Computer are very complex

Maps are cool.

Computers are now very complex, that Anandtech article really blew my mind. Mike Ash's article on 64bit arm has this the same insane sort of detail that the Anand Tech article does. Computers are cool.

Printing code with Enscript

I need to read some complicated tcp code. Being able to scribble all over code makes it a lot easier for me to follow the flow of what is happening.

enscript -2 -r -Ec -o - tcp_cong.c | ps2pdf - tcp_cong.pdf

I tried, but I couldn't get colour to work. In the end I don't really care if it is on paper.

Stripe now takes Bitcoins

I am a big fan of stripe, recently using them for 57north's MakeIt-Glo workshop . The payment was smooth and easy to use, we didn't hear about any issues with stripe from any of the attendee's either.

Bitcoin I am still unsure of. I would love to make £1000's from idle speculation, but I haven't been able to buy it from anywhere other than people in the real world.

Being able to use both together can only be seen as a good thing, the more services that start to take bitcoin the better. Services like stripe that are genuinely legitimate and have good standing go a way to remove a lot of the alarmism around the currency.

Tarsnap is one of my favourite services on the internet. If you are looking for secure small scale off site backup I can't think of anything better.

These guys are lucky they can walk.

The decapping of the 3DS chip is the sort of reverse engineer that just amazes me. The author mentions Bunnie's Book as a source of inspiration and I have to agree. Bunnie's book operates well above the level of chip decapping, but it gives you a window into an entire world of engineering that is usually hidden. Last year Bunnie released his book for free in memory of Aaron Swartz.

Bunnie is really cool guy and a hero of hackers around the world. Amoung other projects he is making the ultimate engineers laptop .

Atari used to 'make' printers

It is a rare day that I remember markdown link syntax.