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IPv4 is so last century
A scary beast that lives in the Fens. Fenrir is the latest addition to the Mythic Beasts family. It’s a virtual machine in our Cambridge data centre which is running our blog. What’s interesting about...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi Zero: Not executing a trillion lines of PHP
A number of people noticed that Raspberry Pi had launched their $5 Pi Zero yesterday. We had advance warning that something was going to happen, even if we didn’t know exactly what. When the Pi2...
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Win a PiZero
Pi Zero, 2p for scale, not included with prize. Thanks to a recent visit to Pi Towers, we’re in possession of a very difficult to get hold of Raspberry Pi Zero. Within Mythic Beasts we don’t have an...
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Testing failure: Raspbian
Programmer art, just say no. If you’ve had a look at the Raspbian website today you’ll have noticed the big red !!!FAILOVER TEST!!! logo at the top right corner. That’s because today is officially...
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PiZero won!
Pi Zero, 2p for scale, not included with prize. Last week we started a competition to win a Pi Zero. We’ve had a small number of entries, half from school age people eligible to win, the other half...
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I did not go to the ball
@Mythic_Beasts heading to #trefbash2015 tonight? — Charlie Allom (@yeled) December 10, 2015 Last night was the annual TrefBash, a large party for people involved in the UK networking industry. Several...
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Decimal points are important
Ben at Raspberry Pi wanted to use his new vanity domain rpf.io, as a URL shortener rather than the URL of the common big services. The easy solution was to use an existing service on a paid account...
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The problem with the youth of today is hard work and excessive talent
Almost a decade ago in 2006 Eben showed off his Raspberry Pi protoype with the original aim being to improve the standards of computer science for Cambridge University Computer Science students. Four...
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Hosting the Raspberry Pi 3 launch, on a Raspberry Pi 3
Four years ago we sat on the phone while Eben Upton pushed the button to launch his educational computer, the Raspberry Pi, and we joined them on a fairly remarkable journey. “How do you sell and ship...
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Rebuilding Raspberry Pi
After the Raspberry Pi 2 launch in February 2015, we had a review of how to improve and scale the hosting setup for Raspberry Pi. There were two components that caused us pain during the Pi 2 launch:...
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Testing failure: Raspbian
Programmer art, just say no. If you’ve had a look at the Raspbian website today you’ll have noticed the big red !!!FAILOVER TEST!!! logo at the top right corner. That’s because today is officially...
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PiZero won!
Pi Zero, 2p for scale, not included with prize. Last week we started a competition to win a Pi Zero. We’ve had a small number of entries, half from school age people eligible to win, the other half...
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I did not go to the ball
@Mythic_Beasts heading to #trefbash2015 tonight? — Charlie Allom (@yeled) December 10, 2015 Last night was the annual TrefBash, a large party for people involved in the UK networking industry. Several...
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Decimal points are important
Ben at Raspberry Pi wanted to use his new vanity domain rpf.io, as a URL shortener rather than the URL of the common big services. The easy solution was to use an existing service on a paid account...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The problem with the youth of today is hard work and excessive talent
Almost a decade ago in 2006 Eben showed off his Raspberry Pi protoype with the original aim being to improve the standards of computer science for Cambridge University Computer Science students. Four...
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Hosting the Raspberry Pi 3 launch, on a Raspberry Pi 3
Four years ago we sat on the phone while Eben Upton pushed the button to launch his educational computer, the Raspberry Pi, and we joined them on a fairly remarkable journey. “How do you sell and ship...
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Rebuilding Raspberry Pi
After the Raspberry Pi 2 launch in February 2015, we had a review of how to improve and scale the hosting setup for Raspberry Pi. There were two components that caused us pain during the Pi 2 launch:...
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The little computer that did
At the end of March we migrated the Raspberry Pi website from a very big multi-core server to a tiny cluster of eight Raspberry Pi 3s. Here’s a bit more detail about how it worked. The Pi rack not...
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Without the hot air
It’s with great sadness we learned of the death of Prof Sir David MacKay, FRS. He taught three of the Mythic Beasts founders information theory in 1999–2000, a fascinating and stunningly well-lectured...
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Let’s Encrypt IPv6-only
Let’s Encrypt on a v6-only host One of the much requested features for Let’s Encrypt free SSL certificates is support for IPv6-only hosts. Whilst this is promised in the very near future we’re happy to...
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