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      John Dunning

      The lonely internet

      • Posted by John Dunning
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      • Date October 16, 2020
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      October 16, 2020
      6

      I had spent an hour in the bank with my dad, as he had to transfer some money. I couldn’t resist myself & asked… ”Dad, why don’t we activate your internet banking?””Why would I do that?” He asked… ”Well, then …

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      John Dunning

      Buffy: Vampire Slayer and Google Trailblazer

      • Posted by John Dunning
      • Categories Articles
      • Date October 4, 2020
      • Comments 0 comment
      October 4, 2020
      3

      According to Charles Arthur in his book Digital Wars, the first use of to google on television appeared in Buffy. On October 15, 2002, in the fourth episode of the show’s final season, the character Willow turns to the Buffy the vampire slayer and asks, “Have you googled …

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      John Dunning

      The real story of /etc

      • Posted by John Dunning
      • Categories Articles
      • Date July 15, 2020
      • Comments 0 comment
      July 15, 2020
      0

      Read the documentation and you get one story, go on a training course and you get another /etc is the nerve center of your system, it contains all system related configuration files in here or in its sub-directories Linux Filesystem …

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      John Dunning

      The Obfuscated Genius?

      • Posted by John Dunning
      • Categories Articles
      • Date September 19, 2019
      • Comments 0 comment
      September 19, 2019
      0

      The DP Manager “Some years ago I spent a week giving an in-house program design course at a manufacturing company in the mid-west of the United States. On the Friday afternoon it was all over. The DP Manager, who had …

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      John Dunning

      The US (and UK) Computer Industry is Dying

      • Posted by John Dunning
      • Categories Articles
      • Date June 24, 2015
      • Comments 0 comment
      June 24, 2015
      0

      I wouldn’t normally copy somebody else’s post in full but this message is so important and is also relevant to Tier 2 visa abuse here in the UK http://www.cringely.com/2015/06/24/the-u-s-computer-industry-is-dying-and-ill-tell-you-exactly-who-is-killing-it-and-why/ This is my promised third column in a series about the …

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      John Dunning

      Skunkworks

      • Posted by John Dunning
      • Categories Articles
      • Date June 6, 2014
      • Comments 0 comment
      June 6, 2014
      0

      A skunkworks project is a project developed by a small and loosely structured group of people who research and develop a project primarily for the sake of radical innovation.[1]The terms originated with Lockheed‘s World War II Skunk Works project.

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      John Dunning

      Why Management is Un-natural

      • Posted by John Dunning
      • Categories Articles
      • Date June 6, 2014
      • Comments 0 comment
      June 6, 2014
      0

      Management and big companies are un-natural.  Staff are more effective in small groups – and according to this article, there’s good reason for that:

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      John Dunning

      Apple Devices Hacked and Held For Ransom in Australia

      • Posted by John Dunning
      • Categories Articles
      • Date May 27, 2014
      • Comments 0 comment
      May 27, 2014
      0

      “Apparently iOS and OS X users are waking up to a message on their phones that says they’ve been locked out, with a brief messaging asking for money, about $50 from PayPal, for the account to be re-opened. It’s still …

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      John Dunning

      Managed Services Providers – Discrimination by Proxy

      • Posted by John Dunning
      • Categories Articles
      • Date February 21, 2014
      • Comments 0 comment
      February 21, 2014
      0

      Skills421 has recently tendered for and won Government project work directly.  Whilst this is great news, the concern with public sector work is the time it takes to get paid.  With the ongoing recession, the Government has mandated that small …

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      John Dunning

      Weaponised Nanotech to disable predators

      • Posted by John Dunning
      • Categories Articles
      • Date December 30, 2013
      • Comments 1 comment
      December 30, 2013
      1

      Christmas has been a great opportunity to catch up on Ted Talks and Technology news and one thing that struck me during this exploration of new frontiers is the massive potential for nanotechnology to be used to protect our banks …

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