Dropsafe

I feel that i have been somewhat neglecting the blog of late, so perhaps it is time for an update… After any trip to the USA, i am a bit of a vegetable until the jetlag works its way out of my system – this usually involves many many late nights staying up until 0200…

http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=222240&Y=965600&A=Y&Z=4 http://web.ukonline.co.uk/mountains/sandwood.htm http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/kinlochbervie/sandwoodbay/ …the only slight problem is the lack of road, but then, that’s the whole point. 😎

Sounds a bit like to old BANTER tool I wrote, without the smarts: If Perl is the Swiss Army chainsaw of programming languages, then SOCAT is the Swiss Army chainsaw of, uh, shell/networking tools. Socat works by connecting the input and output of two files together – where file can be a socket, or a…

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Tcl+Error+During+Template+Execution%22 http://www.google.com/search?q=%22sun+proprietary%22+confidential

this is the first and only interesting thing i have seen come out of big brother: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/people/big_brother/spencer_conversation.shtml

http://www.meyerweb.com/other/humor/pshift.html

the flight back was terrible. the bulkhead seat that i was assigned was not viable; about 3 hours into the flight i got cramped and coulf not sit in it any more because it was crushing my pelvis from side-to-side. i spent the remainder of the flight spending short stints in the chair, walking around…

just finishing up here at MTV B29 – the SunLabs building that used to be my HQ when I, too, was a Labs employee. Spent yesterday in a whirl ; more TLC break out session in the morning, then tried to locate a colleague (Iain) who relocated to the USA a few years ago. No…

Great dinner last night, enormous steak at some place called Birks (sic) with twenty of the other SunPS, ES, and other miscellaneous ESTC people, and that great hyperactive ferret of network love Dan tagged along too. I shall spare you from tales of the anguish of participating in focus groups – the team was great,…

If it quacks, it must be Trusted Solaris … – so, so apt.

re: http://onestop.sfbay/security/weblog-2002-06.shtml#20020611135523 Hackers unlocking Norway’s history E-mail messages from more than 100 good Samaritans flooded the Ivar Aasen Center for Language and Culture starting Thursday afternoon after the organization called for aid in hacking into one of its own databases to which the password was lost, said a message posted to the center’s Web site…

Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 19:02:10 +0100 To: UKcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk From: Richard Clayton richard@highwayman.com Subject: Home Office RIP website The Home Office RIP website http://www.legislation.hmso.gov.uk/si/si2002/draft/20022322.htm has today finally been updated to include a pointer to “The Regulation of Investigatory Powers (Communications Data: Additional Public Authorities) Order 2002” (a mere 5 days after it came out) However,…