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Enigma replica ‘homage to heroes’
BBC It has taken 10 years and about 60 volunteers, among them retired computer experts and telecommunications engineers, to rebuild piece-by-piece a replica of the Turing Bombe – the vital machine which cracked the Nazis’ Enigma Code. Against impossible odds the electro-mechanical device enabled cryptographers to decode more than 3,000 German messages in a day,…
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Wales: Abandoned mountain village found
BBC The ruins of an extensive mountain village have been found on the slopes of the Sugar Loaf, near Abergavenny. Scouts working with the British Trust for Conservation Volunteers have spent a week hacking back brambles to reveal the 25-house village. It is thought the Y Graig settlement in Glangrwyne, Powys, was abandoned in the…
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Computer Forensics Experts for a Commodore c64 ?
Guardian The investigation into the kidnapping of Natascha Kampusch has been complicated by the discovery of an obsolete computer in the house where she was held, Austrian police said today. Officers have been surprised to find that the kidnapper, Wolfgang Priklopil, a communications technician, appeared to have relied exclusively on a Commodore 64. The beige-coloured…
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The Stanley FUBAR (no, really)
Gives you an appetite for destruction. Me want. But they trademarked FUBAR! Stanley FatMax(R) Xtreme(TM) Fubar(TM) Functional Utility Bar 4-in-1 tool for prying, splitting, board bending and striking jobs One piece forged steel bar for increased durability Two-tiered jaws for grabbing common dimensional lumber & decking Beveled nail slot for pulling & prying nails Textured…
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The State of the Bike
quote: “we’re told the bike looks like a total write-off, but we can’t say for certain until we get the official engineers’ report.” hohum.
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Results of Consultation on my Knee
Well GlennW just dropped me off from our having a nice Fish’n’Chips (Eco-nuts: I had Huss) after my key X-Ray and knee consultation with Dr Rossiter this evening. Firstly regarding the chest: My rib cage is improved; I managed to lie on my side for whilst some lumbar and rib x-rays were taken, and was…
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Changing backup character in Textedit and/or Nautilus
Dear Lazyweb… Hi Alec, this is a cheeky tech-support question about Gnome 2 running under Solaris 9. I’ve been searching all over Sun.com and gnome.org, as well as the local filesystems to resolve this one, all without success. Google hasn’t yet been prompted to return anything usable either, despite a number of attempts. The venerable…
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Cambodia bans adultery, cites it as causing corruption
Yahoo! PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Cambodia’s parliament passed a law Friday which could send adulterers to jail for up to a year. The vote prompted a walkout by opposition lawmakers who said the law carried echoes of the Khmer Rouge and the Taliban in a country which should be tackling poverty and corruption instead of…
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Steganography is a fashion…
Gosh! Let’s hope the terrorists don’t pick up on this one… Britain cracked WW2 secret “dress code” LONDON (Reuters) – German spies hid secret messages in drawings of models wearing the latest fashions in an attempt to outwit Allied censors during World War Two, according to British security service files released on Monday. Nazi agents…