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links for 2008-02-22
Advertisement. « Dr. Boli’s Celebrated Magazine. Dr Boli’s Celebrated Operating System (tags: funny linux)
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Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys
YouTube – Lest We Remember: Cold Boot Attacks on Encryption Keys Slightly populist but worthwhile video about attacks on crypto keys held in powered-off RAM; always remember folks, that when your plaintext is un-necessary, bzero() it before releasing the page or exiting…
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Airport Security ftw!
Airport Security ftw! Originally uploaded by sirbrett84 Adriana pointed me at this – the picture says it all, really… 🙂
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links for 2008-02-21
The Screen Savers! – Thermite PC (tags: thermite harddrive datadestruction)
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Haggis for dinner…
A fine Macsween’s Haggis for 50p at Waitrose led to a dinner of: Smoked Haddock Soup Green Pea and Ham Soup (with extra Black Forest smoked ham) Soft French Country Cheese Haggis (with lots of lovely pepper), Oatcakes, and a goodly dram of SMWS 54.14 single cask malt Absolutely fantastic combination of flavours, especially the…
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Hand-wringing About American Culture – Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge? – New York Times
Mmm. Hand-wringing About American Culture – Are Americans Hostile to Knowledge? – New York Times But now, Ms. Jacoby said, something different is happening: anti-intellectualism (the attitude that “too much learning can be a dangerous thingâ€) and anti-rationalism (“the idea that there is no such things as evidence or fact, just opinionâ€) have fused in…
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links for 2008-02-16
Heere Bigynneth the Tale of the Asse-Hatte. Well, I think it’s funny… (tags: funny humor islam politics) Mark Fiore’s Animated Cartoon Site The spies who love you, and if you don’t believe them, you’re supporting terrorism… (tags: flash humor politics Security) Bear Attack bear attack photos (tags: photos funny bear) Fare Class Codes : V-Flyer:…
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Sun Partner University 2008 – Fulda, Germany – Photos!
I spent Monday and Tuesday spent in Fulda, Germany with Sun’s CMT sales team, at the Sun Partner University; wonderful to meet the team there, lotsa fun and chat. Video of my presentation should be forthcoming so long as I can fix the audio.
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Tool-free Field Repairs
Nokia Fix Originally uploaded by alecmuffett On a recent trip the power cable frayed internally and broke, so I broke it properly (very important) and then did a temporary splice so I could charge the phone… It got me home.
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links for 2008-02-15
Dark May Be King, but Milk Chocolate Makes a Move – New York Times Now, some chocolatiers are fighting back, with expensive, suave “dark milk†chocolates that reinvent milk chocolate by increasing its cacao content, reducing its sweetness and carefully refining it to give it the snap and velvet of dark. (tags: chocolate food) Skalnaté…
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Open the pod-bay doors, HAL…
IMG_6035 Originally uploaded by alecmuffett …okay, so it’s from one of Sun’s Blackbox machines, but try convincing me that the designer didn’t have that in mind…
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Robert Burnham, Jr. – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sad. Back in 1983-ish, I had to save up my pocket money so that I could cycle to WH Smith, where over the course of a few months they located (on microfiche) and ordered my three volumes of Burnham’s Celestial Handbook. The British astronomical scene knew almost nothing of Burnham, the canon on this side…