Archive For July 11th, 2003

Going Home

I’m going home tomorrow night for 2 weeks. I’ve been in Chicago for almost 6 weeks now and just got used to looking for cars on the wrong side of the road, and American lifestyle in general. I’ll be back though and staying until the end of August! Here’s the view from my desk here. [...]

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Perfect solution to spam: a reply

The Register has a reply from Mark McCarron, the author of the “perfect solution to spam” mentioned here a few days ago. I’m gobsmacked reading through it. He boasts of software piracy and damaging school and public computers! He says that he tortured his computer teacher. He says that his GIEIS servers won’t use TCP/IP, [...]

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T3 – in a word…

crap. I wasn’t expecting much after seeing blog headlines from other sites but I was really disappointed by the film. The first half hour is great, that car chase is exciting at first but it goes on too long. After that I wondered where the story was. Sure, there was one or two scenes with [...]

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Rainbow Cocktails

This is a great photograph and description of how it was done. Cool!

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The state of just about everything at OScon

This article is a good summary of keynotes at OScon. Many 2.5/2.6 changes were put to the test recently when Linus Torvalds announced his move to the Open Source Development Network and the OSDN site was slashdotted. Thanks to improved efficiency in the kernel (especially the virtual memory management system), the system running their Web [...]

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