You can make the best firewalls, or the coolest piece of security software, but as this experiment shows you still have the very big factor of human nature to overcome. Basically these guys wrote a trojan and put it on a bunch of those small USB memory sticks that are the latest give away gimick. […]
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After spilling some salad dressing on his keyboard, coworker licked it off the keys then proclaimed: “Ew! tastes like F1!” Well, it was funny at the time….
So I got sucked in to watching Canada’s Next Top Model tonight. I doubt anyone in the states will have heard of this, even if they do watch the US version. Basically I heard that it was hosted by the very hot Tricia Helfer (who of course plays Number 6 on Battlestar Galactica) and also
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I blogged about DJ SteveBoy and his PodRunner podcasts (xml) a bit ago…. well I loaded up my little mp3 player last night and headed to the gym. Well, they definately work. I have to say they work! I didn’t have a long run (only 15 min warmup to get ready for some weights), but
Wow, now I remember why I archive things forever! I ended up re-discovering the “txt” directory on my computer. This has been there for as long as I remember… in fact, it started out as “D:\txt” back in the days when I had a whole 100 megabytes of storage and I split it into 2x50mb
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Dear Motion Picture Industry. Thank you. Thank you for putting me on the path to the rightous, legal citizen. Thank you for showing me the light. Let me explain… The other night I went to see your excellent movie XMen 3 – The Last Stand. After getting to the theatre 30 minutes early, playing $13.00
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Well, Darren looks like he’s getting himself a little macbook (the bastard) and that’s something I’ve been looking at / lusting over since they were announced. I was even thinking of persuading ScoobyD to sell me her old G3 iBook until the intel versions were announced with twice the speed (or whatever). One of the
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Here’s a quick tip from what I learned this morning. If you have a machine running linux and you can’t tell if you have two physical CPUs (SMP) or one physical CPU with Hyperthreading it’s a pain. As far as linux is concerned both show the same number of CPUs in top, /proc/cpuinfo, etc. However,
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Here’s something neat for all my friends who run and have mp3 players. DJ Steveboy – Mixes is a podcast of songs for running to. Each one has a BPM rating and is basically a mix of electric beats that while I haven’t personally run to them yet, sound pretty funky-cool. It’s definately a neat
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Just saw a couple of items come in on DPreview… Pentax has announced two new Digital SLRs, the Pentax K100D and K110D. Highlights include: Big ass 2.5″ LCD with a “wide view” design which allows you to view the viewfinder at up to 140 degrees vertically and horizontally. Cool, how does it work in daylight
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