Archive for the ‘Internet’ Category.
December 23, 2008, 8:58 pm
One day to go before Christmas, and the UK government have made an astounding contribution to the OpenStreetMap project. It will shortly be announced that through collaboration with the Department for Transport, Traveline, and OpenStreetMap, most of the NaPTAN and NPTG datasets will be offered to OpenStreetMap as a one off bulk import, with the possibility of updates in the future.
This means the import of up to 350,000 geocoded public transport access points, such as bus stops, ferry terminals, trains stations, etc, along with the import of up to 50,000 geocoded place names in a hierarchical format.
Once again, a big thank you to the DfT and Traveline for this massive contribution, and to the OSM Foundation for making it all possible.
December 14, 2008, 3:00 am
It seems unreal, but today is the tenth birthday of Glasgownet.com. All those years ago, thinking I was crazy and it was a passing fad. My grandpa paid for the first two years subscription, and here we are today.
I think now is a good time for cake.
November 5, 2008, 12:57 pm
Normally you’re supposed to tag the next people to carry on the meme, but in Flash’s instance, she didn’t. So here goes anyway…
If the connection between devices A and B breaks, then the devices know about it immediately because there is two-way communication between them, and they have now lost contact with one another
It’s not exactly nitty, gritty fiction, or classical prose. More along the lines of simple ring topology in O’Reilly’s “Designing Large Scale LANs”
The rules for this meme thing are :
* Grab the nearest book.
* Open it to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don’t dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.
Other followers of this meme suggest several sentences from the book, and 5 nominees to go next. I’ll do the latter.
Ben Thorp
Mike Quin
Joel Rowbottom
Calum Morrell
Alex Holden
September 8, 2008, 9:47 pm
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It’s time, and Ofcom are beginning to enforce the latest revision to General Condition 4, whereupon VoIP providers must, where technically feasible, provide location information for their VoIP users. In order to aid emergency services, they will transmit details of your fixed line location to the recipient when you make an emergency call.
Obviously this is quite an important thing, and not something you want to get wrong. So take a few moments now to ensure that the details held by your VoIP provider are the correct details.
February 22, 2008, 8:26 am
It would appear so…
To: postmaster@cityoflondon.police.uk
CC: Kenny.MacAskill.msp@scottish.parliament.uk, public.enquiries@homeoffice.gsi.gov.uk
Dear City of London Police,
I see that we still have not had a response to this request for information. Please can you provide the answers that we seek, or suggest alternative routes to go down. If we are to be arrested without good reason, we would like to know how best to respond to the incorrect assumptions made by the police.
Regards
Kyle
