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Monthly Archives: April 2005
Solid rocket fuel history
Interesting paper (pdf) on the history of solid rocket fuels. Link.
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Reconstruction
My main computer at home died the other evening; there had been subtle signs of illness (disk errors, mysterious freezes, blank screens and poor scores in Diablo II), but I was in denial. It quit for good while I was … Continue reading
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Penguin Terror
Two penguins. Going through airport security. (from Bruce Schneier’s blog: link)
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2005
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Windows kiosk security
I used to work with (well, more accurately, next to) James Bach, who has a web log. (Son of “Jonathon Livingston…” yeah, that Bach). Here’s an entertaining post on the insecurity of windows-based kiosks (link).
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Another Scholarly Work
A Security Analysis of the SAURON Command and Control System Abstract In this paper we describe an effective attack against SAURON, a distributed, heirarchical command-and-control system with unique user interface features. Given access to a master key, a procedure is … Continue reading
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popery
Rules during the “vacancy” at the Vatican, and for filling it. link
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Dressing Up / Dressing Down
I dress the Gibber in the morning: A onesie underneath, then some kind of shirt and some kind of pants. I know enough not to put stripes and plaids together (though one morning I did do this), but I do … Continue reading
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Raskin Comment
ACM Queue has a (posthumous) article by Jef Raskin on documentation. He wraps up by saying: Prior, clear, and extensive documentation is a key element in creating software that can survive and adapt. Documenting to high standards will decrease development … Continue reading
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BK Fracas
Quick summary of the foo-fah-rah: (1) Linus starts using BitKeeper to maintain Linux. BK is a proprietary revision control system that has various proprietary whizzy features, and is free (for Linus) as long as (2) the author (well, CEO of … Continue reading
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