A year to the date of the original merger announcement Broadcom to buy Brocade for $5.9bn, both Brocade and Broadcom have announced a delay in their merger. The Committee on Foreign…
$3m cost when forgetting to re-register your domain.
Every couple of years I get a bunch of emails from my ISP. These are reminding me that my domain name is about to expire and that if I don't…
Bandwidth Control using an intuitive NetValve
Having worked with Ipanema for a while, I can recognise an intuitive user experience for controlling bandwidth. But none is as intuitive as a solution which uses a technology almost…
Tweaking WordPress – Adding new CSS classes highlighting updates
Quite a few of the pages on the CoherentLight website are updated over time, and I'd like to add a way of indicating that this has happened. Previously this has…
AstroPi receives upgrades and ISS roaming
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has published a note about planned upgrades to the two AstroPi devices aboard the International Space Station. Based on the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B+, the AstroPi…
Robot Conductor and the Tenor
A concert with Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and soprano Maria Luigia Borsi in the decorated Teatro Verdi, in Florence, would not normally be something that I would cover. But they weren't the ones people…
LoRa extends record distance to 702 km
The Things Network reports that intrepid makers have extended the distance at which a LoRa packet reached one of their gateways. You may remember one of my earlier posts, in…
UK Government launch Fibre to the premises (FTTP) trial
The UK government has announced the six areas that are to pilot a fast broadband trial. The pilot will spend £10mn to stimulate the market place for full fibre delivery…