Dropsafe

Hmmm… where did I leave my 4.1.1 install CD? Here’s an interesting way to secure an Internet-connected computer against intruders: Make sure the operating system and software it runs are so old that current hacking tools won’t work on it. This was suggested by Brian Aker, one of the programmers who works on Linux.com, NewsForge,

(more…)

apparently some 20% of the british population are at home to watch the world-cup match of england vs: argentina.

(more…)

i woke up at 0200 this morning, with my foot in agony; i am hoping that it is not actually secretly broken, and that this is all part and parcel of the getting worse before it gets better thing that my doctor told me about.

(more…)

re: my reference to the elan valley in this entry – i find there is quite a nice website: http://www.elanvalley.org.uk/ …and of course elan valley.

(more…)

http://southpark.gamesweb.com/flash/sp-studio.html

(more…)

http://www.softpanorama.org/Security/sos.shtml This is a must-read resource, for anyone interested in how the public perceives security hardening; I especially agree with their cited: Softpanorama First Law of Hardening: The level of security of any Unix environment can not be significantly different from the level of qualification of system administrator(s) responsible for this environment

(more…)

South African police have arrested six West Africans, allegedly members of a 419 email fraud gang which is thought to have tried to con thousands of pounds out of their victims, according to this report. http://www.theregus.com/content/6/25017.html I get dozens of these e-mails per month; here’s hoping that they go down in number, a little.

(more…)

well, i’m back.

(more…)

hello all, if you’re reading this and wondering where i’ve been for the past few days, i – like the rest of the united kingdom – am on vacation until wednesday; we’re celebrating having had the queen avoid being kicked off the throne for 50 years now, and it really is quite amusing when watching

(more…)

Edited extracts from my other blog, regarding the past three days. (Annotation – much of this was written on a palmpilot in cafes and behind trees; forgive me if the prose style is not so hot when i am out and about) tuesday morning Hello all here i sit in a cafe in Aberystwyth, relaxing

(more…)

i knew it was going to be bad when it took me three attempts to find the door into the hospital that was meant for use between the hours of 8pm and 8am; it was the door with the prominent sign on it, saying: please use other door. i walked up to a likely looking

(more…)

well, i am home. just. mostly intact. i left rhyader’s cafe as-per my last entry, and was accosted outside by two of the cafe’s staff whilst getting my kit on for the bike, asking me the nature of the bizzare device that i was playing with whilst eating my meal. don’t they have palmpilots in

(more…)