Goodbye PAL01 ... oh, wait...

I've only ever made 6 postings to this blog, largely because I was always concerned about the risk of losing access to it... and now so I shall.

 So, as a reminder, you are invited to read my more regular stream of thinkage at http://www.crypticide.com/dropsafe/.

 Best wishes all.

- alec

Posted by alecm [General] ( August 30, 2009 07:48 AM ) Permalink | Comments[0]

The Solaris 10 Security Feature Checklist / FAQ

... is now posted at http://blogs.sun.com/roller/resources/alecm/s10-checklist.html

Posted by alecm [General] ( June 02, 2005 12:41 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]

Cafeteria Observation...

It's almost curious; I'm just back from a rather decent lunch in the cafeteria - roasted cajun chicken, cauliflower gratin, peas and sweetcorn drizzled with pesto dressing, followed by a chocolate cheesecakey thing - and was taken by quite the mood of optimism that did pervade the tables. A lot of people chatting, throwing their heads back and laughing, talking about "new opportunities" and "fresh air". It's all rather invigorating.

Posted by alecm [General] ( May 17, 2005 12:19 PM ) Permalink | Comments[0]

Webservers that still have a Sun logo for their favicon.ico

I am accruing a list of "webservers that still have a Sun logo for their favicon.ico" over at my other weblog - and someone's just pointed out that this includes all of the US "senate.gov" websites...

Posted by alecm [General] ( May 03, 2005 02:59 PM ) Permalink | Comments[4]

normal service will be resumed very shortly...

Due to a temporary condition on PlanetSun, articles from dropsafe have been missing from the feed since late January; in order to prove that I am not actually dead (yet) or something, here's a short set of links to what you've all been missing:

• [ Erdos Amusement ]
• [ Are there any NetBSD disk experts out there? ]
• [ Serial burglar caught on webcam ]
• [ www.amateurtransplants.com ]
• [ in the spirit of 'disgruntled' ]
• [ Quad-Booting Thinkpad ! ]
• [ US info-sharing initiative called a flop ]
• [ Underwater gnome threat 'returns' ]
• [ SECURITY: Spamusement! Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines! ]
• [ so where has muffett been? ]
• [ Cornelia "Anna" Rau. pt2 ]
• [ Australian Govt Mistakenly Locks Up Aussie as Illegal Immigrant for 10 Months ]
• [ CrackLib gone onto Sourceforge ]
• [ Just like your average Firewall, then... ]
• [ Hennessy Hammocks: Hammock Tents ]
• [ Feline Screen Cleaner ]
• [ 7am and all's hell ]
• [ Funny how history repeats itself... ]
• [ Gene Kelly VW Ad ]
• [ Graffiti Excedeed ]
• [ Moronic places ]
• [ Bloxsom and targeted comments ]
• [ Global Terror? ]
• [ Jailed for using a "nonstandard" browser? ]
• [ The Law, West of Ealing Broadway ]

Ego? Perhaps, but my daily hitrate has dropped from 7500-ish to 5000-ish over the last couple of weeks, so there must be a fairly significant influence from Planet Sun.

Posted by alecm [General] ( February 21, 2005 12:01 AM ) Permalink | Comments[0]

PlanetSun never seems to get advertised...

PlanetSun never seems to get advertised... let's fix that...

Much, much earlier this year, before blogs.sun.com was created, a brave soul named David Edmondson took it upon himself to create an aggregator for the blogs of all Sun employees, and he named it http://www.planetsun.org/

It still exists.

Moreover, unlike blogs.sun.com it aggregates all those, *plus* the blogs of a significant number employees who choose to host their blogs elsewhere - and further it provides (I think) a nicer aggregate feed than does blogs.sun.com, what with titling articles with the name of the author, and other nifty features like that.

Also the HTML looks nicely minimalist.

If you're not aware of it, and/or are reading blogs.sun.com via RSS, then I do recommend you to go look.

http://www.planetsun.org/

Posted by alecm [General] ( December 14, 2004 08:29 PM ) Permalink | Comments[2]