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@GeekChickUK Likewise meeting you! Looking fwd to Bsides #

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Oh dear. http://bit.ly/fmGk5s thanks, I needed a laugh. # re: @ceri: So "mekmitasdigoat" isn't a biblical reference then? # @ChetWisniewski @duckblog Am doing a post re: #Skype based on yr podcast http://goo.gl/n3Ugq; So wd #Sophos recommend Skype to dissidents? # @ChetWisniewski @duckblog If – as it sounded to me – #Skype is fit for dissident…

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RT @ioerror: Economist article "Unorthodox links to the internet" worth reading: http://www.economist.com/node/18386151 # It's so much fun & so educational, each day, to grab an espresso & scroll up backwards through @zooko & @ioerror's most recent conversation # @paddy_o_c "Libyans are firing guns and sounding car horns in defiance" (PAUSE) FX: MACHINE GUNS (PAUSE) FX:…

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Today I Learned: Complex Regular Expressions can be much much much less efficient than Simple Ones + Brute Force http://goo.gl/7n0Is # good heavens, i'm number 3 on http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ # New: Incidentally, you know why it's called "grep" ? http://bit.ly/hdooPF # 15th June 2011 will be the 20th Anniversary of the release of Crack to the…

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Facebook did something horrible to their user interface recently, perhaps trying to make it more Twitterish by submitting a comment as soon as a user presses the Return key. Daniel Wood, on his blog, wrote and posted a small Chrome extension that looks sane and which was supposed to solve the issue; I downloaded it…

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$ re=root # re = “regular expression” $ echo g/$re/p | ed – /etc/passwd # spot the command name root:*:0:0:System Administrator:/var/root:/bin/sh … …in case you’re ever hacked remotely logged into a system where grep has been removed but ed remains; wrap it in a shellscript and you’re all set. Similarly more can be lashed-up using…

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@webmink Because the news has already hit the professional US writers who are free to publish fact rather than opinion. 😛 # t-shirts and the fine art of polemic: http://bit.ly/gHm9gK # Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media | Technology | guardian.co.uk – http://goo.gl/CyrMB # so many #lulz # @beggaboo85 In a sense it's…

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Introduction Some time ago I had a phone interview to test my programming skills and after a few basic questions with some live coding – how would you implement memcpy()? how would you implement memmove() – and after an expansion for exponentiation that was out of my league without consulting Knuth – the challenge was…

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net.fogies.old, represent http://abstrusegoose.com/strips/nostalgic_old_guy_is_nostalgic.png # Bought stuff from Chain Reaction? Check your statements… http://bit.ly/gVR4U0 # so #astronomy #nerdy it's great http://madartlab.com/2011/03/16/astronom-os/ # Saab Automobile hires Aussie blogger who 'saved' the company – The Local – http://goo.gl/7MeQq # Sigh RT @darguell Sun.com, the twelfth oldest domain on the internet, will be decommissioned on June 1st http://t.co/FVXVJE2 via…

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If you put a TARDIS inside another TARDIS, is the innermost one's inside bigger than the inside outside it? #matryoshkavtardis # @chrisgerhard If we're talking about the BBC, it would work. # The beginning of critical popular discussion of #Skype security http://bit.ly/fCE1zO – if you have issues, questions or comments # New: Five Posts at…

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Yeah, really. The word-processing metaphor will go down well with users on mobiles, Kindles…

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