Dropsafe

if only my lawn was emo … http://tinyurl.com/7ntod8 # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Via acb, if you ever wanted the lowdown on what a useless PoS platform Windows is, in terms of what it lets the programmer get away with and the (in)security it provides, you really need to read this – though I must admit the use of scheme is pretty cool; I bet he was talking…

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Argh the pain, make it stop! RT @adriana872 http://doncrowley.blogspot.com/2009/01/microsoft-stop-hating-us.html # This is a very good^H^H^H^H bad idea RT @Beaker: The Bacon Explosion: http://tinyurl.com/a5pvvq # Playing with Zones + ZFS/OpenSolaris – made an all-defaults zone, has very minimal root filesystem; How do I get it to inherit/add Apache? # RT: @bbart “This content requires flash” =…

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BBC NEWS | Technology | Dangerous coding errors revealed The US National Security Agency has helped put together a list of the world’s most dangerous coding mistakes. The 25 entry list contains errors that can lead to security holes or vulnerable areas that can be targeted by cyber criminals. If you are one of the…

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“When you’re on Interstate 90, in Montana, and you hit a 6% grade that’s 5 miles in length, I did 66 miles an hour on the bike – that’s enough to make you scream like a little girl.” Tony Adams, from the SL Tribune article, via Bentrider. The comments are enlightening about our culture.

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…you see this:

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A train of thought, brought on by having several “energy efficient, long life” bulbs die on me, within days of each other… In the future, everyone is going to have to use energy-efficient lightbulbs. These things are quite complex bits of technology – chips and all – but are disposable consumables Look at what happened…

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Bart gifted me an OLPC XO-1 to play with, and I’ve been updating it to use as a Netbook. I am running Teapot’s build of Xubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) on a 4Gb SD-card, and it’s a tad slow but it works well; it’s best to avoid video (and some audio) but everything else is fine. The…

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HELP OpenSolaris: How do you change kbd type to USA/UNIX? The S10 man pages suggest console-login as root + “kdmconfig”, but not possible! # OpenSolaris: more, not possible get text/tty login on console, not possible log in as root role; eeprom keyboard-layout=US-English failed… # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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http://tinyurl.com/a8gdxy – See Number 148 # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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Unstated observation: so if you don’t want to be found, switch your phone off… BBC NEWS | Technology | Google search finds missing child […] Since 2005, US law says that mobile phone providers must be able to locate 67% of callers within 100 metres and 95% of callers within 300 meters. This requirement has…

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