Tesco UK offering PCs preloaded with Ubuntu

Tesco UK is now offering PC's preloaded with Ubuntu

• Intel Celeron PC for £139
• AMD 3600 for £189

Active Merchant talk to Ruby Ireland

I gave a talk at Ruby Ireland about Active Merchant, which is a ruby library for payment processing.

Slides

Here's the slides.

Unfortunately slideshare doesn't support animations so the callouts on the slides all show at once.

Sample Code

Click here for the sample application code

Ubuntu 7.10 - Gutsy Gibbon countdown

Eircom Wireless Security Flaws

I mentioned before about the lack of security in eircom's wifi solution. They use to have a single WEP key for all routers by default.

Now, the key is generated at installation but they've been really dumb in how they do it. James Galvin blogged about it and it was picked up by Damien. Paul Dolan put a page together to generate the key.