Category: Internet

AWS IOT with Mosquitto

October 9, 2015 - Computers , Geek , Home Automation , Internet , IoT - by admin - 3 Comments

Amazon AWS recently released the IOT service, a utility for lightweight devices to create and consume messages on the internet, and also in the case of AWS to leverage the rest of their feature set, such as Kinesis, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, etc. Of course, I didn’t fancy using the AWS […]

apt-key from behind a firewall

July 11, 2012 - Geek , Internet , Linux - by admin - 2 Comments

At work we’re pretty heavily firewalled. This means that outbound requests on funny ports are often firewalled off, and systems that rely on such ports will time out. One such system that is commonly used yet inaccessible is the GPG SKS port 11371. And many many Linux things use GPG! […]

Making OpenDAB, FEC and the Psion Wavefinder work on x64

November 7, 2011 - Geek , Internet , Linux , Radio - by admin - 3 Comments

I’ve had a Psion Wavefinder for a while now, and it’s never really worked that well due to the rather bad combination of poorly written amateur radio related software, out of date build environments (see the previous argument), and the fact that most amateur radio enthusiasts seem to use Windows […]

OpenStreetMap Christmas

December 23, 2008 - Cool things , Internet , Openstreetmap , Web - by admin - No Comments

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 […]

Birthday

December 14, 2008 - Internet , Life - by admin - No Comments

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.