Parallelpoints · A personal notebook
Writing about engineering, computing and the details that make things work.
Upgraded PoOS recently and lost some features I iused to have…I wanted my laptop to suspend when I press the power button, and turn the screen off when I close the lid. COSMIC’s settings don’t allow me …
Newly Static I have been wanting to get away from wordpress for a long time - I don’t need it and the maintenance hassle is too large. A year or so ago, I used hugo to port the existing pages to a statically served …
QNX 45 years on A really interesting history of QNX - quite a long read, but I enjoyed the retrospective. Interesting to see that the Canadian government was funding the development of an educational computer starting in …
“We take your security seriously” - how many times has this been said in the aftermath of a breach. And how many times has it seemed a little… hollow? Here are a couple of examples of really taking …
Introduction For designers of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, cybersecurity is a necessary provision. This series of posts will review what I regard as the basic fundamental items which should be included in the design …