There is a tech scene in Exeter for sure, check out these:

- https://techexeter.uk - they've been running events for many years now, 1500 members and monthly meetups.

- https://bsidesexeter.co.uk - Infosec events - some members formerly of the local DEFCON group (those events were fun).

- Shameless plug https://novaparty.org - Annual demoscene event (this year will be 13-15th June) run in collaboration with Tech Exeter.

Would Exeter be a good location, in comparison to the home counties, to set up a startup where most employees WFH 90% of the time?

I really like the area, and my preferred locations in Oxon & Cambs are getting incredibly expensive in terms of real estate, which doesn't make sense in case of WFH.

A customer checks in and is given a towel with a customer specific RFID attached. If at the point the customer checks out and the towel is not in the room, it is assumed to be missing or stolen.

Er, no. Have you been to a hotel? They don't normally give you a single towel for your entire stay. The hotel changes the towels every day. Bulk RFID scanning during laundry lets them keep track of how many towels have gone wandering and individually track how many times specific towels have been laundered, which is probably useful information for managing towel quantities in bulk. I don't think tracking down and identifying individual towel thiefs is generally the idea, though I guess you can detect towels in places they are not meant to be (such as in their suitcases on the way out of the lobby).

Which is the same as if a non RFID'd towel is missing from the room.

This doesn't prevent someone from just taking a pool towel to their room and then putting it in their suitcase.

Why would you promote this so early with a site devoid of content? Maybe it would be better to delete this submission until you have something substantial to show.

To measure the level of interest in the product, I guess. If there are enough signups, he will actually write the book.

From the submission history, it appears that the OP is a fan of docker, so it's likely the site was shared with that in mind, rather than him/her being the author of the linked content.

Yep I'm just a fan and minor contributor to Docker. Thought it was interesting to see a book so early but I do agree it's probably too early. Docker is changing fast. Version 0.5 should likely be out today.

Great initiative! I'm a big fan of starting with books when I'm learning something new as they usually have a better narrative and deeper explanation than the docs and 'getting started' guides do. Maybe this could be written using github with pull requests and stuff when things change? Open sourced books rocks. ;)

If you are looking for an open source docker book, check out https://github.com/kencochrane/docker-tutorial I'm building a Docker Guidebook, that I hope to release as a free ebook.

It is on github, and pull requests are welcome. It is currently written for Docker 0.5. I will keep it up to date, and when we hit 1.0 I'll look at getting some hard copies made, if there is a demand.

I still need to pick a license, not sure what is best for a book, open to suggestions.

Neat! Great to have an ecosystem of content starting to grow. The Creative Commons license chooser is a good way to go: http://creativecommons.org/choose/. And their "before licensing" page is pretty good too: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Before_Licensing.

I was disappointed when I clicked through to OP's submission. As with the Flynn post yesterday, I'm glad to see at least he's not the only game in town. Unfortunately I am not able to reach github right now. The isup.me site says I'm alone in that. Does anyone else have this problem now?

CC-BY IMO, as a content license it most closely matches the ASL that Docker is released under.

I can't find anything complete but you might want to check out this link from the Archive Team:

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Twitter

This is just what I was looking for. Thanks!

Out of mere curiosity I tried the old Coral Cache link technique; the service is still going!

http://www.nirandfar.com.nyud.net/2012/05/strange-sex-habits...

I have felt for a long time that Raspberry Pi would be something far beyond the scope of education and could well be re-purposed as a super-economical Arduino equivalent, complete with its own ecosystem of add-on boards, enclosures, power supplies and applications.

Could I see myself getting at least one? Most definitely. I'd pay double for what it offers, and all my hacker friends agree. There's so much we'd love to dig into, set-top boxes, surveillance, emulation and gaming, jukeboxes, audio synthesis, demoscene productions... it's just a fantastic platform I can't wait to get my hands on.

I think they may well deliver on this regardless of any scepticism, although over time it will be at least exciting to see what kind of community is developed.

My only slight concern is whether it will encroach on Broadcom's business too much, perhaps they will constrain orders to set amounts so commercial applications are prohibited, or at least artificially constrained and referred further up the supply chain. That said, it does open up the market more for a similar device.

I do appreciate the fact it is a relatively static specification though - write once, run everywhere is a great place to be.

Just to confirm, you cannot purchase this from the United Kingdom either at this time.