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{ Daily Archives } Tuesday, February 2005

in the spirit of ‘disgruntled’

if people can act under false pretences, do they ever do so under true ones?

2005 02 15 alecm misc Comments (4)

Quad-Booting Thinkpad !

Another of the aphorisms by which I try to live my life is: try to have a different set of tools from everybody else; you need to have a “core set” that is the same as everyone else’s, but electing to suffer difference for its own sake does lead one away from monoculture syndrome – [...]

2005 02 15 alecm gadgets Comments (13)

US info-sharing initiative called a flop

Please share your security problems with the Government … I am rather surprised that anyone would ever think this might work. [www.theregister.co.uk] US info-sharing initiative called a flop Nearly a year after its launch, a federal office created as a conduit for corporate America to provide the government with sensitive information about critical vulnerabilities has [...]

2005 02 15 alecm security Comments (0)

Underwater gnome threat ‘returns’

Taken from Holly’s blog – this has exactly the correct sense of surrealism to amuse me, although the danger aspect of it really does not appeal, and it certainly cannot be worth someone’s losing their life, the notion that under every major body of water in northern England there may lurk a small picket-fenced garden [...]

2005 02 15 alecm news Comments (6)