Ideas – wally's blog

Traffic light safety feature

Posted on August 19, 2010April 12, 2020 by wally

While driving home yesterday, I encountered a large round-about on the edge of Bury (where the A14 slip roads converge), where the lights were literally offline. Confusion seemed to be reigning. Nobody knew what to do. Some people just pulled out blindly – treating it as though the lights were “on green”. Others simply waited, […]

Businesses – sell your unused bandwidth!

Posted on May 1, 2010April 12, 2020 by wally

During a recent conversation with a colleague at work, it began to dawn on me the sheer wasted bandwidth small and large businesses sit on during the “out of working hours”. I’ve no idea if anything like this has been done before – if it has, then fair play. If not, then I think it’d […]

Designing a “perfect” home router

Posted on May 14, 2009April 12, 2020 by wally

It’s been on my mind for some time now … possibly due to my work (where I am interacting with “technical” people who even themselves struggle) – there must surely be a “near perfect” home router design, something which anyone who has used the Internet on their home computer can install and configure. I currently believe […]

Window Manager for Tablet users

Posted on May 31, 2007April 12, 2020 by wally

Having since bought my shiney new Wacom 2 tablet (which incidently works perfectly under XOrg, Ubuntu has it configured out of the box) I’ve started to wonder if there’s more use for it than just graphics editing. If you’ve never used a graphics tablet before, I encourage you to do so at some point. Once […]