I’m a Linux supporter. It’s worth making the above statement clear from the beginning, that way people who read this won’t be surprised if further down I say something nasty about Microsoft or Windows. Assuming those fitted with Windows blinkers have now left, I’ll say some nice things about Windows. Windows was originally created as… Continue reading Windows (Should I stay or should I go)
Month: October 2006
Is music worth it?
Today The Register reports how Danish courts have ruled that an ISP (Tele2) must make best efforts to prevent people accessing allofmp3.com. Power corrupts, but commercial power within the music industry seems to corrupt absolutely. In this day and age it’s incredible to me that a commercial group such as the RIAA can reach around… Continue reading Is music worth it?
Remailer Pings
The current method of pinging Remailers is flawed in terms of both latency and uptime measurement. Measurement of latency works fine for exit Remailers but Middleman nodes have to randhop the ping back through another node. This makes the measurement totally inaccurate as it becomes the sum of two Remailer latencies, not just the one… Continue reading Remailer Pings
Veiled Threat
Displays of religion in the workplace are becomming a more and more sensitive issue. However the latest battle in the veil wars is quite incredible to me. The first report I read told how 24 year old Aishah Azmi refused to remove her veil whilst teaching primary school children. The school subsequently suspended her in… Continue reading Veiled Threat
Holidaying in Iceland
Iceland has held a fascination for me ever since I read Desmond Bagley’s book Running Blind. In it a retired British spy called Alan Stewart is chased across Iceland leading to descriptions of huge glaciers, waterfalls and geysers. I’ve read the book so many times that the pages have started to fall out and it’s… Continue reading Holidaying in Iceland
Parking Theory
After a break of a year I’m now once more a regular attendee of St Mellion International Golf and Country Club. I don’t play golf but they have the nicest gym, swimming and leisure facilities that I know of. It’s also a nice friendly place with polite staff and a relaxed atmosphere. It helps that… Continue reading Parking Theory
Pseudonymous Mixmaster
I’ve been thinking a bit over the last few days about why a Mixmaster user cannot receive replies to messages. Obviously the repies cannot be delivered to an email address as Mixmaster contains no Reply-Block functionality, but there’s no reason I can think of why replies can’t be encrypted and dropped into a global message… Continue reading Pseudonymous Mixmaster
Registering with Technorati
Posting the following link appears to be the best way to register my blog on Technorati The other option is to tell them my username and password. Hmm….. Technorati Profile
Last Rites
Today has been a long time coming, but the inevitable happened in the end; Layered Technologies shut me down. It started off with just the usual abuse complaint. This time it seems that someone used Tor to run code stored as a phony JPEG at freeimagehosting.net. The complainant had already fixed their vulnerability by the… Continue reading Last Rites
Windows XP Product Keys
I woke up with a stiff neck this morning, probably caused by my new gym programme. That combined with a seriously irritating laptop forces me to sit very still and write another rant. Trevor, my local landlord wants a laptop. In fact since moving to St Mellion about 3 months ago, three people have approached… Continue reading Windows XP Product Keys
Debian Performance Monitoring
The title really should read system or resource monitoring, but performance monitoring seems to be the industry buzzword for checking up on what’s using what resource. First on the list has to be top. This is a great tool for monitoring CPU and Memory utilization by process. As its name suggests, the highest resource users… Continue reading Debian Performance Monitoring
Microsoft Operating System Rant
I posted this to alt.hacker this morning and thought I’d post it here as well so I can refer back to it when I discover that MS Vista does nothing I want it to do. I bit Bill’s hand off when he offered W2K because it was the first NT based OS with USB support.… Continue reading Microsoft Operating System Rant