Algorithms

Written by Paul in blog on Thu 05 July 2018. Tags: blog,

The word algorithm seems to fill some people with dread. It is most likely caused by Facebook using an algorithm to decide what you see on their site.

It used to be that you just saw each post from anything you ‘liked’ and anyone you were ‘friends’ with. With the …

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Why You Shouldn't Interrupt a Programmer

Written by Paul in blog on Wed 04 July 2018. Tags: blog,

I realise there are any number of people who do complex tasks that wouldn’t want to be or shouldn’t be interrupted. But as someone who is regularly interupted, this cartoon really sums up the situation. Click here

Basically the ‘problem’ you are looking at is enormous and takes …

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Broken Laptop

Written by Paul in blog on Sat 30 June 2018. Tags: blog,

Oh, no! Now my laptop won’t work. For some reason it won’t boot. After booting a live Linux DVD I ran fsck on the hard disk to fix it, but there were a lot of problems. Now it still won’t boot. I’ve looked at quite a …

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have i been pwned

Written by Paul in blog on Mon 25 June 2018. Tags: blog,

You give your details to various companies and organisations, when you buy something you give your address and email and more. All you can do is hope that they will look after them. But sometimes these organisations are hacked or carelessly lose your details. There is not much you can …

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