Neil Hopcroft

Skimming the Argos catalogue earlier I noticed this Silver Leaf 2 Piece Toilet Seat. Outstanding, for all the wrong reasons.

I’ve just found a file called ‘cvs_sploit.c’ in my filesystem, dating from Feb last year…. “Any access to the pserver will work, anonymous is enough. The exploit tries to bind to port 30464 on the target and exec a shell on connection, It will connect there itself and pass control to you if it succeeds. […]

Caffeine contents Product Caffeine (mg)* Coffee, grande (16 oz.) Starbucks 550 Caffe Americano, short (8 oz.) Starbucks 35 Coffee, tall (12 oz.) Starbucks 375 Caffe Latte, short (8 oz.) or tall (12 oz.) Starbucks 35 …

A large collection of articles about embedded systems This is the list for ‘D’, theres another 25 letters: “Data Compression – Transmission bandwidth is always limited (hey… if you’re reading this over a 28.8kb link, you get the picture!). Data compression can help a lot. Dear Abbey – Abbey talks to developers about building embedded […]

House! I’ve got keys, and they work and everything, so I’m now officially indentured again. Or something of that nature, the contracts are so onerous these days its a wonder anyone actually manages to rent out houses at all. This one, for instance (in clause bb or so), prohibits me from immoral behaviour during my […]

…and while I’m forgetting things until just after I press the ‘send’ button – whats happened to the travelcard system? I got a one day card from Cambridge this morning which was rejected by every single barrier I tried to put it into, leading to the hunt for a guard on the gates who will […]

Oh, and while I was on the tube back to Kings Cross I spotted an advert for ‘Flake Ripped’ – whats that all about? They are just trying to outdo the guys who put guarana in their bar last year, aren’t they?

Today I finally caught up with the marvelousmrchip – the first time since his return to these shores. I dragged the poor lad along to the SymbianExpo, at Excel, to talk geek at various companies with interests in the mobile devices arena. Highlights of the show included: – Bitboys demoing their graphics accelerator and floundering […]

Mobile User Interfaces Rant: Simplicity, Hierarchy and Cruft Prevention “Though I think the S60 UI is relatively clean and useable, there are definitely a lot of friction points in the UI which cause new users problems.”

Ok, I’m worried now, when did I get a dance version of ‘killing in the name of…’?