For those visitor who uses OS X, I would advise everyone to read this Security Advisory and take the necessary workarounds to close the security hole.
The West (Wing) meets the East
I am glad that the people of Hong Kong have became more politically active since I left in 1990.
We were always labeled by the British as apolitical and money-grabbing. Things and people must have changed in the last decade. For the better in this case, I must say.
Dilbert or Not Dilbert?
Interesting discussion is taking place at this Slashdot article, Companies Move Away From Cubicle Culture. I have some unique insight to this ‘solution’ as I work in a nice size cubicle at the client’s site but in a shared/open floor plan area when I traveled to the company’s office.
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Joy of Unix and Fink
So I got bored enough yesterday to install Fink and FinkCommander. These will allow me to install Mono and let me do C# on my TiBook.
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Safe Jacking?
“Jack Sharing” seems to have became main stream as Wired News ran a story about it, Feel Free to Jack Into My IPod. Personally I have not seen this happen in my Tri-State area but let’s face it, I don’t have spare time during the day to have leisurely walk. And there is something personal about sharing your musical taste to a ‘real’ stranger. Sharing over the net is pretty annoymous, most of the time you just download the track you want and that’s it. But with “jack sharing”, you are standing right there in front of the stranger while sampling her/his music. Not sure I like that. Now, if I were approached by a beatiful blonde woman with a iPod to “jack share”, things may be different 😉 Somehow I don’t see that happening in Manhattan but I will keep my fingers crossed and my eyes peeled…
Lost in Colonisation 