Dropsafe

Caffeine obtained, chickens liberated, recycling bin yet to go out, and then there's the cake stand at the W.I. hut. Good morning everyone. # Is it me or has the #VirtualBox Media Manager dialogue been reduced in function? Was expecting to be able to create images, etc. # I always thought Liz Taylor was both

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.@r4today John Humphrys says "Everyone can remember/the 60s"; jokes aside, his comment explains a lot about the problem with politics today # New: Identifying net.censorship or shutdown via Unsolicited Internet Traffic from Libya http://bit.ly/fssf5p # @caalie Apparently you don't follow me, so I can't reply to you 😛 # BOOM BOOM BOOM from the ranges.

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Absolutely fascinating: In this article we discuss another type of Internet measurement data that can be useful in monitoring macroscopically visible Internet events: unsolicited packets destined to unused address space. Similar to the notion of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, this Internet “background noise” of unsolicited packets consists of packets sent by misconfigured hosts, hosts that

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Hmm… http://www.pcg.org.uk or http://www.fsb.org.uk or other? #freelance #it #consultant #advice #please # .@BBCLauraK When are they going to get real and have a red leather upholstered USB stick for the #Budget # @jilliancyork #Websense have twice classified my blog as "hacking" – it's a pain and incomprehensibly fine grained: http://bit.ly/h3m2Jx # "Things to do in

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@GeekChickUK Likewise meeting you! Looking fwd to Bsides #

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Oh dear. http://bit.ly/fmGk5s thanks, I needed a laugh. # re: @ceri: So "mekmitasdigoat" isn't a biblical reference then? # @ChetWisniewski @duckblog Am doing a post re: #Skype based on yr podcast http://goo.gl/n3Ugq; So wd #Sophos recommend Skype to dissidents? # @ChetWisniewski @duckblog If – as it sounded to me – #Skype is fit for dissident

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RT @ioerror: Economist article "Unorthodox links to the internet" worth reading: http://www.economist.com/node/18386151 # It's so much fun & so educational, each day, to grab an espresso & scroll up backwards through @zooko & @ioerror's most recent conversation # @paddy_o_c "Libyans are firing guns and sounding car horns in defiance" (PAUSE) FX: MACHINE GUNS (PAUSE) FX:

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Today I Learned: Complex Regular Expressions can be much much much less efficient than Simple Ones + Brute Force http://goo.gl/7n0Is # good heavens, i'm number 3 on http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/ # New: Incidentally, you know why it's called "grep" ? http://bit.ly/hdooPF # 15th June 2011 will be the 20th Anniversary of the release of Crack to the

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Facebook did something horrible to their user interface recently, perhaps trying to make it more Twitterish by submitting a comment as soon as a user presses the Return key. Daniel Wood, on his blog, wrote and posted a small Chrome extension that looks sane and which was supposed to solve the issue; I downloaded it

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$ re=root # re = “regular expression” $ echo g/$re/p | ed – /etc/passwd # spot the command name root:*:0:0:System Administrator:/var/root:/bin/sh … …in case you’re ever hacked remotely logged into a system where grep has been removed but ed remains; wrap it in a shellscript and you’re all set. Similarly more can be lashed-up using

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@webmink Because the news has already hit the professional US writers who are free to publish fact rather than opinion. 😛 # t-shirts and the fine art of polemic: http://bit.ly/gHm9gK # Revealed: US spy operation that manipulates social media | Technology | guardian.co.uk – http://goo.gl/CyrMB # so many #lulz # @beggaboo85 In a sense it's

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