I was digesting "The Design of Design" by Fred Brooks as a bit of holiday reading, which talks in great depth about the nature...
Continue Reading →Fix: Dell Laptops and workstations not rebooting (“Restarting System”)
Had an interesting if annoying problem recently that I assumed would just fix itself eventually. But when you're sick of prodding a power button to...
Continue Reading →Mercurial to Git transfer; problems, and pitfalls.
Finally decided to move my research work across to GitHub; seems the 'in' thing to do. Also I wanted to get more into the Git...
Continue Reading →Abracadabra – NI Assembly’s Plans to have 60% more PhD Researchers
I was skimming through the Oral Statement from yesterday's Assembly, with a specific interest in...Bus Services, a simple change for @Translink_NI, a big help for @NISP_Connect and @ECIT_QUB
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IT @ QUB are moving forward
QUB Relevant: Mostly PGR or prospective PGRJust out of a great meeting with QUB Information Services regarding:
Continue Reading →- Researcher/ Student webspace
- Wifi
- and VPN
Web Space
For a while now, this...“The Pitch”
“I want £100,000 to change a small country forever, with a charitable project that already works, but is going nowhere because no one who wants to support it can, and no one who can support it cares,”
Happy New Year
So, what are they going to do with all those 'NI 2012: Our Time Out Place' things?Is it no longer our place? Are...
Continue Reading →Idiots Guide to Updating Nexus 7 to Latest ROM
Came across a well known issue with QUB_SEC and Android, so I decided to fix it.Basically, Android was bailing on a particular part of...
Continue Reading →4G and ‘The Northern Ireland Problem’
Then, the ITU decided in 2000 to draw a big arbitrary line in the sand and say “maybe it’s time to bring the international community under one mobile technology”, producing the UMTS standard, which the Americans and Koreans promptly ignored and threw together CDMA2000. The ITU eventually did the only thing a standards body can do when a hemisphere sticks two fingers up to a standard; says that it’s part of the standard…