Entropy1024

RAID: Safety in numbers

Entropy1024 — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:55:11 +0000

Inside your PC is probably a single hard drive. It may be partitioned into a couple or more sections but it’s still one single physical drive. If this drive fails you can lose all the data on that device. Not a good place to be in. A little known fact is that hard drives have minor failures all [...]

The Cloud. Resistance is Futile.

Entropy1024 — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:54:38 +0000

When computers were the size of small houses and there were very few in operation; most people accessed them via remote terminals, either in the same building or over large distances. These dumb terminals were effectively simple input/output devices and therefore needed very little processing power. All the main work was stored and executed by the [...]

Me and my Droid

Entropy1024 — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:30:09 +0000

My old cell phone, a Nokia 82, lasted me 2 years and is still a very capable phone, but with the Symbian60 Operating System (OS) reaching the end of life and the appeal of a large touch screen display with much better web browsing became too much and I had to upgrade.

Years ago buying a phone [...]

Advertising & Zombies

Entropy1024 — Mon, 31 May 2010 18:17:53 +0000

First off; what I am about to say, in a no doubt rambling fashion, is certainly going to be much better summed up by a famous Bill Hicks statement at the end of this blog post. So I won’t be upset if you ‘skip to the end’ here and just go to the quote.

I hate advertising [...]

Two Factor Authentication & Yubikey

Entropy1024 — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:02:22 +0000

These days we have to remember passwords for a huge host of web sites and systems, unless of course you just use the same one for every site, bad idea, eggs and baskets spring to mind. Then there is the quality of the password, short and easy to remember passwords are easier for a hacker to [...]

Avatar

Entropy1024 — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:49:13 +0000

Spoiler alert. This review has lots of spoilers, not to mention a total story synopsis.

Avatar, James Cameron’s film that was a decade in the making is now in cinemas. Last week when I told some friends I was going to see it soon one reply I got was ‘Oh, is that the funny looking cartoon thing?’ I [...]

Demon Seed (2009)

Entropy1024 — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:33:45 +0000

Ever since watching the 1977 movie Demon Seed as a kid I wanted an automated home. Now I am well on my way. I already have security cameras that I can view remotely on me cell or PC, but until recently no remote control over electrical appliances or lights etc. Enter X-10.

X-10 works by sending signals [...]

Going Postal

Entropy1024 — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:54:44 +0000

So the post office is going to strike again. To be honest I am not sure I will notice any difference in their service.

I recently got a snotty letter from British Gas titled ‘Statement of Intent’ in big red threatening letters, evidently earlier communications asking for payment did not make it to my address and [...]

Newspapers! In this day and age?

Entropy1024 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:00:15 +0000

I have never been one for buying newspapers, I find that they always have yesterdays news in them.

News is a highly perishable product and so you want to get it as fast as possible. In Victorian times I’m sure the newspaper was a very good way of getting up do date with current affairs. Reporters in [...]

Creationism, Dinosaurs and Noodles

Entropy1024 — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:09:50 +0000

Most Creationists believe that the Bible should be taken literally, it’s a document of fact. They reject Evolution. All their hopes and faith are put in this one book.

To them; life the Universe and everything was created by God, in six days, well five I guess, he evidently spent the sixth day creating all the animals, [...]

Sony PRS-505 eBook Reader Review

Entropy1024 — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:12:38 +0000

I have read lots of eBooks in my time and have a vast E-library. To read these books I have always used a free program called MobiReader on my Nokia phones. It Works especially well with the auto scroll feature that moves the text up the screen like an auto-cue, eliminating page turns, which is [...]

Star Trek XI

Entropy1024 — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 09:25:07 +0000

SPOILER ALERT. Do not read until you have seen Star Trek XI

The other week I finally got round to watching J.J.Abrahams working of Star Trek, which appears to be called ‘Star Trek’. There must have been some long days in various meetings with the results passed through several research groups to arrive at that title. Thankfully the [...]