Dropsafe

I was driving past/through farnborough several times at the weekend, including past the new Frank Whittle[1] memorial statue – a fullsize model of the first jet aircraft, set in the midst of a roundabout next to a field. There was a Pied Wagtail perched atop the engine intake, as if just to show us who…

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i’m pretty certain i’ll need to reference these in the next six months or so: first delurking on usenet, 1 october 1990 [groups.google.com] first sigblock, 4 october 1990 [groups.google.com] JANET aem@uk.ac.aber INET: aem@cs.aber.ac.uk (or possibly aem@aber.ac.uk) UUCP: …!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!aem ARPA: aem%uk.ac.aber.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk aem%uk.ac.aber@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk BITNET: <play around with aem%aber@ukacrl, ok?> SNAIL: Alec Muffett, Computer Unit, Llandinam Building, UCW…

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Want one! [www.theapplecollection.com]

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cute: [www.slimdevices.com]

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[www.glasnost.de] Why? Purely as an educational exercise? Or did they fear Caribou of Mass destruciton?

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[whacked.net]

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because the following from the list at [www.spy.org.uk] would have all applied to me as a child: Missed medical appointments Bad Behaviour in School Learning Difficulties Involvement in Anti-Social Behaviour Denies part in /does not believe commits Anti-Social Behaviour Non-constructive spare time / Easily bored Social Isolation Victim of Bullying or Discrimination Other …or as…

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Personally – on the basis of those natives I’ve met – I tend to view Oz as a land of rampant individualists; I am surprised that they let this sort of thing go on: From [www.csamuel.org] Linux Australia has published the first draft of their position paper on US – Australia “Free” Trade Agreement and…

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[www.coker.com.au] The aim of this is to demonstrate that all necessary security can be provided by SE Linux without any Unix permissions (however it is still recommended that you use Unix permissions as well for real servers). Also it gives you a chance to login to a SE machine and see what it’s like. When…

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for those who’ve been asking me what blogs are all about, and how they build and reinforce technical communities, surf through the following MSDN site for 10 minutes: [channel9.msdn.com]

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[www.jayallen.org]

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I have no idea if this would work on MacOS, to make Firefox look identical to (ahem) Safari. [www.aqua-soft.org]

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