Hackerfruehstueck

It is really my version of the German Bauernfruehstueck, yesterday the local hackerspace had their new year’s party and “official opening event”, shame on me but I could not go…. hope I’ll be able to meet some of the guys there.I hope this helps reco… [...]

Thinkpad X40 and openSUSE 11.2

Note to self… and anyone interested… Installing openSUSE 11.2 in a IBM thinkpad X40:- edit partitions yourself (don’t trust a computer to do a man’s job), create primary partition, don’t format as ext4 use ext3 instead(see update notes below), moun… [...]

SolarLight (4) – gEDA, PCB and first corrections

It has been a while since my last post, but I’ve been busy… not so much on electronics projects, but projects of other kind… Nevertheless I’ve been working a bit on SolarLight.The prototype was working to light the LED but some other bits of the co… [...]

HO train action ideas

A collection of thoughts on things that go bump in the night on the train set. HO Action – Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . Page 1 of 3 Loading – Unloading . . . . . . . . . . . Page 1 of 3 Granular [Coal, gravel, Wood chips,... [...]

Why is 3-D Secure a single sign-on system?

Since the blog post on our paper Verified by Visa and MasterCard SecureCode: or, How Not to Design Authentication, there has been quite a bit of feedback, including media coverage. Generally, commenters have agreed with our conclusions, and there have been some informative contributions giving industry perspectives, including at Finextra. One question which has appeared a [...] [...]