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Interesting AP article at [www.securityfocus.com] AtStake fires executive over Microsoft criticism By Ted Bridis, The Associated Press Sep 25 2003 1:29PM The chief technology officer for a technology firm that works closely with Microsoft Corp. lost his job after he helped write a study critical of the insecurity of Microsoft software. Daniel E. Geer Jr.,

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Take a small denomination copper coin – a US or UK penny does fine for this circumstance. Hold it at the furthest arm’s length that you possibly can, stretch really far, and imagine it polished-up to a bright, vomitous pink colour, the fleshy pink of a common “Band Aid” or other surgical item. Imagine the

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http://www.livejournal.com/users/itssarahyo/328226.html

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…but dave will be pleased: [www.ananova.com] link from

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Playing tonight at a Corporate gig in the USA – the video says it all: [www.letslounge.com]

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this will go over the heads of so many of my friends and relations: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics/AT13/refresh/AL1303W+GIF/162058W.gif

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Well, depending what blog you read, you’ll know i have been away for a week visitng the USA; this has mostly involved working 0700h through to 2000h for four days, and until 1700 on the last day. trip highlights: getting off the plane, going shopping at rei, and then going hot-tubbing with dave, valerie and

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is it really too bourgeoise to have 526Gb hung off your home system ?

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i upturned a garbage-can lid on some bricks, to make a crude birdbath on the back lawn. buster has taken to sitting on the grass, with his feet up on one of the bricks, gazing down into it – presumably at the reflection of the cat staring back at him?

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I mounted my work filestore via Samba on MacOS, and created a couple of files in my HTML publishing directory: -rwxr-xr-x 1 alecm wheel 20961 Sep 3 12:00 tmp.pdf -rwxr-xr-x 1 alecm wheel 42554 Sep 3 11:53 tmp.ps …these are the permissions seen verbatim, as seen on my laptop. I shared the URL with some

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[www.maydaymystery.org] Anyone been to U.Arizona? The Game seems to revolve around May 1st, commonly known as May Day. It has some connection to an old, possibly Druidic holiday known as Lamas day. The solution to solving the puzzle lies within unraveling a series of complex, detailed, and interwoven pages that are printed every May 1st

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next time you encounter a webpage that is touting for mail addresses (to which it will no doubt send spam) consider subscribing two users: postmaster@localhost and abuse@localhost …you never know, it might work.

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