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Citi bank choir

I saw the __FreakyClown__ talk about physical penetration testing for buildings, and since then I’ve found myself looking at the buildings and CCTV around where I work and shop and so on. Anyway while I was at the gym tonight while I was on the treadmill and it was one of those treadmills that have a TV screen, and it was showing The Choir : Sing While you work : Series 2 : Citi. I didn’t have my headphones with me but I was able to see that programme, and I think that the fact that I was only viewing the programme I started to think about Citi group as a penetration testing challenge. And it occurred to me that programs such as this might provide useful information for the penetration tester.
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Mike Dec 4, 2013

Security, Technology

Reordering pages using the Quickly Ebook Template

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One of the requirements for the Ubuntu Quickly Ebook template is the ability to re-order chapters. I had worked out a mechanism to re-order the toc (table of Content) entries for chapters, meaning that ordering of the ebook chapters could be performed through an XML modification. That’s great – but it causes a problem for the web interface – primarily that the table of content seen in the web edit would need to be updated every time we added a chapter, and the page ordering would need to be read from there. This would have meant potentially quite a lot of disk activity just to add a chapter. Imagine : I want to add a chapter to my ebook – but that would also mean that I would have to update the content.opf file accordingly. And add to this the complexity of what could happen if I roll back the book, but maintain the new chapters. I suddenly realised that the reordering of chapters is simple – all I need to do is to update the date modified for the chapter files, and that way I can be sure that all chapters are written in the correct order, as they are read in date time order. It automatically ensure that new chapters are added at the end of the book – it’s a a simple solution that requires no alteration to the existing files.

The issue now is that bzr doesn’t track these file changes. I think what I will do is following re-ordering of the pages, I will rebuild the content tables – which will re-create the metadata for chapter ordering… That should allow bzr to recognise the new page order

Mike Nov 22, 2013

Technology

Captain America’s been torn apart – now He’s a court jester with a broken heart

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It’s cheesy to quote Guns N Roses lyrics – but the current state of our first avenger does indeed look like he’s been torn apart.

Christmas challenge – Gingerbread man of the year

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So While shopping around the range I found a lovely little kit for a Christmas tree decoration :

Sew your own Gingerbread man kit.

Web of Fear / Enemy of the World – FOUND!!!!!

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After months of twitter rumours, surfacing and being denied before resurfacing again, we finally now know that 11 missing episodes have been recovered.

This is a good thing.

You can watch them now on ITunes, They have been digitally remastered and look like they were broadcast yesterday.

This is a good thing.

However this week the hype surrounding this was unbelievable. We where told on Monday of an announcement on Wednesday which got pushed back to Thursday afternoon which then was pushed further back to Midnight (presumably to make the first edition print of newspapers Friday morning). Attendees at the event where then issued with a press embargo – which seemed to have been broken by the northern echo early and finally after months of rumours, denials, counter rumours, announcements, delays and embargoes we know its the Web of Fear and the Enemy of the World.

which leaves me a little deflated, earlier stories had the number recovered stored at 106 (never happen, that would be ALL the missing stories) which was then revised down to ‘dozens’ before we realise its not even a dozen.

But let’s think about this for a second- we got a complete new second Doctor story, and the number of remaining missing episodes is now under 100! maybe this is what we should be concentrating on.

I cannot wait for DVD releases of these. I could watch them on ITunes but I really don’t like that program very much. I prefer Songbird and don’t like the idea of buying songs/films over ITunes. I get the distinct feeling that most of the money I would be spending on ITunes would end up in Apples coffers.

Of course it will take a while for everyone’s records to be updated and for Wikipedia to be accurate (right now it still says Web of Fear is incomplete). But once it is done, I would hope that BBC would look at classic episodes missing only 1 episode and consider them as candidates for animation.It would now make more sense to animate the final missing episode of the Enemy of the World to give us 2 new Troughton releases! I hope in the future the Beeb, instead of having embargoes that people inevitably break, instead have a late night press conference. Yes it’s hard on any guests having to hang around until way after midnight, but it means your secret is released to the press when you want it to. I would point as well that there is still no footage of the San Diego ComicCon trailer, which seems to mean that a load of doctor who fans are better at maintaining professional silence that paid journalists- Or how about a live streamed event next time? I don’t know its a difficult circle to square, you want a coordinated release for your news, but its hard when everyone and his dog are live tweeting.

Again it is thanks to Philip Morris that these episodes have been unearthed . I hope that some day there will be more !

of you want to see how good the footage actually is? ok heres the trailers

Dave Oct 11, 2013

Dr who, TweetUpdate

Fixing broken canvas references in Synfig

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I have been working on synfig stage, and have logged the following bug on the Synfig forum, and in the bug tracker.

Synfig has a rather nifty mechanism for creating reference object – this is great if you want to create parts of a character, and re-use them throughout the life of the animation. Creating a reference canvas is pretty simple, and the nice thing about it is that once the reference canvas is created, you can swap and change the referenced element from your model through a nice canvas picker. Except that the feature is a bit broken.

Assemble Avengers

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About 2-3 weeks ago I was walking with Rach through Merry Hill, when we spotted that the ModelZone store there was closing down. So on a whim, I went in and
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Mike Sep 29, 2013

Assemble Avengers