Not much known outside techies, but I have to agree with Fox, the Stuxnet worm did do a James Bond-style job in crippling Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Spinning the centrifuges too fast and stopping them abruptly so they break is genius. … Continue reading
How lovely to segue from Graham Norton to Milstein nailing the Kreutzer sonata. Superb.
It was not entirely simple to get Transmission running on my QNAP TS-239 Pro II. [UPDATE: yes it was – use the QPKG version and it is a doddle. You can do some of the settings.json changes as shown below … Continue reading
http://m.boingboing.net/2010/11/24/irish-journalisms-tr.html Image: http://craphound.com/images/197206998.jpg Not the kind of journalism we are used to…
John Snow’s pump. Great story of medical research proving that cholera was waterborne, great infographic, good pub, too. I’d never connected them all, despite often seeming to go to Broadwick Street weekly.
Following the useful suggestions from this thread, I changed my BT router and QNap NAS settings to speed up my downloads. Disable UPnP in the router (BT Home Hub, Advanced>Application Sharing>UPnP menu) Change the torrent port on the NAS from … Continue reading
Great article with a silly title: Lies, Damned Lies, and Medical Science. Quote from the hero of the piece: something to help us recast scientific research for the future: “Science is a noble endeavor, but it’s also a low-yield endeavor,” … Continue reading
Who’s Lobbying is a useful resource to see who’s meeting which departments and for what purpose. Great use of open data and some whizzy matching tools.
Saul’s experience suggests that companies need a developer, a designer and a distributor (could be two rather than three people): someone who understands how to build technologies and systems to solve problems someone who understands the human factors behind those … Continue reading
Google Refine looks like a nice build on Gridworks. If you are dealing with large data sets that have internal inconsistencies, this is for you.
