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“Please remove me from this alias” goes Westminster

Many MPs hit reply all to the message from Conservative MP Mark Pritchard ensuring a torrent of unwanted e-mails in the inboxes of other MPs. From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8357921.stm

CIPSO making your packets too fat? Jumbo frames to the rescue!

When you’re routing traffic from an unlabeled network (using plain IP) over a network where sensitivity labels are added to the packets using CIPSO headers this may cause problems: space used by the labels is no longer available for the payload, so the packets need to be made a bit smaller. This shouldn’t be a [...]

“Ick seg adieu”

The way things stand it seems quite likely that 31 August will be my last day as a Sun Microsystems employee. I’ll have been at Sun for 10.25 years. I circled the globe three times, crossed the Atlantic quite a bit more, met more than a few lovely and/or fascinating people, and worked on (and [...]

Two week gin trial

Tanqueray < Bombay Sapphire < Hendrick’s Gordon’s has too little character to feature in the above list. [Testing may not have been continuous]

Help translate Facebook into English

Obama on Facebook

The announcement that the White House would now join Twitter, Facebook and MySpace prompted Shadow Wrought on Slashdot.org to comment: My wife and her High School friends use Facebook to stay in touch. Which seems to primarily revolve around sending drinks to each other. Transparency and reachability are certainly good, but, it does make you [...]