Dropsafe

At http://www.flickr.com/photos/alecmuffett/sets/72157601188592717/

(more…)

From mini-AIR; he who writes the book, makes the rules… Investigators Sally Shelton passes on news from investigator Robin Leech, who passes on news from an entomologists’ discussion: “Neil Evenhuis described a new species of bee fly (Bombyliidae) from the US Southwest. It is named Phthiria relativitae, n.sp. pronounced Theory O’ Relativity.” Dr. Evenhuis is

(more…)

That sounds like R2D2 on his wedding night – Hamish Blake on abc‘s Spicks and Specks, describing the sound of the Theremin

(more…)

I don’t even wear a watch, and I still think these look cool… http://www.chiefmag.com/issues/4/profiles/Haruo-Suekichi/ Yes, right, yes… so I didn’t sell a single one, and my master told me, well, if you don’t sell them, you won’t make any money, so find some way to sell them. So I went to a flea market with

(more…)

Warning: insane kitty cuteness ahead: Lynn Voedisch, journalist, author, and wife of friend and colleague Dr Brad Blumenthal, has been writing-up their efforts to capture some of the stray feral kittens in their neighborhood: If the Xanga photo editor will let me, I will show you the kittens who are in our backyard. BTW, they

(more…)

Simon kindly lent me his expertise and we assembled my new AMD Solaris box; the final configuration for those of you who are interested in such things, was: 2.1GHz dual-core AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350 @ 45W Zalman CP9500 CPU Cooler Thermaltake Toughpower 1000W PSU Thermaltake Armor (full-tower with side fan) 4x1Gb Corsair Dominator DDR2 non-ECC

(more…)

…is not a mouthful of novocaine, but I suspect that what it protected me from is worth it.

(more…)

So I was driving home from London at 0700h this morning, and missed/overshot my exit on the Motorway, and had to get off at Hook; it’s a good thing I did because otherwise I might have driven into this “hole in the road drama” !!! Quoth: Village road collapses THERE has been a hole-in-the-road drama

(more…)

If you use Firefox, especially on windows, read this! If you fail to take protective measures you could stumble across a webpage which toasts your system. Geoff wrote me: Not sure about Linux and OS X – assume the worst. See http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/783400 For now, consider using another browser. But if you have to use FireFox…

(more…)

Just to let you know, I have started getting spurious and unexpected “you have failed to change your AppleID Password” mails again: Subject: We’re Unable to Reset Your Apple Password From: AppleID@apple.com Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:29:05 +0000 (GMT) Dear alec muffett, We apologize but we were unable to verify your account information with

(more…)

Thought for the day: Is there any benefit to installing Trusted Extensions on Solaris 10+ and then *not* installing any zones/compartments on it? Would it work? If it did work, would any aspect of it be beneficial to operation? Think carefully before responding. This is, after all, how RBAC ended up in Solaris.

(more…)

Geoff passed on to me an Oxford status update from his brother, dated Wednesday morning: I have just heard that Botley Rd is passable at the moment but won’t be for long. A big surge is predicted for today as the the river drains the floodplains and water-meadows further up the Thames Valley. Kidlington, despite

(more…)