Never one to shy away from an exciting review, in this article I’ll be describing the thrills and spills of doing the speed limit down one of Bedfordshire’s newest trunk roads, the highway formerly known as the A5-M1 Link Road. but is now just called the A5 after the old road south of the start point was handed to Central Bedfordshire UA and Hertfordshire County Council and renamed to A505/A5183. Apart from being a road, it has one purpose, and that’s avoiding Dunstable (and who would want to argue with that?) The road opened in the summer, but this is the first excuse I’ve had to drive it, which promised to take me all the way to M1.
Author Archives: Gary Hawkins
Things you can now legally do in 2017
Yesterday was an historic day in this country and the rest of the European Union, as one of the most popular songs in the world finally became public domain.
Latency
For those of you that read my last article, you’ll know that I had to turn the power management off on the PCI slots to make my sound card work properly. Well tonight I’ve been comparing the new WASAPI drivers vs the ASIO drivers on my RME HDSP9632 sound card using SONAR Platinum, and the effective latency results were quite surprising:
Why I hate computers, part 335,123,232
When it comes to computers in my house, it never rains but it pours. Microsoft released their monthly Patch Tuesday updates on 8 November 2016, which I duly installed and rebooted, and turned the computer off. When I turned it on the following day, the computer failed to boot. It didn’t even get as far as the blue Windows logo that appears when you try to boot Windows 10. “Very odd”, I thought, “I wonder what caused that?” and went to do some digging.
UK IPv6 Council Annual Meeting 2016
This year I was finally able to attend in person, which took place last Monday 31 October at the offices of the IET in London, having only being able to watch the videos the previous two years. There were many interesting talks; in the morning the meeting was mainly talks from some of the major UK ISPs on how their rollouts are going.
IPv6: Everyone’s an expert
One of the great things about the Internet, it might be argued, is that it gives everyone who wants one a voice. One example of this in action might be this blog. But equally, there’s ways of expressing your opinon all over the Internet, most popularly using social media web sites, and comment sections of ‘normal’ web sites.
Review: Skoda Fabia Mk3 (2015-)
The first thing you notice about this car is that it’s really an astonishing size for a supermini. Just a smidge wider than its previous incarnations, it’s a still a nice size for its class. The car has the top-spec SE L trim, and comes in Corrida Red which is a non-metallic paint colour.
Sky/IPv6 announcement
Sky put out a press release today which announced the completion (although, later on in the press release, it changed its mind to almost completed) of its IPv6 rollout in the UK (and well timed, too, because the UKNOF35 conference starts in two days)
Review: Mayonnaise
A common question I’m never asked on a regular basis is: “What sort of mayonnaise should I put on my burger?” So in an effort to answer this clearly important question, I have decided in this blog post to review two common mayonnaises that I put on my burgers (between the burger and the bottom of the bread roll, if you must know) which are both available from a leading brand of supermarket close to where I live.
What you should have connected to /dev/tty
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A teletype machine at The National Museum of Computing in the grounds of Bletchley Park