Dropsafe

Remember this: http://www.livejournal.com/users/alecm/44211.html ? Well, there I am browsing the BBC, and I come actoss the “Blaine in Pictures” item on the splash page; scroll through the slides and I find: http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/03/entertainment_living_with_david_blaine/img/6.jpg …who is the girl herself.

So I have a 90MHz Pentium1 subnotebook – Toshiba Portege 610CT – which I have fitted a 4Gb HD into and which has a cracking 40Mb of physical memory. I want to put Linux on it, so I have a motorbike-friendly laptop. I have had Linux running on this beast before and sought to put…

[www.alpinestars.com] like walking around with an upholstered centurion tank on each foot.

http://www.totallykylie.com/TK/Miscellaneous/KylieSim/kyliesim.htm and worse: http://www.thesimsresource.com/static/skins1.html britney spears on your pc? ugh. the jane-austen skins must be one of the most bizzare concepts i have ever encountered.

a man (who wants to give everyone a national identity card and make them pay for the privilege, due to his inability to deal with asylum seekers) tells us that the laws he passed last time to evict nuisance neighbours (who presumably all live in rented accomodation) and keep homeless people and prostitutes off the…

evil and insidiously clever: spams that look exactly like real, well-balanced, sensible and personal e-mails, and thereby cut straight through spam filters. as jeff morgan would say: eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil! Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:15:10 +0100 From: Robert <r.seviour@virgin.net> Subject: Reply-to: Robert <steve.weiss@virgin.net> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.1 required=4.6 tests=SUBJ_REMOVE version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) During…

What’s a good, reasonably inexpensive, hobbyist route to get into welding? Target: from wheelbarrow repair to garden furniture/gate making, plus creating pannier racks for bicycles and motorcycles from steel tubing.

Amusingly stolen from [found.pale.org] [www.crunchweb.net]

worksafe: [www.dansdata.com] – link courtesy of james

http://bash.org/?55804 http://bash.org/?6060 http://bash.org/?10846 http://bash.org/?120398 http://bash.org/?10924

bash.org “stupid things said on IRC” quote server [bash.org] example output: <erno> hm. I’ve lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can’t figure out where in my apartment it is. …and… <rsb> i saw a very disturbing thing this morning <wjr> oh? <rsb> a dirty bum <rsb> he…

can anyone please explain to me how – aside fom police investigation getting in the way – theft of sourcecode can delay development? [news.bbc.co.uk]