I founded my first set of companies when I was 23. It was 1999, notable both for the significance of the dot-com rush and the insignificance of Y2K, and there was plenty of opportunity for a young company to get contracts building The Next Whatever people were prepared to throw

I'm not the most avid jigsaw puzzle player you'll ever meet, nor do I pride myself in being a very good one. But I generally like games, and when somebody tricks me into working on a nice puzzle set I can end up spending a long time on it. My

This post starts with a warning: This isn't an in-depth treaty about systemd, but that's on purpose. First, no in-depth systemd post should be written this close to midnight, or you'll have bad dreams. And second, I've found that even just this tiny piece of knowledge of systemd has already

Why Dynamic DNS updates? The network at Async has multiple redundant upstream connections, and one of them is a domestic-grade cable link at 120Mbps. And like probably every other domestic cable provider, Virtua gives out dynamically allocated IPs via DHCP: our firewall (somewhat clunkily) bridges through a Humax HGR100R-L2 modem