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Easy Creme Brulee
For something so simple as creme brulee I wondered why so many recipes turn four ingredients and few basic steps into a cooking challenge. Here is my easy…
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Bitcoin is being set up to fail spectacularly
Bitcoin is all the rage at the end of 2017. The interesting question is not why it has risen so high and so fast, but why it…
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Damnatio memoriae
The last few days have reminded me that we really need to stop "glorifying" the actions of mass murderers and actually do something to prevent others repeating their…
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Dead simple ssh login monitoring with Monit and Pushover
Following on from my earlier post on how to set up Dead simple CentOS server monitoring with Monit and Pushover, I recently added monitoring for ssh logins. I…
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Easy Protection of File Downloads in WordPress
I recently wanted to protect some files from unauthorised download on a WordPress site, but still allow authorised users to easily access the files. The simplest solution I found…
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Carnot Efficient Dyson Spheres are Undetectable by Infrared Surveys
An interesting series of papers were published in The Astrophysical Journal in 2014 and 2015 by J. T. Wright and colleagues who used data from the WISE and Spitzer wide-field infrared…
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Dead simple CentOS server monitoring with Monit and Pushover
My company Nucleics has an array of servers distributed around the world to support our PeakTrace Basecaller. For historical reasons these servers are a mix of CentOS 6/7 VPS…
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A Quick & Dirty Analysis of Apply HN
Y Combinator recently launched a new initiative where they asked the Hacker News community to identify promising startups to fund via the YC fellowship program. This program provides US$20,000…
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CentOS 6: Adjusting the remote desktop resolution without a monitor being connected
If you remote desktop share into a CentOS 6 system without a monitor being connected (i.e. a headless server) the screen resolution defaults to a tiny 800x600. Unfortunately…
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A Good Idea Checklist
I have had quite a bit of discussion about my article Ideas are not Cheap over the last few months and especially around the checklist for judging the quality of startup ideas.…