Dropsafe

hooray.

this is the current state of the GMP restaurant; three hundred people huddled in one end, watching TV, leaving the rest vacant: almost bizzarely, the audience is more than 60% female by my count – this is not meant as a commentary upon women being bizzare for watching football, but instead (my hypothesis) a result…

Remember http://onestop.sfbay/security/weblog-2002-05.shtml#20020520203234 ? See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_2030000/2030722.stm

http://www.brunching.com/features/diagrams.html

Hmmm… where did I leave my 4.1.1 install CD? Here’s an interesting way to secure an Internet-connected computer against intruders: Make sure the operating system and software it runs are so old that current hacking tools won’t work on it. This was suggested by Brian Aker, one of the programmers who works on Linux.com, NewsForge,…

apparently some 20% of the british population are at home to watch the world-cup match of england vs: argentina.

i woke up at 0200 this morning, with my foot in agony; i am hoping that it is not actually secretly broken, and that this is all part and parcel of the getting worse before it gets better thing that my doctor told me about.

re: my reference to the elan valley in this entry – i find there is quite a nice website: http://www.elanvalley.org.uk/ …and of course elan valley.

http://southpark.gamesweb.com/flash/sp-studio.html

http://www.softpanorama.org/Security/sos.shtml This is a must-read resource, for anyone interested in how the public perceives security hardening; I especially agree with their cited: Softpanorama First Law of Hardening: The level of security of any Unix environment can not be significantly different from the level of qualification of system administrator(s) responsible for this environment

South African police have arrested six West Africans, allegedly members of a 419 email fraud gang which is thought to have tried to con thousands of pounds out of their victims, according to this report. http://www.theregus.com/content/6/25017.html I get dozens of these e-mails per month; here’s hoping that they go down in number, a little.

well, i’m back.