RaspberryPi mirror

February 24th, 2012 by

We’ve long been drinking partners of Eben & Liz who are building the Raspberry Pi ultra-cheap Linux machine which will hopefully breed the next generation of employees for Mythic Beasts. We’ve got secret plans for what we’re going to do with the one that’s on its way to us – to be revealed in a future blog post. Today, in addition to donating all the bandwidth for the main Raspberry Pi website, we’ve added a mirror for Raspberry Pi image downloads using one of our virtual servers. It’s got a full gigabit of IPv4 & IPv6, so download away.

Actually it is rocket science

February 13th, 2012 by

Five years ago we lost a good friend and founder of Mythic Beasts, Chris Lightfoot. In addition to his many public achievements we remember some of the smaller and less well documented experiments. The fan assisted barbeque that had a cooking range of several metres. The hot air balloon that was equally effective at setting fire to fences. The never yet satisfactorily explained quantum effects in the Theory of Asymptotic Washing Up.

Spurring on that traditional english eccentricity and hopefully providing a little inspiration to the next generation of super villans we’ve just agreed to donate a little server to providing hosting for Cambridge University Spaceflight. We’d like to think that in a universe where Chris’ waveform had collapsed differently he’d watch a rocket launch and associated datastream with a hidden sense of excitement before correctly pointing out ‘Now you have Two problems’.