Explicate Brooklyn

Posted on Wednesday, April 28, 2004 @ 3:07 pm
Filed Under Dabbler, Security
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Not that there are no other fish in the ocean upon whom I can sling my hook, but who can be like my dear Betsy that loves me with such generosity of heart?

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The TechNomad

Posted on Sunday, April 4, 2004 @ 11:32 am
Filed Under Bicycling, Computing, Lost Friends, Model 100, Stories
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Steven K. Roberts is a person I might have been. We even look kind of alike. He grew up a nomad; I grew up a bureaucrat....

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Witty

Posted on Sunday, March 28, 2004 @ 8:23 pm
Filed Under Computing, Security
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Witty seems to have been an orchestrated attack, albeit using an opportunistic method.  The paper argues convincingly that we're using the wrong security model; if we don't change, the bad guys are gonna take down a lot of computers.  Doesn't matter if it's a prank or something really malicious, it's going to be costly regardless.

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Tungsten

Posted on Sunday, March 28, 2004 @ 11:49 am
Filed Under Computing, Dabbler, Stories
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Turns out I don't think the laptop makes a satisfactory PDA, despite its obvious advantages and excellent form factor, so I bought a Palm Tungsten E the other day and have been whipping it into shape.  It's a pretty slick device.

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POPFile on PowerBook

Posted on Friday, March 26, 2004 @ 12:21 pm
Filed Under Dabbler, POPfile
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I resisted installing POPfile for several weeks--partly because I wanted to be more familiar with the Mac environment before installing something so far out of the ordinary, and partly because I wanted to give mail.app's junk filter a test.  By January's end, it was pretty clear that the Junk Mail filter doesn't work as well as I'd like, and I missed POPfile's more general mail sorting capabilities.  As I've mentioned before, I sort incoming mail into a couple dozen categories.  Teaching POPfile to recognize those categories lets me get by with two dozen rules, rather than a couple hundred.  Much better.

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