Dropsafe

For reasons that I shaln’t explain here, this musical has been a cult hit amongst some of the security geeks inside Sun for the past few months. Details Seat pricesUp to 27 June 2006: Mon to Fri eves and all mats: £30.00 to £10.00 Saturday evenings: £35.00 to £15.00From 28 June 2006: Mon to Thurs…

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So I was riding back from visiting friends in Preston and pulled into Sandbach Services for a rest stop; I pulled up under a petrol station awning, stripped-off my lid, and swigged some water. Some distance behind me I heard a honk, and saw a bus heading for the HGV park-up area, being gesticulated-at by…

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If it’s raining today, and you’ld rather be out on the road: http://www.dustydavis.com/ Best line: “Camping in the rain in Minnesota. Bringing all this stuff into the tent is what earned me an introduction to a bear the next night.” …and… http://theadventuresofboz.blogspot.com/ Boz does South America. The whole thing’s worth reading.

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I’m eating my refrigerator. Tonight for dinner I had elicoidali pasta in a fish pesto prepared from bottarga di tonno (pulverised tuna roe) and lemon olive oil, with caperberries and roasted black olives, dressed with flakes of a British pecorino-like cheese which name I forget, but may have had something to do with the name…

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I must be doing something right if they’re attacking me: …the two graphs are not quite to the same scale, but the story is plain enough: I came under some sort of botnet attack from March 24th which lasted three weeks, and it’s kudos to my provider that I didn’t notice any downtime or indeed…

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I suspect weather kept the crowds away. I swear they’re missing an opportunity, they should just erect a slide down into the Cherwell and charge a quid for it. Market forces and all that. The students would appreciate it. Independent Students leapt from Magdalen Bridge in Oxford to celebrate May Morning yesterday, despite police attempts…

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Independent All plans for new housebuilding have been frozen over a massive area of the Home Counties to protect three species of rare birds in the most remarkable clash yet between environment and development in Britain. Concerns about the welfare of the nightjar, the woodlark and the Dartford warbler have halted schemes for building thousands…

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This is the method I used: Disable Dashboard Controlling the dashboard. Sometimes you just don’t want it around. Note: This is a per user setting. I do not know how to disable it by default for every user. Possibly if you make this change to /Library/Preferences/com.apple.dashboard – Make Dashboard go away defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled…

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Meanwhile, at the road sign factory… …the lads were working overtime trying to perfect that pesky ‘No motor vehicles’ sign. (From) (Via) (original graphic from this site and replicated in case of bandwidth exhaustion.)

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Quoth Darren :- “I’ve just setup the start of a PAM page on OpenSolaris.org as part of the OpenSolaris security community. http://opensolaris.org/os/community/security/projects/pam/ I started with some of the PAM modules that I’ve had sitting in my home directory. I was interesting, for me, to see that I wrote some of these about 9 years ago.…

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Yahoo! SAN FRANCISCO – Benjamin Daines was browsing the Web when he clicked on a series of links that promised pictures of an unreleased update to his computer’s operating system. Instead, a window opened on the screen and strange commands ran as if the machine was under the control of someone – or something –…

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More on the nutty push for bicycle registration as previously reported (and which was picked up by Chris) courtesy of a quick Google News search: Guardian Law-breaking cyclists Former Labour minister Lord Howarth of Newport said: “Cyclists who habitually ride on the pavement, shoot red lights, ride the wrong way up one-way streets and ride…

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