Neil Hopcroft

…is this thing on? I’ve got DSL service again! Watch out world, I’ll be answering that backlog of emails any week now…

Why does Stash the Cache (advertised as an ‘uncensored geocaching magazine’, why would you make an uncensored geocaching magazine?) point to a religious discussion forum?

Any Cambridge people around late this Saturday afternoon able to give me a hand unloading a van?

Linkblast: “It was rather disconcerting when the rubbish bin started humming furiously.” “In Cleveland, Ohio women are not allowed to wear patent-leather shoes.” Taming The Bicycle, three fat men, and other oddities

So just what the hell is this whole Hayseed Dixie thing all about, you ask?

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 […]