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• 2010-09-30: HDCP encryption/decryption code.
• 2010-09-30: The world's longest disused guided busway.
• 2010-09-30: How to configure Thunderbird to avoid Exchange's inability to handle Content-Disposition: inline.
• 2010-09-30: Google's use of Haskell for virtual machine cluster load balancing.
• 2010-09-30: Linux's "swap insanity" problem and the effects of the NUMA architecture.
• 2010-09-29: FDA bureacratic interference seriously discourages the development of new antibiotics.
• 2010-09-29: Five reasons to stop praising your child.
• 2010-09-29: MathJax: beautiful maths in all browsers.
• 2010-09-29: Russ Allbery's coding style notes (including docs and build system).
• 2010-09-28: Quicksort is faster with two pivots.
• 2010-09-28: Internet Failures: an emergent sea of complex systems and critical design errors?
• 2010-09-27: ILNP - Identifier/Locator Network Protocol - another attempt to fix IPv6's scalability.
• 2010-09-27: Lego Tower Bridge.
• 2010-09-26: Is Gideon Levy the most hated man in Israel or just the most heroic?
• 2010-09-26: Margaret Stanier's memorial unequal-hours sundial at Newnham.
• 2010-09-26: The Spamhaus Whitelist.
• 2010-09-25: Bonfire of the quangos - find out what they know before they shred everything!
• 2010-09-24: Most software patents do not survive a lawsuit.
• 2010-09-24: Incident report for the .uk DNSSEC screwup of 11 Sep.
• 2010-09-24: ltwitter: Lua Twitter client.
• 2010-09-24: iOS programming with Lua.
• 2010-09-24: A digital media primer for geeks. (30 min. video)
• 2010-09-24: Endlich: das xphone. (youtube) :-)
• 2010-09-24: makespace - Cambridge "inventing shed" / hackspace.
• 2010-09-23: Pinion P-1: a bottom-bracket bike gearbox.
• 2010-09-23: BookBook: a MacBook case that looks like an old hardback.
• 2010-09-23: evercookie - virtually irrevocable persistent cookies.
• 2010-09-22: A path-finding algorithm for loop-free routing.
• 2010-09-22: libconfig - configuration file library for C and C++.
• 2010-09-21: AppTamer: Mac OS X GUI for SIGSTOP and renice.
• 2010-09-21: Unibody MacBook chopping board.
• 2010-09-21: Copilot: a Haskell DSL for writing embedded hard real time avionics code.
• 2010-09-21: Perian: universal codec for QuickTime.
• 2010-09-21: A Linux feature to get more info about dying processes. (/proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern)
• 2010-09-20: Using an Apple Aluminium keyboard with Linux.
• 2010-09-20: Using the Apple Bluetooth keyboard with the Nokia N800.
• 2010-09-20: On-line tools to test your DNS setup.
• 2010-09-20: The Twitter Joke trial - mindless authoritatianism in modern Britain.
• 2010-09-20: iPhones for the blind.
• 2010-09-19: Gene for short-sightedness discovered.
• 2010-09-19: How to stifle the British press.
• 2010-09-19: Visual transistor-level simulation of the 6502 microprocessor.
• 2010-09-19: ICSI Netalyzr - connectivity debugging.
• 2010-09-19: Network Performance Knowledge Base - Issues for Bulk Data Transfer over a WAN.
• 2010-09-17: Machine learning spam filter based on the Google Prediction API.
• 2010-09-17: A small fraction of selfish referees can drastically reduce the quality of published science.
• 2010-09-17: What's cooking for FreeBSD 9?
• 2010-09-17: Steve Jobs ninja stars revealed to be iPod prototypes.
• 2010-09-17: Police sabotage News of the World investigation by intimidating whistle-blowers.
• 2010-09-17: Using colour in information display graphics.
• 2010-09-16: How to get SMS delivery reports on an iPhone.
• 2010-09-16: SCSI debug driver for Linux - configurable block size and error generation.
• 2010-09-16: Solomon Linda and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".
• 2010-09-16: John's Phone is the world's simplest cell phone.
• 2010-09-16: earPod - iPhone earbud case.
• 2010-09-16: miniWINDER - iPhone earbud case.
• 2010-09-16: earBuddy - iPhone earbud case.
• 2010-09-16: BudCase 2 - iPhone ear bud case.
• 2010-09-15: Paedophile priests still supported by UK Catholic church.
• 2010-09-15: Popular usernames and passwords. (word clouds)
• 2010-09-15: Brilliant 3D light painting stop motion animation with iPads. (vimeo)
• 2010-09-14: Musicians make more money in file-sharing age than before.
• 2010-09-14: HDCP master key leaked?
• 2010-09-14: Musopen - copyright-free classical music recordings.
• 2010-09-14: Mac OS X hidden features and useful tricks.
• 2010-09-14: "Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
• 2010-09-14: Experimental JIT-compiled version of LPEG.
• 2010-09-14: Calm networking.
• 2010-09-13: Official response from the USA to the ITU-R on the abolition of leap seconds. (docx)
• 2010-09-13: AppleScript code to avoid top-posted replies in Mail.app.
• 2010-09-13: Professor Brindley's famous lecture about the first effective remedy for erectile disfunction.
• 2010-09-13: Alec Muffett thinks remote wipe is OK. (I think he is too sanguine.)
• 2010-09-13: MS Exchange server admins can remotely wipe client devices!!
• 2010-09-12: The man who makes your iPhone.
• 2010-09-11: How iPhones detect wifi captive portals.
• 2010-09-11: Fortifying Scheme macros.
• 2010-09-11: Court upholds EULAs, threatening digital resale.
• 2010-09-11: Topology-independent flat addressing makes sub-linear routing table sizes impossible.
• 2010-09-10: Reverse traceroute.
• 2010-09-10: Why parents can't do primary school maths any more.
• 2010-09-10: Network Heretics on timezone identifiers.
• 2010-09-10: MobilityFirst future internet architecture.
• 2010-09-10: XIA: the expressive internet architecture.
• 2010-09-09: Test your internet connection speed. Is your provider throttling certain apps?
• 2010-09-09: Apple relaxes restrictions on development tools used to create iOS apps, provided the apps do not download any code.
• 2010-09-09: Urs Hölzle: Brawny cores still beat wimpy cores, most of the time.
• 2010-09-09: Why blue collar Americans switched from the Democrats to the Republicans.
• 2010-09-09: Longyearbyen: the most northerly sundial.
• 2010-09-09: On packet switches with infinite storage.
• 2010-09-08: The annual workshop on duplicating, deconstructing, and debunking research in computer architecture.
• 2010-09-08: Why we don't need more women in tech ... yet.
• 2010-09-08: A retrospective on software transactional memory (wrt C#).
• 2010-09-07: A classically-trained singing instructor reviews five metal singers.
• 2010-09-07: Great microprocessors of the past and present.
• 2010-09-07: Mediaeval helpdesk. (youtube)
• 2010-09-07: Subtleties of search-and-replace in Emacs.
• 2010-09-07: The "premature optimization is evil" myth.
• 2010-09-07: Pictures of a morris dancing event in London.
• 2010-09-06: SURFnet (Dutch academic network) DNSSEC survey.
• 2010-09-06: Alan Turing and reaction-diffusion.
• 2010-09-06: More parkour in Cambridge.
• 2010-09-06: Parkour in Cambridge.
• 2010-09-06: University of Cambridge corporate typography and design guidelines.
• 2010-09-06: Rethinking the service model: scaling ethernet to a million nodes.
• 2010-09-06: The Bernhardt precision sundial.
• 2010-09-06: Dangermouse's esoteric programming languages and algorithms.
• 2010-09-04: syslogintr: a syslog daemon configured with Lua.
• 2010-09-04: Stephen Hawking denies God.
• 2010-09-04: A nifty new jet engine design promises to improve combustion efficiency.
• 2010-09-04: Most of the environmental impact of an electric car comes from its operation not from battery manufacture.
• 2010-09-04: Cool tech drives the strong demand for Java skills.
• 2010-09-04: Paul Allen's patent are not worth single penny - execution counts, not lawsuits.
• 2010-09-03: Why is everyone always writing off Netflix?
• 2010-09-03: Thomas Edison's plot to patent the movie industry to death.
• 2010-09-03: SSL Certificate Authorities: the Internet's cryptography back door.
• 2010-09-03: Edwina Currie was right about salmonella.
• 2010-09-03: U.S. rejected chicken salmonella vaccination despite British success.
• 2010-09-02: The third-world squat.
• 2010-09-02: How defecation posture affects your health.
• 2010-09-02: Why can you turn clothing inside-out?
• 2010-09-02: How to lose data.
• 2010-09-02: Productivity tips for academics.
• 2010-09-02: Five myths about the female brain.
• 2010-09-02: Netflix lets its staff take as much holiday as they want, whenever they want - and it works.
• 2010-09-02: How Twitter does OAuth wrong, and how to compromise it.
• 2010-09-02: Problems with ACID and scalability, and how to fix them without going NoSQL.
• 2010-09-02: Fast cache for your text: accelerating exact pattern matching with feed-forward Bloom filters.
• 2010-09-02: CPU clock rates stopped growing in 2003. (article text 2005; graph updated 2009)
• 2010-09-02: Represent sets using products of primes.
• 2010-09-02: A complete history of the Soviet Union from the point of view of the workers - or is it Tetris?.
• 2010-09-02: Strength training for parkour.
• 2010-09-02: Impressive parkour in Cambridge.
• 2010-09-02: Ten easy ways to fail a PhD.
• 2010-09-02: Ubercab aims to disrupt the taxi business.
• 2010-09-02: The New York Times on the News of the World hacking voicemail for celebrity gossip.
• 2010-09-01: UK Youth Parliament report on sex education.
• 2010-09-01: Google Summer of Code project: dynamic NetBSD kernel extensions written in Lua.
• 2010-09-01: Mail abuse reporting format spec finally published as RFC 5965.
• 2010-09-01: Lord Tanlaw summarizes the UTC vs. GMT argument in UK law.
• 2010-09-01: Charles Darwin terraformed Ascension Island.
• 2010-09-01: The fake telephone tech support scam - supportonclick, systemrecure and logmein123.com.
• 2010-09-01: Compile Haskell to synthesizable VHDL.
• 2010-09-01: Who would gain from copyright restrictions on fashion?
• 2010-09-01: Make Time Machine aware of your Mac's location.