Lovely. Okay developers, time to get moving — add public-key code-signing stuff, so that your programs can tell whether they’re getting a legitimate update or not. Don’t know how, and don’t have time to learn? Try the GnuPG Made Easy (GPGME) library. I’m happy to say that Ubuntu Linux isn’t affected by this, because it …
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GoddessJ and I attended a friend’s wedding over the weekend, for our friends B and L. It was… interesting. It was held in a very small town. There was only one chain hotel anywhere near, and it was booked solid before the wedding date was even set because there was some other kind of gathering …
It’s “stressed magnetic field lines that suddenly snap to a new shape, like a rubber band that’s been stretched too far.” Hm… any way to duplicate it in small-scale experiments? Probably not, but it’s an interesting proposition.
As I’m not an MS geek, I couldn’t refute the headline any better than the article does.
I’m on the phone now to Dell, trying to find out about the technician who’s supposed to be here today. Dell’s website is useless; I received an e-mail giving me explicit instructions for getting a status update from it, but when I jump through all the hoops, all it says is “Error retrieving results. Please …
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GoddessJ and I finally managed to see The Dark Knight last night, on our third try (the previous two tries were all sold out by the time we got there, for the entire evening). It’s good — damn good! After watching the scene where Batman wrecks the Batmobile, and then suddenly takes off in its …
Uh-oh! Better lock up your e-mail program ’til he’s re-caught!
I thought the whole point to science was questioning assumptions to find the truth? I hate to be classed as a Global Warming denialist (there seems to be some decent evidence that it’s happening), but there’s a distinctly over-ripe odor around the subject.
For those uber-geeks who are still following the ridiculous SCO-versus-Novell lawsuit, it looks like the end is (finally!) near: in a stunningly apropos reversal, SCO (which instigated the lawsuit) has been ordered to pay Novell for violating their rights. They probably won’t have the money, but it’s a moral victory, at least.
GoddessJ pointed this one out to me: We regret to announce that due to unforeseen circumstances beyond our control, the publication of The Astrological Magazine will cease with the December 2007 issue. So the stars didn’t say anything about that, eh? 😉