Dropsafe

This is cool! The idea of providing free public access to Unix systems so people can get a feel for the hardware, upcoming operating system releases and compilers – that idea seems to have dropped out of fashion recently. I’m glad to see it back, although I daresay in this modern era some people will

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from [www.livejournal.com] [news.bbc.co.uk] Game show traps ‘wanted’ guests A number of people wanted by police were duped into appearing on a fake TV game show, only to find themselves trapped by detectives. Hampshire Police sent hoax letters to the homes of fine-dodgers and others wanted on court warrants, offering them the chance to win big

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As pointed out to me by Bart: [www.theregister.co.uk] … Step forward the Real Ale Guide, which as of right now is offering to point you in the direction of the nearest approved hostelry for a mere 50p plus network charges. That’s right – you simply text GOODPUB to 85130 and in a jiffy you’ll receive

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and so it begins: [www.engadget.com] (linked from slashdot)

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I’ve seen this in three places now, so I reckon it’s a real buzzword: Podcasting. The idea is simple: Someone with an ego creates and makes available, MP3 (etc) content Someone with no discretion enables a certain bit of software. Said piece of software automatically loads said content onto the latter person’s MP3 player without

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from MeFi: I look forwards to seeing if this actually happens. [www.mobile-clubbing.com] London Pillow-Fight Club Pedestrian Area, outside St Paul’s Cathedral Wednesday 6th October 17:40

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Link supplied by Rob Diamond: [www.guardian.co.uk] Complete the following sentence: “Ben Folds, Nick Hornby, Brad Paisley, Joe Jackson, Aimee Man … ” The chances of an average life-form guessing “William Shatner” are equal to the Starship Enterprise turning out to be made entirely of smoked salmon. But these are the crew members for the further

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As I repeatedly aver, there are no new security bugs, but merely an increasing number of variations on the same theme; this morning a Slashdot posting reminded me of last year’s DEFCON experiment that successfully pumped an “unamplified” WiFi connection for some 55.1 miles; I quote the term “unamplified” here because (as an SWL) I

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Wahey it works! it’s been a mixed weekend; the good bits I’ll tell you about later, the boring bits I am using right now. I reformatted the iBook’s harddrive and rebuilt MacOS Panther from scratch. That required a PRAM reset, 15Gb full backup with redundant copy, blanking the disk, a full install, update, reupdate, rereupdate,

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i archive all my referrer-logs away from public indexability so that you don’t have to suffer it; this morning I encountered a new, apparently speculative one: mount-st-helens-eruption-pictures.blogspot.com, one of many from the past few weeks hat seem to be named around a <keywordtopic>.blogspot.com theme, and I thought it a fair bet although perhaps not quite

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Clipping courtesy of [genebob.blogspot.com] – or from Gene, at least: http://www.marketingprofs.com/4/huba11.asp Seven Reasons Why Businesses Should Blog Now by Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba September 28, 2004 Blog enthusiasts are excellent evangelist candidates. They’re early adopters. Often, they’re serial buzz spreaders, and they can funnel waves of others just like them toward your blog and

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