Newsflash: Steve Riley has left the building!

Sheer bloody madness.  First Jesper leaves, now Steve has been re-structured out of a job.  First heard Steve (and Jesper) speak at TechEd 2005 in Brisbane.  I think the talk was “SEC301 – Common security screw-ups we have known and seen.”  Best darn security presentation I’ve ever sat though.  Was worth it for that [...]

A resistor is an ...

electrical component which reduces the flow of electrical current.

Plain old wire has a built-in resistance, which is why gold is preferred for some wiring applications.  Darn expensive though.

If you think the world has problems with thieves taking the copper from overhead electrical wires, and telephone cables; think what would happen if [...]