trac integration, forcing […]