alecm
alecm
@alecm@alecmuffett.com
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  • one of my favourite-ever usenet postings…

    http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=594klq%245sg%40scream.auckland.ac.nz&output=gplain

  • right

    bug fixed (links into the middle of the weblog stopped working with the redesign) and dave, ray, stuart and i have started the ball rolling to create training material for the solaris hardening service. now, it seems, i may be going to dinner with the whole of the cambridge SunPS team. should be fun!

  • dictionary definition…

    Collateral Spammage: third-party hosts or network infrastructure that are crashed, taken down or otherwise damaged by being utilised as spam-relays, or by virtue of being downstream from same.

  • right…

    I am off to Cambridge (having popped into the office for tying-up of loose ends) to discuss development of training materials for the SunPS EMEA-wide Security Training Course that is being delivered, week of 13th May. This (latter) is probably going to be consuming most of my time for the next three weeks, so if…

  • pictures

    Marek requested a picture of the cherry trees near my home; I enclose one (a little fuzzy) plus a photo of my local phonebox. Alas, most of the blossom is fallen, now, but there will be more, next year.

  • useful things to do of an evening…

    1) Jetwash the motorbike 2) Carefully consider whether to jetwash the cat. 3) Let the cat off, this time, but if I get any more dead mice in the house, it’s hosepipe-time. 3) Pasta 4) E-mail 5) Try to negotiate with Gene Saunders (always a surreal thrill) and Mark Thacker (likewise) as to what URL…

  • yay.

    I’ve done a little adaptation to the look-and-feel to try and make the weblog more pleasant to read; also the date-handling is a little smarter, and I am experimenting with colour a little to try and make things more legible. I feel considerably better and more able to cope with work today; Joep, myself and…

  • eula says “illegal” to delete windows from a pc

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/25085.html

  • from the #security chat channel

    <efi> just finished my pizza <bartb> ow – enjoyed it I hope <efi> hmmm with all the sunshine out it was painfull but what the hell <PAVUK> 🙂 <bartb> you should know by now that sunshine is not the natural environment for geeks <efi> yep geeks these strange beasts which are kept closed in a…

  • it’s tuesday, if i remember rightly…

    Urgh. Well, my head is now back together, but I could really do with a couply more hours worth of sleep. Joep from Solaris Software Security Products Group (or whatever they are called this month) arrived late last night; his flight was due at 1920h but landed at 2047h, so in retrospect it was a…

  • waiting for godot: the interactive adventure.

    Waiting for Godot: The Interactive Adventure! http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Lot/6200/waitingforgodot.html

  • good morning

    it’s damp, it’s been raining, and it’s a lovely day. i woke inexplicably early (0530h) showered and breakfasted, and crashed on the sofa a bit, to snuggle the cat. tea, telephoned to pay some bills, joined the bmf, and got in the car to drive to work. I got as far as one end of…