Dropsafe

So I was reading Hal’s blog about Erdos Numbers and my friend Whit: [blogs.sun.com] The “main tent” of the analyst’s conference ends with the CTO panel, featuring the person changed with setting technical direction and often architecture for each of Sun’s business units. This year’s herd of nerds included Jim Baty, Andy Bechtolsheim, Tim Bray,…

(more…)

I am installing NetBSD onto a Toshiba Libretto 100ct with varying degrees of success; the operating sstem is wonderful, well-integrated (hey, I can drive my wireless card with “ifconfig”!) but seems to be having a slight hissy-fit regarding hard disk partitions. To cut a long story short: I am installing the hard disk on another…

(more…)

This is lovely; the pictures are superb… [news.bbc.co.uk] A house burglar was caught after a webcam on the owner’s computer recorded images of him carrying out the raid. Stills of serial raider Benjamin Park, 19, of Cambridge, were sent to an email address so even when he stole the computer, the images could be found.…

(more…)

Parental Discretion Advisory – I am not joking, some of this stuff would explode the heads of some sweet, innocent Americans that I know. Ever since I heard a copy of London Underground I have been wondering who did it: [www.amateurtransplants.com] Fitness to Practice is an unsettling new CD written and performed by Amateur Transplants…

(more…)

if people can act under false pretences, do they ever do so under true ones?

(more…)

Another of the aphorisms by which I try to live my life is: try to have a different set of tools from everybody else; you need to have a “core set” that is the same as everyone else’s, but electing to suffer difference for its own sake does lead one away from monoculture syndrome –…

(more…)

Please share your security problems with the Government … I am rather surprised that anyone would ever think this might work. [www.theregister.co.uk] US info-sharing initiative called a flop Nearly a year after its launch, a federal office created as a conduit for corporate America to provide the government with sensitive information about critical vulnerabilities has…

(more…)

Taken from Holly’s blog – this has exactly the correct sense of surrealism to amuse me, although the danger aspect of it really does not appeal, and it certainly cannot be worth someone’s losing their life, the notion that under every major body of water in northern England there may lurk a small picket-fenced garden…

(more…)

you have just so got to go and look at [spamusement.com] if you are a security geek…

(more…)

This past two weeks I am been mostly coughing; I have the dreaded lurgy with horrible side-effects[1]; that plus a selection of work presentations, significant amount of architecture work on a really really huge grid, and a trip to the London Motorcycle Show to get a new Helmet and a Paddock Stand and a Tank…

(more…)

Incidentally, the article that Senator Andrew Bartlett cites as being the reason Anna’s situation was discovered, makes harrowing reading: [www.theage.com.au] International efforts are being made to establish the identity of a young German woman held at Baxter detention centre in circumstances that have angered refugee advocates. Other Baxter detainees drew attention to the woman after…

(more…)

For those who never duck their heads outside of UK and/or US events, may I proffer this piece of reactionary stupidity from the Southern hemisphere: [www.csamuel.org] Cornelia Rau goes missing from Manly Hospital in Sydney, reportedly with schizophrenia. She makes her way from NSW to northern Queensland, where she is found by Aborigines. In NSW…

(more…)