Dropsafe

…from the inestimable Dave Edmondson (who is beginning to understand my mindset far too well) I received this suggestion which verges upon practical retrocomputing: [nail.sourceforge.net] nail, an enhanced mailx command Nail is a mail user agent for Unix systems. Highlights are: * Derived from Berkeley Mail 8.1. An interface like the original Berkeley one is

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Bah! My colleague Rob, and I, set one of these up at USENIX Security in Washington DC, a couple of years ago; two Apple laptops and a piece of Cat-5. Easy… [news.bbc.co.uk] ‘Evil twin’ fear for wireless net People using wireless high-speed net (wi-fi) are being warned about fake hotspots, or access points. The latest

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[news.bbc.co.uk] Condoleezza Rice, President George W Bush’s nominee for secretary of state, has hinted at the direction of future US foreign policy by identifying six “outposts of tyranny” around the world. Interesting, especially since the list includes Zimbabwe.

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[news.bbc.co.uk] US soldiers in Iraq approach a car after opening fire when it failed to stop at a checkpoint. Despite warning shots it continued to drive towards their dusk patrol in Tal Afar on 18 January. Chris Hondros a photographer with Getty News was on hand to record these pictures. WARNING: This gallery contains graphic

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OK: for “real” e-mail, I persist in using the Rand Mail Handler – MH, now in its guise as NMH, with an EXMH frontend that has made life more pleasant since GUIs became common / XMH got too clunky. Why? Because it fits the Unix “toolkit” approach, and allows me to manipulate the vast quantity

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Big surprise… “I got it from Philip, he got it from…”

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It’s not often that I get the chance to correct my boss’ boss’ boss but given the opportunity to do so without harm or business impact, I might as well enjoy the novelty. 😎 Jonathan writes: [blogs.sun.com] And from an intelligence gathering perspective, who would’ve thought the anachronistic Minox’s arch rival would become Nokia –

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The divine Valerie several months ago introduced me to the concept of What does your TiVo think you are? – that after some measurement of your behaviour it can extrapolate to find other programmes that you might like, and record them on your behalf. I heard reports of peoples’ TiVos coming to the most bizzare

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[www.esa.int] – alert c/o Chris Samuel.

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[www.esa.int] The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope (GBT) of the National Radio-astronomy Observatory in West Virginia, USA, a part of the global network of radio telescopes involved in tracking the Huygens Titan probe, has detected the probe’s ‘carrier’ (tone) signal. The detection occurred between 11:20 and 11:25 CET, shortly after the probe began its

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I stumbled across this marvellous comparison of camping and backpacking stoves, being in the market for something that burns other than meths[1] – this led me to: [members.iinet.net.au] International Fuel Names Translations for the names of fuels commonly used in backpacking stoves. Which is full of the mostly-useless-but-very-interesting information that geeks tend to enjoy. One

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…don’t you ever get spooked when it says: It’s Zero hours.

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