Giving a new lease of life to a 13 year old MFD.
Powerline Networking Upgrade – Part 3
It’s a been a few weeks since the Powerline upgrade. Predictably something went awry that was worth a few minutes on the keyboard to record. After the installation, I set my own network key – in an effort to practice what I preach using a random string provided by my password generator. Predictably the TPLink […]
Powerline Networking Upgrade – Part 2
A few things occurred to me after I wrote Part 1 of this series, I thought they would be worth documenting here: Number of ports – Unlike the now decommissioned XE104 devices, the new TP-Link devices only have two RJ45 ports (the XE104 had four). Not a huge issue given the proliferation of WiFi – […]
Powerline Networking Upgrade – Part 1
This is Part 1 of 2 – detailing an upgrade to the network at Chez Clark & son. History We’ve been using some ancient Netgear XE104 powerline network devices. These were a relic of the previous house, that were redeployed when we moved here in almost five years ago. Since upgrading the broadband connection to […]
Book Review: Confident Data Skills
Title – Confident Data Skills Author – Kirill Eremenko I picked this up from the the local library’s new arrivals shelf. It appealed because instead of the usual focus of (big data) centric books on specific application tools or use of Python to manipulate data, it focuses on the logical process to use data. As […]
Book Review: Securing Systems: Applied Security Architecture and Threat Models
Title: Securing Systems: Applied Security Architecture and Threat Models Author: Brook S.E. Schoenfield Publisher: CRC Press As a security architect, it’s a rare find when someone writes a book about your field. Most books are selling a religion or disappointing short on content. This is neither of those. The length of the title of this […]
Real Life Mimicking IT life – Showers (& Architecture)
Here at Chateau Clark & Son we’ve had a whizzy new electric shower fitted as part of a bathroom renovation project. Specifically, its this one from Bathstore’s Assure range. NB: Before I go any further – the product is great and performs perfectly. It has been installed and operational for a week, as of the […]
AirPi – Complete & Running
I have finally finished making the AirPi ready for service. After hardening the Pi, using the hardening actions in the Makezine article I have posted previously and putting a cron job into restart overnight, its now ready for deployment outside. I’ve used the excellent software, augmented from the founders original code by Haydn Williams. I’ve […]
AirPi & Ubidots Configuration
I wanted to use an IoT platform to publish real time data from the AirPi. The original AirPi creators used Xively. However, this has subject to some takeovers and didn’t seem the right thing for me. I hunted around and looked at ThingSpeak – but after a bit of trying and failing to make it […]
Algoritms & Security – Part 2
This is part 2 – see part 1 here… In the radio programme – The Uncontrollable Algorithm, one of the points that struck me as very alarming and against the norm of software development is that of not knowing how the algorithm will behave. At first glance, this looks rational. That’s why its an ‘intelligent’ […]