Monthly Archives: December 2014

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[tech] I have killed my mobile..

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My mobile is dead, very dead, the screen stays resolutely blank unless I force a reboot in which case I get a small flash from the navigation keys at the bottom.

The screen has been flickering for a little while now, which has been annoying, but I had thought it would hold out till the new year.  Well it nearly made it.  So have the choice of trying to find another little mobile phone shop and seeing if they can fix it.  or getting a new phone.  Neither of which will be very quick.  Which is rather annoying.

So I will be slightly harder to get hold of for the next while.  Sure that you will be ale to cope mind.

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[tech] Infomation Security Fail

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So I have just registered on a job website for Information Security roles.  Nothing exciting there.

What has amused me is that as part of that registration the site which specialises in Information Security, sent me a confirmation email, an email that included both my username and password in clear text.

Part of me is wondering if this is some sort of test, if you don’t comment on this then clearly you do not work in the field.

Why do websites continue to do this? this is such a school boy error.

And if they have got that wrong, then what other mistakes are they making?

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[tech] this was posted from a Windows free laptop..

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So after 2 weeks of faffing I now have Debian running on my laptop, took rather more mucking about than it should have done.  Just so I remember what I had to do here are some notes.

To get past UEFI secure boot I had to install Ubuntu, once that had successfully installed the grub boot loader, then I could install Debian non-free as the USB wifi dongle I was using was based on the Ralnk chipset, and that isn’t part of the standard package.

Once that was installed, you could add the distributions for back port and  contrib and non-free to /etc/apt/sources.list also add support for 32 bit architecture and install  firmware-iwlwifi

After all of that it seems to be working, which is a very good thing.