Monthly Archives: September 2004

Star Wars Trilogy is out!

Hmm.. Russell just received his Star Wars trilogy set, I feel like I should get it too, it was just 29.99 at WHSmith’s on the day of the release and is only 26.99 on Amazon right now. I was seriously … Continue reading

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Good Security Checklist

Kasia has compiled a good security checklist against the recent spate of ssh attacks. If you don’t know about this attack, read your log files, particularly the auth.log files and if you see repeated attempts to login as root, guest, … Continue reading

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MSN Music and the iPod

Regarding my comments on MSN Music and the lame comments by some people, Daring Fireball has made some interesting observations on the help site for MSN Music. Microsoft claim that Apple’s store uses a proprietary format and it is difficult … Continue reading

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MSN Music Store

I haven’t tried it yet, just browsed around a bit looking for songs by Billy Joel and Pearl Jam, for instance and I did find both. I had to wait quite a while for iTunes to add Billy Joel and … Continue reading

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20 years

Larry Osterman has written a brilliant post about his 20 years at Microsoft. He’s been through so many changes and reorganizations at Microsoft, he’s basically witnessed the whole of the personal computer revolution and it’s repercussions. I suppose a lot … Continue reading

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