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The Romans' Horses' Asses

Humor

From the ESD Journal:

The US standard railroad gauge (width between the two rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number...

http://www.esdjournal.com/articles/funny/chariot.htm

posted by Loki on Mon, 23 Apr 2001 08:52:13 -0500

Wired Weird News

Technology

From Wired News:

2:00 a.m. 19.Apr.2001 PDT What happens when artificial intelligence becomes far smarter than humans? What will keep it friendly? The Singularity Institute says it has the answers for what happens during the next stage of humanity's evolution. By Declan McCullagh.

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/1,1282,43080,00.html

posted by Loki on Sun, 22 Apr 2001 20:00:46 -0500

You Don't Need to See This Attachment.

Microsoft

Culled from SANS Newsbites:

--6 April 2001 Outlook 2002 Will Restrict Attachments

In an effort to protect users from viruses, Outlook 2002 will reject more than 30 types of file attachments, including .exe, .bat, and .vbs files, CD images and screen-savers. The new restrictions will make it more difficult for people to share information as the feature is very difficult to disable. Security expert Richard Smith supports Microsoft's endeavor and suggests people compress files they wish to send to others; other experts believe Microsoft should fix its essential security problems instead of treating the symptoms.

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-5529034.html?tag=prntfr

posted by Loki on Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:04:31 -0500

BSD from a Linux Perspective

BSD

I came across an interesting article (which may be old news for some) today comparing BSD and Linux. Clearly, it's biased in favor of BSD, but then again, so am I. Naddy (the author) is a regular contributor to OpenBSD.

posted by Loki on Thu, 19 Apr 2001 22:35:53 -0500

Welcome to technomagik.net

Announcements

Welcome to technomagik.net, a PHP-Nuke site.

It's running PHP 5.0 Beta on PHP4/MySQL/OpenBSD.

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- Loki

posted by Loki on Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:08:47 -0500