Neil Hopcroft

What now? I left Symbian without ceremony on Friday. The local pubs were closed ‘out of respect for Fred Moss’, so we didn’t even get ourselves to the pub for lunch. Thats a weird kind of respect – more of a fear of invasion by the mourners. A unique bunch, he was, as I understand […]

Dear lazyweb…(blame jwz)…I’ve gotten the cygwin X server running, anyone got any clues to install a window manager in it? Everything runs in a big pile in the top left corner of the screen….looks like twm is nearly the kind of thing I’m looking for.

Taking self-build a step too far

“Leper Madonna” – an exercise in publicity and offshoring…

I was looking at a scope trace of ‘Musicians are Morons’ by 2nd Gen and wondering if it spelled out the songs title if only I could get the scan rate right….that’d would be somewhat cooler than having the Aphex Twins face turn up on the voiceprint….if you were a noise merchant with more respect […]

“The Attack Vector Test Platform was written over the course of research for the paper and presentation titled “A Comparison Buffer Overflow Prevention Implementations & Weaknesses”” This, and other useful tools, can be found here, pGraph looks particularly interesting….but of course I’ll be running them in a safe environment, until I’m confident they’re behaving.

Theres something of a recurring theme in my social interactions at the moment – they all seem to start badly but pick up just as I’m about to give up and go home. Saturday I arrived outside a development of flats in Bishop Stortford to find that I didn’t know which door I should be […]

One for johnfkent: “1. Why would you want to get scurvy? There are as many reasons for getting scurvy as there are people with scurvy. Some have been personally wronged by citrus fruit or the Florida Orange Growers association. Some treat it as a religious experience, believing that God is anti-fruit (see Psalm 78:47, Mark […]

Calling Gamers…anyone up for a gaming session here (Milton, Cambridge) saturday afternoon? Kick off around 2pm. Ask if you need directions. Bring a chair.

“Windows Ke- errr Command Key – Now built into every configuration of the new P-P-P-PowerBook G4 family: a crossed out windows key that now functions as a command key! Based on the original key, the new command key is just as annoying as the windows key. When you think you’re having fun in a game, […]