England’s most remote building Skiddaw House, described by Alfred Wainwright as being “at the back o’ beyond” has found a solution to its telecom problems. The house stands on a 1500ft high plateau between Skiddaw and Blencathra, three and a half miles from the nearest road, with no mains electricity, postal delivery, landline telephone, . . . → Read More: Back o’ beyond gets a phone service
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To celebrate the rebuilding of the WWII code breaking machine Colossus, the National Museum of Computing is running a challenge. During 15th and 16th November, historic Lorenz SZ42 ciphertext will be transmitted by radio amateurs at Heinz Nixdorf MuseumForum in Paderborn, Germany at the following times and frequencies preceded by a preamble in RTTY. The preamble message, which contains information needed to receive the SZ42 transmission is here. The ciphertext will be received by two teams of amateur codebreakers at Bletchley Park. The first will comprise members of the Milton Keynes Amateur Radio Society operating amateur radio station callsign GB2BP and using modern equipment. The second team will use the same type of equipment as used in the intercept Continue reading Colossus Challenge On my journey to become a professional property investor and developer I went along to my first property auction last night. I had read over the details of the property beforehand and looked in to the previously sold prices as well as the current asking prices in the area. I didn’t intend to bid but went through the motions as I would have if I was going to to get the full experience. I had calculated that my top price for the property in question was to be £160,000. This was perhaps a little under what one could have gone up to as I was edging slighty on the safe side, but that’s the way I will play these things anyway especially in the early stages. The auction was Continue reading My first property auction Motorola announced today that it will launch a tender offer to acquire a controlling interest in Vertex Standard, the parent company of Yaesu. Upon successful completion of the tender offer and subsequent restructuring process, Motorola will own 80% of Vertex Standard and Tokogiken, a privately held Japanese company controlled by Jun Hasegawa, current president . . . → Read More: Motorola to acquire controlling interest in Vertex Standard (Yaesu) Sorry if you’re tired of hearing about ripoff Britain, but this has really got my goat! In the USA you can now get (From Amazon.com) the PS3 40GB Spider-Man Movie Pack for only $399.99, where as on Amazon UK we can get the plain PS3 40GB console on it’s own for £299.99 – does . . . → Read More: PS3 UK vs USA pricing – ripoff Britain Last month PC Pro wrote a hands-on review of the Asustek Eee PC, which is their interpretation of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC).
Spec-wise they are very reasonable, it runs an Intel Celeron M ULV 900Mhz processor, a 7″ 800×480 display, 256MB or 512MB of memory, 2GB or 4GB of storage Continue reading The £169 Laptop – On sale 1st November |
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