Networking and Wireless

6th January 2004

Decentralised social networking

I know I'm late to the party, but my recent experiments with LinkedIn and Friendster have got me all interested in the potential of software that bulids on top of people's own social networks. There's...

4th July 2003

Simple Python Sockets

Moshe Zadka: Networking for non-programmers (and a follow up), via Hans Nowak. A nice gently introduction to sockets, with example code using Python's socket library....

17th June 2003

IRC on your mobile

Russell Beattie has posted an enthusiastic description of a new IRC application for his mobile phone. It looks really neat, but what got me really interested was his post today about his new laptop: ...

8th April 2003

The Buzz

Russell Beattie rants with zealot passion about how next generation mobile phones will change the way we live: Like the mid 1990s when suddenly you could easily use the internet for the first time ...

LiveHTTPHeaders

Via Sam Buchanan, Daniel Savard's incredibly useful LiveHTTPHeaders addon for Mozilla and Phoenix. It adds an extra tab to the Page Info dialog with the full HTTP headers sent with the page, and also ...

5th April 2003

Personal web cache

Jesse Lawrence is also looking to implement his own aggregator: I've been searching high and low for an RSS reader that I'm happy with and that works on Linux, but so far I've been unsuccessful. ...

11th January 2003

Chat rooms and meetings

In-Room Chat as a Social Tool: Clay Shirky describes an experiment with an online chat room set up to accompany a meeting of 30 people taking place in the same room. The chat room (available to attend...

20th October 2002

Useful LRP links

Some useful Linux Router Project links: The Linux Router Project Homepage - virtually unmaintained and very out of date. LEAF on Sourceforge - the home of various LRP packages. Linux Embedded App...

Easy routing with Linux

I spent the last few days setting up a home network. I'm living in a student house with 4 other people and we recently shelled out for a 1 Mbit cable connection fron BlueYonder. I had never built a ne...

26th June 2002

Warchalking

Warchalking now has its own website: Warchalking.org. Warchalking is one of those brilliant ideas that quickly takes the 'net (or at least parts of it) by storm. The basic idea is a set of symbols whi...