Dropsafe

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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I went mining the Apple website last night, and archived a bunch of links that seemed to be either interesting or useful… iPod: About Sleep, Deep Sleep, and Sleep Timer [docs.info.apple.com] iPod shows a folder icon with exclamation point when you turn it on [docs.info.apple.com] iPod: How to Share iPod on a Computer With Multiple

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[www.crypticide.com] and sequence; persons unknown this evening set multiple fires along a footpath that runs near our office… <sarcasm>lovely…</sarcasm>

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So [del.icio.us] leads me to [answers.google.com] … Question: Is Google HQ on fire right now? My wife drove your campus and saw smoke. Are you guys okay? I can probably get a ladder if you need it. Answer: There is no answer at this time. Then I mess around with the GoogleAnswers URL a bit;

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Yes, Simon, but isn’t it all getting a little bit too much I’m Spartacus!, No, I’m Spartacus!, No, I’m Spartacus!, … ? /me hides in a corner and waits for the voice of the one and only true, amateur, free-software, non-commercial, non-32bit-colour-icon-fuzzy-mascot-we-have-a-righteous-.org-domain open-source advocate to arise, and wonders: who will speak for them?

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Via [www.livejournal.com] I found [www.guardian.co.uk] WASHINGTON (AP) – Here’s a head-turner for a security-nervous city: A large white object was spotted in the skies above the nation’s capital in the pre-dawn hours Wednesday. Pentagon police said the Defense Department is testing a security blimp – fully equipped with surveillance cameras. The white blimp was spotted

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cool! [www.cs.technion.ac.il]

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There must surely be a point where coincidence meets fate; I woke this morning at 0615h, went for my morning bike-ride, came back and sat down with the intent to skim e-mail before hitting the shower. I was pounced-upon virtually (iChat/AIM) by a Swiss colleague (“GG”) who’d apparently read my mind about an work-related issue

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There are three pubs in my village, and I occasion (rather than frequent) two of them; the third is a place I have visited perhaps five times in five years, and I have never found any reason to linger. The second overlooks the cricket green. During summer days you can buy a pint, walk over

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