Dropsafe

Well everyone’s got an opinion, and so have I, and to save everyone, someone, no-one, anyone asking, I’ll share it here… I’ve only heard the first episode so far – I could have heard the second tonight, but life gets in the way – and I like it; I am not adoring, but it shows

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If they/similar ever become home-burnable, which I would expect quite soon after manufacture, what would you use to back one of these up? [news.bbc.co.uk] Future DVDs could hold 100 times more information than current discs. Imperial College London researchers in the UK are developing a new way of storing data that could lead to discs

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Through the generosity of a Swedish colleague – Thanks Peter! – I now have several months’ supply of one of the mist horrible, disgusting-tasting but thoroughtly moreish candies on the planet: Läkerol Salmiak. I first encountered the Scandic obsession with Ammonia flavouring from a Danish hacker/friend back in the mid-80s, who with great relish would

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Well, like I said, last Wed/Thu/Fri were spent with me, PJ and RCC in Scotland, quite literally up to our arms in grids; I spent most of the time buried in a C compiler (which made for a pleasant change from the past few years’ worth of project management and security architecture) – and there

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The news this morning in the UK was abuzz with stories of police action related to people trying to buy red mercury for a terrorist weapon; this rang no bells with me, so I did a bit of Googling: [chemistry.about.com] The science newsgroups have been a-buzz with tales of a 2-kiloton yield Russian red mercury

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…from three days in Scotland at the factory, playing with new toys. Infiniband makes for a fun network fabric – it’s amusing to see ping roundtrips in the single-digit microsecond range… more later.

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you have no idea how long i’ve been meaning to look up this stuff: [infoshare1.princeton.edu]

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Hmmm… BMW R1200GS Desert Yellow – £9275 Grey Side Panels Black Seat ABS Wire-spoke Wheels – £235 Heated Hand Grips – £175 Alarm & Immobiliser – £118 Hand Guards – £35 (est) Large Crashbars – £210 (est) Extra-High Seat – TBD …so I am looking a little above the £10.2K mark. I suppose I could

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Do You Think To Much? [thejaywalker.com] — clipped from my colleague Andy Holt.

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I’ve not been blogging much of late; this has mostly – nah this has entirely – been due to pressure of work. It should improve over the next few days. Last week I was pulling double shifts, by day prepping-for and having meetings with my boss’s boss and extended team; by night fighting with Skype

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…are now considered safe financial risks. This is the only excuse I can think of for The Thomas Crown Affair (which started the rot) followed by The Italian Job and The Ladykillers and The Stepford Wives and The Manchurian Candidate now being joined by a remake of Alfie [trailer]. There’s Around The World In 80

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Linked from Jim at [found.pale.org] ; bizzzare thing is that it was only a few days ago, I was theorising loudly and boozily on a London streetcorner in whether there might be something like this possible with Windows, because there have been such in the OSS space for a long time… Notice especially the dig

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