thanks to Donncha

for finding these, looks like a bit of fun.

CSS Techniques Roundup – 20 CSS Tips & Tricks

R

whilst catching up on some feed reading, I found this article LXer: Linux Users: Consider a free anti-virus program for your desktop.

the author explains of his need to work with windows machines over a short period of time, and after that experience feeling the make sure there were no nasties lying on his linux box. So he ran linux antivirus package, called f-prot.

After running this program, he found a number of windows virus in his inbox. This brings me to the anecdote I was going to recount. Due to some some technical considerations, my work laptop is a dual boot Ubuntu and XP machine. I have it set up so that I can share my Firefox mail between the OS’s (rather handy).

I tend to do most of my work under linux, and occassionally have to boot into windows. When in windows land, I have Symantec Corporate antivirus running, which faithfully stops (as far as I can tell) all viruses before they get into my inbox.

On my Ubuntu partition, I have no Symantec, nor any other antivirus software. So what happens, is that over a period of time, some nasties make their way into the inbox. No immediate danger methinks, grand. So the next I boot into windows, and Symantec dutifully catches on its missed scans, it goes,

“Ohh!! Look there are a couple of viruses (virii) inside this file, can’t clean them out individually, so I’ll just quarantine the inbox (or whatever mailbox file it finds contaminated), and that’ll be great”.

Although not quite, as when you then launch your thunderbird, it no longer finds the mailbox that has been quarantined by Symantec antivirus.
Is this
- Recoverable? yes
- Annoying ? yes
- Can it be helped? Yes! (thanks to the aforementioned article )

R

Update: these are the instructions I followed to successfully share my thunderbird between OS’s, available
here

over at the IBM developerWorks you can roll your own feed from the feeds available.

neat idea methinks. the roll your own feed page have not seen much of it around (…and maybe I have not been looking in the right places!)

R

the two links below are to articles that were written about my dad in the local paper, The Mayo news, I had previously blogged the first article, but it took me a while to get the second one up here.

so here they are assembled,

Article 1, published February 23, 2005.
Article 2, published March 8, 2005.

Tommy Eibrand saw war in all its brutal forms. As cameraman with a Swedish television crew his pictures articulated across the television screens of his native country the flash points of conflict, the revolutions, the killings, the bloodshed, the suffering . . . and the futility of it all.

(via Cynical-C)

very cool, and nicely done, x-wing from a metro parisian metro ticket.

from a couple of these	he made one of these
	…

R

saw the following sig on a Security Focus mailing list,

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember, amateurs built the ark; professionals built the Titanic.

sheer madness, but I suppose someone had to come up with it!!! and anyway its better than a microwave!

p.s. do not user a microwave to dry your dog!

This site for MESSENGER: MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging, has a nice vid

Several hundred images, taken with the wide-angle camera in MESSENGER’s Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), were sequenced into a movie documenting the view from MESSENGER as it departed Earth.

Looks really good, vid is viewable here (4.58 Mb)

(via Lambda the ultimate)

Very shortly, I will be listening to Guido van Rossum – Discussing Building an Open Source Project and Community.

Should be an interesting listen.

R

(via Petroglyphs)

You must take a look at these…

The rest of the site is also worth checking out: http://www.cloudappreciationsociety.org/.

R