Kate's Comment

Nick and I have built a market-leading, multi-award-winning, multi-million dollar hosting/cloud IaaS company using entirely open source software and an “automate everything” philosophy. We have recently attained a cross-government CESG accreditation for our service under the G-Cloud project, incorporating the open source hypervisor Xen, even though Xen itself was not certified. Here are my views on why open source is actually more secure and reliable than alternatives.

In order to give BOB all the capabilities I need more than the 4 standard sensor inputs. To that end I ordered two HiTechnic sensor multiplexers, one powered one (the one in front of him in the picture) which can do any sensor and one for just touch sensors (the one connected in the picture, distinguished by a lack of…

Over Christmas I have been pondering on the question of what the next big thing in technology will be, specifically in 2012. That question is perhaps especially poignant since we recently we lost one of our generation’s great innovators, Steve Jobs. When I recently took delivery of my magic mouse I was struck by how aptly it was named. If…