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100Mb/sec to 95.5% of the country?

August 18, 2008 - Internet , Technology , United Kingdom - by admin - No Comments

As Steve points out, Ofcom have recently released their study on the potential future of the UK broadband network using the existing copper telephone network. There’s two main methods of DSL delivery to end users. One is to have the DSL modems hiding in the local exchange, and the other […]

Isle of Man

August 17, 2008 - Internet , Openstreetmap , United Kingdom , Web - by admin - 3 Comments

It would appear that Google has decided that their map data for the Isle of Man isn’t good enough, and now allow everyone to edit it through their MapMaker system. Several things spring to mind… firstly that OpenStreetmap has great coverage of the island, and secondly, why doesn’t Google want […]

Grub on a DL380

July 18, 2008 - Computers , Geek , Linux , Work - by admin - No Comments

Having had the misfortune to be editing the partition table of one of our Oracle servers, I discovered that Grub 0.97 (the SLES SP1 variety) doesn’t play well with DL380 Smart Array Controllers. The magic auto detection that we’ve all grown to know and love just… it just doesn’t. Here’s […]

Infamy!

July 15, 2008 - Geek , Internet , Openstreetmap - by admin - 1 Comment

Well, not quite. I just spotted that my favourite bit of work, Anderston was featured as an image of the week on the wiki. Admittedly it was in relation to OpenStreetbugs, but it’s a bug I filed as a reminder that’s the highlight. My claim to fame at last :-p

An Idea

July 15, 2008 - Computers , Cool things , Geek , Internet , Linux , Openstreetmap , Twitter , Web - by admin - 2 Comments

It’s probably already been covered, but my 30 seconds of Google-Fu hasn’t turned anything up so bear with me… Take one OpenMoko phone,Â a geolocation service like Fire Eagle, an online celltower database such as CellDB, and some code to use those lovely d-bus bindings, and you could have a […]