Dropsafe

Joel phoned me saturday around 4pm haveing woken from his nap – he seems to sleep as often as my cats, and requires about as much as they do to stay vertical. Met up at the Hilton in Bracknell, and found our way to a nearby Balti house for dinner (recommendation courtesy of some friends

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The gods of Linux smile upon me. They must do. I suspect it is something to do with having deeply incriminating pictures of Alan Cox in my possession, from our days as students. Why, then, is it that I can make RedHat linux work essentially perfectly upon any hardware that I own, either by intention

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Vijay requested a picture of my bike

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Re: http://onestop.sfbay/security/weblog-2002-05.shtml#20020509153520 I’ve had a little feedback: Heh heh, very funny!!! What you could perhaps also mention is that said colleague (i.e. me) was happily walking back to her car having finally been to the gym and spotted a person with a rucksack leaning into the bushes and sniffing. An odd sight really. …which, I

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Lost in the Zandernews… SANTA CLARA, Calif. (PRNewswire) – Sun Microsystems today announced that the Trusted Solaris 8 4/01 Operating Environment (Solaris OE) received security certification under the Common Criteria Labeled Security Protection Profile (LSPP) at Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL4). The only operating system to achieve this level of certification, the Trusted Solaris 8

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I passed the DSA Motorcycle Theory test! 35/35 – 100% perfect score! Next stop, Direct-Access Full License test! Boing boing boing!

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I can theoretically ride a motorcycle! (I passed the UK Theoretical M/C Drivers Test. 100% score. Next comes the full-practical test)

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i was walking back to my car last night, to the far end of the carpark only to spy a fellow employee walking in my direction. The evening was warm and bright, and noting a hint of it in the still air, I stopped to enjoy the perfume of the flower-laden gorse bush that I

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EDS, the computer arm of the British government, has banned its staff from using Instant Messenger products in the workplace. It cites security concerns, especially over virus transmissions. A memo to staff from EDS’ security compliance unit leaked to The Register describes “use of Instant Messenger (IM) products through the Internet” as a “risk to

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LJ has finally managed to astonish me. i’ve never before seen a community of people of shared experience achieve such a transcendent “critical mass”. this is a dies mirabilis.

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…of Whit and me, messing around on the amusing (and rather artistic) penny-farthing bicycle-stands that populate the main street of my village. picture 1 picture 2

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my life is driven by my palm-pilot – or perhaps the other way around; i utilise my pilot as: (1) 8Mb of non-volatile brainspace, (2) FAQ repository, for those moments in the pub where you really need access to the entire IANA port-number list, or a database of what MAC-address headers correspond to what manufacturers,

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