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"Unfortunately our most likely enemies will throw explosives into unguarded cable interconnect rooms or drop cans of petrol into unlocked manholes. End of Cyber War. You might characterize this as the provenance of a 23 year old fundamentalist Skywalker with a cell phone modem and a wild-eyed cousin in Munich figuring out how to blow up the Internet Death Star and stop Predator attacks on his village. Totally asymmetric dude! (From Bob Fonow's "The Death Star?: Cyber Security vs. Internet security")" - Daniel W. Crompton

Here's the removal command: msiexec /x {8FFC5648-FAF8-43A3-BC8F-42BA1E275C4E} - Daniel W. Crompton

Getting busy with axis2, needed a refresher from Axis. - Daniel W. Crompton

Very cool idea - Daniel W. Crompton

Sweex - Daniel W. Crompton

Spend the day hacking Apple TV, lots of fun... - Daniel W. Crompton

rsyncd - Daniel W. Crompton

Manually patched the kernel, the compiler's optimizer breaks the code. + /* The following asm() prevents the compiler from + * optimising this loop into a modulo operation. */ + asm("" : "+r"(ns)); - Daniel W. Crompton

Most of these links come from a sick day at home catching up on my security reading. - Daniel W. Crompton

When it comes to setting the size of type in CSS, you have lots of options. You can apply a keyword, like p { font-size: small; } or a numerical value. When - Daniel W. Crompton

A couple of weeks ago I participated for the first time in the keynote at Microsoft’s Teched US conference to a room of over 5,000 attendees. Bill Veghte, the Senior Vice President of Windows marketing, led the keynote and gave a tour of the user-focused - Daniel W. Crompton

After playing with DebugView (sysinternals) I decided to have a look at what I could find regarding use. - Daniel W. Crompton

This webshop will sell exclusive environmentally friendly products when it is released. - Daniel W. Crompton

"Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) license compliance is a contentious topic. There are different perspectives about when and how license terms apply, about which licenses can be used together, and about how potential issues should be resolved. The consumer electronics market is an area where FOSS license compliance is particularly problematic." - Daniel W. Crompton from Bookmarklet

"The final quote from the music industry, striking out at UK ISPs, is priceless: "BT is clinging on to an old business model which is supported by illegal downloading. That's not only unfair to artists and creators, but penalizes BT's many customers who use the Internet legally."" - Daniel W. Crompton from Bookmarklet

"Marmite and many other brands inspire a visceral feeling in many people. In a recent survey, 45% of consumers said that they love Marmite and 40% hated it." - Daniel W. Crompton from Bookmarklet

WSJ.com: What's News US: Yahoo plans to expand the rollout of its enhanced Web-based email service in Asia and Europe in the next few months. Permalink - Daniel W. Crompton

Mashable!: Remember NES (Nintendo Entertainment System)? It’s an 8-bit video game console released back in 1985. Besides being a solid gaming system, NES brought us legendary games such as Super Mario Bros, Tetris, and The Legend of Zelda. What does all that have to do with Google’s web browser, Chrome? Well, a chap named Ben Firshman ported a NES emulato... Permalink - Daniel W. Crompton

Submitted By Adamsherk: In recent weeks wordpress security, or more correctly the lack of wordpress security has been getting a lot of attention. While most people consider this a site maintenance issue, it has implications that affect your SEO efforts, in this post I’ll explain why, and look at some things you can do to protect yourself, and reduce the damage. From a... Permalink - Daniel W. Crompton

Submitted By Adamsherk: When you run wordpress or any other blog for that matter, chances are your blog is getting scraped, and re-used without your permission. In this post I’ll show you how you can use this to your advantage to build links with the anchor text of your choice. The first step you need to take is to make sure you are publishing a full feed. I know this... Permalink - Daniel W. Crompton

"The Norton Online Risk Calculator, unveiled within a microsite to coincide with the launch of Norton 2010, calculates your net worth on the black market by asking a few questions about your personal Internet use." - Daniel W. Crompton from Bookmarklet

""Any rebroadcast, retransmission, or account of this game, without the express written consent of Major League Baseball, is prohibited,"" - Daniel W. Crompton from Bookmarklet

"So it takes about 25 kilobits -- 3.2 kbytes -- of data to code for a virus that has a non-trivial chance of killing a human. This is more efficient than a computer virus, such as MyDoom, which rings in at around 22 kbytes. It’s humbling that I could be killed by 3.2 kbytes of genetic data. Then again, with 850 Mbytes of data in my genome, there’s bound to be an exploit or two." - Daniel W. Crompton from Bookmarklet

relationship status itself is dumb... - John Wang

"wake up every morning covered in cheetoes and lipstick" is the new "it's complicated" - Jason Wehmhoener from iPhone

At Archive Binge you can create a custom RSS news feed for a webcomic, which will take you through the archive, at a rate faster than the new comics update. This lets you get up to date on comics with large archives, without spending hours or days trawling the archive in one go. - Daniel W. Crompton

"At Archive Binge you can create a custom RSS news feed for a webcomic, which will take you through the archive, at a rate faster than the new comics update. This lets you get up to date on comics with large archives, without spending hours or days trawling the archive in one go." - Daniel W. Crompton from Bookmarklet

You'd never have to do that for me, since I suck at board games. :) - Jon, the Chilled Beartato

I'm a bad winner and a sore loser, so I work towards a WIN-WIN! - Daniel W. Crompton

As the resident food expert - at least in my eyes - what do you think about lasagna sauce: Should it taste slightly too salty before pouring over the leaves with the bechamel? Or not so salty? I was advised by a chef I trust and who makes fantastic lasagna to try the former, which is in the oven now. - Daniel W. Crompton

"A story from the United Kingdom this week reported that the nation’s military recruits were training without live ammunition, due to a more than $1 billion shortfall in the country’s military budget. Soldiers-in-training were using computer simulations instead of real rounds, to save the $0.30 (USD) or so per bullet that would be expended using live rounds, as a kind of real-life version of the military simulation portrayed in Chris Carter’s short-lived television drama Harsh Realm." - Daniel W. Crompton from Bookmarklet

I found the lyrics for the Dutch version, they aren't complete, but you can't have everything: "Phinedroids en Ferbots, Phinedroids en Ferbots Phinedroids en Ferbots Phinedroids en Ferbots Wij zijn Phinedroids en Ferbots en wij zingen op die, van elektrisch, magnetisch , meganische beat beat Onze ogen zij lampen Onze neuzen van blik we hebben coole moves en een robotkick (2x) Phinedroids en Ferbots, Phinedroids en Ferbots Phinedroids en Ferbots Phinedroids en Ferbots Wij zijn Phinedroids en Ferbots en vandaag was oké maar ons werk is klaar, dus we kappen ermee onze moven zijn cooler dan een # ........ Phinedroids en Ferbots, Phinedroids en Ferbots Phinedroids en Ferbots Phinedroids en Ferbots" - Daniel W. Crompton