Dropsafe

A quick plug for http://m.traintimes.org.uk/ by @dracos – if you want to check train timetables from a phone, it's practically perfect # Looking for opinions on Cloud.com and its Cloud OS – apparently its #CloudStack is "IaaS and Downloadable and Open Source" #cloudcomputing # @bensummers I lean towards event-based OTP because time is potentially more…

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work is rather fun, so far 🙂 # @ramtopsrac Very pleasant day visiting http://www.oneis.co.uk/ and very impressed with their technology. #

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Amazon introduces "Dedicated Instance" Cloud. Isn't that just hosting, but with an extra layer of indirection? http://bit.ly/geJ1RF # "Podcasts and Videos for the bored Security Geek" @computerworlduk #unscrewingsecurity #security http://goo.gl/cI8qi # @mappingbabel So it's hosting plus Amazon added value ? And you can dev on EC2 and then host without modification ? # Japan Earthquake:…

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Here’s an example URL: scheme://host.domain.tld/path/file.ext This matches most of the URLs that you will ever encounter on the Web; don’t nitpick it too much – there can be hanging directories, portnumbers, user:password@host… additions and even full-blown URIs, but overall it’s a pretty good example. But there’s an open problem – the URL syntax does a…

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going round the house trying to remember where there may be clocks left unshifted to summer time # #VirtualBox crashes #Ubuntu guest on OSX – the linux image idles, sleeps, and the VM crashes on wakeup # I've heard it pointed out twice today: "Real" anarchists would be happy to see an end to state…

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Can someone plz tell me if they now do Ethernet over the same cable as HDMI audio/video, & if "Ethernet HDMI" cables are distinct from HDMI? # HDMI http://bit.ly/9AIWm8 sounds like HDMI ethernet is a standard; same cost rules should apply, though. # RT @EFF: Microsoft denies intentionally blocking HTTPS; secure Hotmail onceagain available in…

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Caffeine obtained, chickens liberated, recycling bin yet to go out, and then there's the cake stand at the W.I. hut. Good morning everyone. # Is it me or has the #VirtualBox Media Manager dialogue been reduced in function? Was expecting to be able to create images, etc. # I always thought Liz Taylor was both…

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.@r4today John Humphrys says "Everyone can remember/the 60s"; jokes aside, his comment explains a lot about the problem with politics today # New: Identifying net.censorship or shutdown via Unsolicited Internet Traffic from Libya http://bit.ly/fssf5p # @caalie Apparently you don't follow me, so I can't reply to you 😛 # BOOM BOOM BOOM from the ranges.…

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Absolutely fascinating: In this article we discuss another type of Internet measurement data that can be useful in monitoring macroscopically visible Internet events: unsolicited packets destined to unused address space. Similar to the notion of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, this Internet “background noise” of unsolicited packets consists of packets sent by misconfigured hosts, hosts that…

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Hmm… http://www.pcg.org.uk or http://www.fsb.org.uk or other? #freelance #it #consultant #advice #please # .@BBCLauraK When are they going to get real and have a red leather upholstered USB stick for the #Budget # @jilliancyork #Websense have twice classified my blog as "hacking" – it's a pain and incomprehensibly fine grained: http://bit.ly/h3m2Jx # "Things to do in…

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