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How will users of Apple devices in Europe respond to greater autonomy (and responsibility)?
When the Romans withdrew from Britain, the Britons left behind had lived with under the protection of their occupiers for centuries and were unequipped to defend themselves against raiders from the north (Scotland). Recognising their own vulnerability, the Britons reached out to Saxon mercenaries (Hengist and Horsa) for protection. As a consequence, Britain was occupied
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THM: Advent of Cyber 2023
Note: Images used on this page were created in MS Paint with Cocreator. What is Advent of Cyber? The Advent of Cyber is TryHackMe’s annual free Christmas themed event. The event takes cybersecurity enthusiasts through challenges that follow a fun narrative. Can you help Santa’s top elf in the field of cybersecurity and the Best
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Looking back: TM129 Technologies in practice
The three blocks of TM129 were much more distinctly separated than in other modules. Starting with the networking block on Cisco’s Net Academy, then following that up with an Operating Systems block where we gained practical experience using a Raspberry Pi Linux virtual machine, and finishing on robotics where we programmed our virtual robots through
Read MoreLooking back: TM112 Introduction To Computing And Information Technology 2
I studied the TM112 module concurrently with the maths module MU123, though the maths module lasted a little longer than TM112. This wasn’t as hard to balance as you might expect, but there were times when I had to prioritise one module over the other. I’ve now finished both modules, though just recently got my
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Learning experience: A typo in fstab
I made an error during an activity in my studies that, in other circumstances, could have been a disaster. Here’s what happened and here’s what I learned. This took place today while studying a topic in the Open University TM129 – Technologies in practice module. The topic is on disk management and the activity related
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BAE Capture the Flag
Back in February, I participated in my first live capture the flag (CTF) contest. It was presented by BAE with the Open University. Because of the remote nature of the OU, the CTF was online only with no campus for students to get together. Teams were also randomly allocated to make it more accessible for
Read MoreLooking back: TM111 Introduction to computing and information technology 1
TM111 was my first Open University module and I was very pleased back in October last year when I got my module result back and was awarded a distinction. At the time, I posted a review of the module on my original blog. That post was probably a bit long winded for a simple review,
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