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There is a lot of myth and misconception about whether right angle (90°), chamfered (45°) or curved PCB traces are “better”.

Ticketweb (a UK arm of Ticketmaster) have confirmed that someone was able to send emails to subscribers fraudulently.

This afternoon I received an email with the spammy subject Action Required : Update Your PDF Application.

I have moved the contents of this post to a permanent page, available at this page.

I found a neat plastic enclosure with a battery compartment that I plan on using for a current project.

After installing vim from MacPorts I noticed that neither the arrow keys or backspace work as expected.

Today I forgot the password for a site I use only occasionally.

After a number of unsuccessful attempts to get dban on a USB stick using unetbootin, I found the Universal USB Installer instead.

So I thought I was being a good internet citizen when I received the following email a week ago: Dear User; Please update to our new server click here to begin http://glacierdesign.ca/phpform/forms/form1.html Thanks and have a wonderful day.

Occasionally I see packet captures which have been saved as Raw IP, which can really mess up many of the tools developed to deal with pcap.

I have just purchased a Humax HDR-FOX T2 as an upgrade to my trusty old PVR-9200, after my area was enabled for Freeview HD.

I have previously raved about BatchPCB, a low cost prototyping service run by SparkFun out of the USA.

Whilst the Sharp Architecture maintainers have little interest in Razor (see here), I have been using it recently and like the syntax.

I have just uploaded the latest version of my Eagle library, containing a bunch of new parts.

One of the circuit boards I’m developing would benefit from an onboard antenna, so I started hunting for design tips.

This blog can now be reached over IPv6 (or ipv6.edeca.net), which is surely the final nail in the coffin of IPv4 across the internet.

It has been ages since I have updated this site.

This board came about for two reasons.

I finally upgraded my old iPhone 3GS to iOS4, but it wasn’t a smooth process.

The other day I pushed a new version of Net::LibNIDS to CPAN.

Whilst looking for some music to use as jingles/beds for a charity radio project I assist I found FreeNotesMusic.

Anybody who has used command-line systems for a serious amount of time will love grep.

My first bunch of boards arrived back from BatchPCB and I’m really impressed.

During a recent conversation with another Dave he pointed me at the Facebook group “No, you’re not a photographer, you just own a camera” (update May 2011: this no longer exists).

It is sometimes useful to limit the running time of a process, either to stop it from using up all resources or to make sure nightly cron jobs don’t continue into working hours.

This post looks at what is needed to get a serial connectiong working with BoostC using a PIC with a hardware USART.

I noticed tonight that my Cisco 837 was using hard-coded DNS servers which were no longer valid, hence breaking my internets.

A very short note to say that I have (finally) published my Eagle components library on this site.

This page contains my Eagle library.

In a previous message I spoke about training dspam automatically.

Recently I have installed and configured dspam on my mailserver.

Much of the code I have written as part of my day job uses the rather excellent libnids.

The following article is a repost of an original that I wrote for blogs.perl.org.

Since I’d had my iPhone I’ve wanted to be able to sync my contacts with my Horde Webmail install.

I have recently started using the Funambol iPhone app to keep my contacts in sync with my webmail addressbook.

Tired of seeing repeated attempts to login to a Linux server you run?

Note: This post is archived.

In a slightly crazed moment today I decided to write some documentation.

So Windows 7 is here.

I’ve been using Remember The Milk for a few days now and I am really impressed.

It has frustrated me for a while that the play/pause buttons on my keyboard don’t control iTunes unless the iTunes window has focus.

Extended ACLs on Linux can be incredibly useful.

Another odd bug, this time in the RSS feed reader liferea.

Apparently there are now testing builds of Firefox that fix some of the bugs I mentioned previously.

A small network I manage uses Squid and today I decided to enable proxy authentication to improve security a little.

This is a set of free graphics illustrating the alphabet in nautical flags (from alpha to zulu, no numbers) which I originally created to use in an educational game.

Note: This page was imported from a much older version of my site.

Note: This page was imported from a much older version of my site.

Note: This page is archived.

After getting back into electronics recently, I decided to have a go at making a PCB.