Came across a well known issue with QUB_SEC and Android, so I decided to fix it. Basically, Android was bailing on a particular part of the TTLS Authentication scheme that is used by millions of workplace and academic RADIUS / AD secured wireless networks, and QUB is one of them. This Comment on the issue indicated that the problem had been fixed in the newly released 4.1.2 builds, and that we’d probably be waiting a while for the OTA updates… So I guess I’ll have to do it myself! ...

So Everything Everywhere are holding a press conference tomorrow… Rumours abound about device selections and other bits of juicy gossip (given the state of the global handset market… I’m not surprised), so this seemed like a good opportunity to rant. In Late August, OfCom, the UK’s communications regulator, gave the go-ahead to bring the planned 4G spectrum allocations forward to this year. In short, 4G is go! This was music to the ears of Everything Everywhere, and that’s not hyperbole. ...

Richard Matthew Stallman is a software developer and software freedom activist. Born in 1953, he attended Harvard starting in 1970 and graduated in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts in physics. From September 1974 to June 1975 he was a graduate student in physics at MIT. Disclaimer, I had very little to do with the organisation of this event, I’m just a PR guy in this case The Inimatible, parrot fancing, founder of the Free Software Foundation, and the originator of the GNU operating system is coming to Belfast on Monday the 17th September. ...

I am a pirate. I voyage across the root-zones in search for content. Movies available months before local DVD release in a format that my media centre laps up (mostly), I watch once, and don’t take up shelf space for years; TV shows via RSS that I watch at my leisure; and, on the rare occasion that I want to ‘Game’ and not feel like an idiot, I torrent. ...

I’ve been reading the fantastic ‘Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainance’, and it is simply fantastic on any level. This isn’t a sales pitch, but it got me thinking and what I have been trying to accomplish with a range of projects and attitudes over the years. I want to cultivate higher Quality people. I want to contribute to people’s development and growth. I want to do this for the pure and simple reason that, to me, individual change is the only path to long-term change and cultural improvement. ...

_Never having to think about updates again _ is a good thing in my head, so here’s how to set up Unattended Upgrades under Ubuntu for fun and profit. $ sudo apt-get install unattended-upgrades $sudo vim /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades Uncomment the line // "${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-updates"; $ sudo vim /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/10periodic Make it look like this APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1"; APT::Periodic::Download-Upgradeable-Packages "1"; APT::Periodic::AutocleanInterval "7"; APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";

Biblio Sorbi, Toni, Dio De Capua, Rossi TERA, Genova Grade 1 What is this work about? Collaborative target tracking behaviours What are the main findings of this work? No surprise; two AUVs with a comms link are better at tracking, and that tracking is easier when the targets are stupid/random. What gap in our understanding does this work fill? Highlights MLO tracking operations, and provides insight into globally aware control systems ...

Biblio Carreras, Batlle, Ridao, and Roberts; An Overview on Behaviour based methods for AUV control, Girona, Spain What is this work about? A review and analysis of four AUV behaviour based reactionary control architectures, presenting four control architectures; Scheme, Subsumption, PDL, and Action Selection Dynamics, i.e. cooperative (schema, PDL) and competitive (Sub, ASD) What are the main findings of this work? Competitive models are often easier to design as only one behaviour is resident at a time, however this leads to ’jaunty’ and often sub-optimal results, as in this case where authors say the resultant pats for both competitive models are non-optimal ...

Hold on, what? I attended a Postgraduate Training event over the weekend, ‘Starting to Write in the First year of your PhD’, presented by the brilliantly wise and entertaining Daniel Soule. What I expected: How to start writing your thesis in the first year of your PhD What I got: Start writing in the first year of your PhD, for your own sanity and academic security Now, depending on your academic background, these may sound exactly the same. They’re not. This post summarises the ‘best bits’ of the very very good course. ...

PCap files are a pain; weird format, difficult to parse viserally even if you have the ‘right’ tools handy. Wouldn’t it be easier to be able to ‘see’ the network flow, like it is in all the textbooks? Well now you can! In playing with NS-3, I came across this problem, and googled for a solution. Now here’s an end-to-end ‘I have pcap files and want to make them pretty’ solution. ...