Archive for October, 2007

The Cluster Project: Part 1: The Beginning

Being a Computer Science Department with an interest in keeping our tech up to date, we replace desktop and other machines regularly. This results in a surplus of older but still servicable hardware: one of the ideal purposes for this sort of situation is clustering, if you can do it efficiently, economically, and of course [...]

A couple of useful wordpress admin plugins

I’ve set up a couple of wordpress blogs in recent months, and gone through the initial stage of trying out plugins like a kid with lots of small shiny presents to open, testing then removing most of the them after a short while: I think its worthwhile that I point out several of the smaller [...]

The Security Project: Research and associated musings

 Wherein the author is critical of his undergraduate research project:
By way of a follow on to the earlier post on the topic: The (academic) security project rolls on, with about a month to complete our tasks, which essentially involves superficial evaluation of certain mobile phone data acquisition software which purport some valid ‘forensics’ functions, the [...]

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