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Entries from September 2004

 

Spread Firefox

As part of the Spread Firefox project, this is my part. Please remember that Internet Explorer fucks things up.

Firefox is:
  • Faster
  • More Secure
  • More Standards Compliant
  • Under more devlopment (regular new features)
  • Free

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Thursday, September 30. 2004
Posted by Dominic White in Geek
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Last modified on 2004-10-11 00:02
 

MS04-028

The internet has been abuzz with this latest vulnerability in windows software.

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Thursday, September 30. 2004
Posted by Dominic White in Security
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Last modified on 2004-10-13 02:37
 

Computer Security is naughty

I just found this on packetstorm and thought I had to share it. It is a description of a sexual encounter descibed using only terms from computer science and security.

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Thursday, September 30. 2004
Posted by Dominic White in Security
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Last modified on 2004-10-10 23:18
 

Backwards Debate

Tonight was the backwards debate. I was asked to participate. This is a great honour and I felt rather uncomfortable in the shoes of such greats as Andy Rey and Nick Ferreria.

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Wednesday, September 29. 2004
Posted by Dominic White in Play
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Design Patterns

Yusuf just gave a seminar on design patterns (the book). Fairly interesting.

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Wednesday, September 22. 2004
Posted by Dominic White in Masters
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Last modified on 2004-09-22 12:41
 

SRC Summit

On Wednesday evening I will be leaving for the first National SRC Summit. I will be accompanied by a mix of new and old SRC peeps, namley, Telana (the new president and ex-Community councillor), Vicky (the new Vice-President and ex-General Secretary), Verashni (the ex-Academic Councillor) and Siya (the new Media Councillor).

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Tuesday, September 21. 2004
Posted by Dominic White in Politics
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Last modified on 2005-05-10 17:53
 

Clique

Our intrepid semantic web explorer, Russell Cloran, has released Rhodes' own social networking service, Clique.

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Tuesday, September 21. 2004
Posted by Dominic White in Geek
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Last modified on 2004-10-11 03:09
 

The World According to Bush

I watched this documentary on SABC 3's show, Special Assignment last night. It was amazing.

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Monday, September 20. 2004
Posted by Dominic White in Play
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Last modified on 2004-09-21 11:19
 

Intrusion Prevention System

I was wondering what the best way of coupling the firewall and IDS are. Then I found snort-inline.

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Friday, September 17. 2004
Posted by Dominic White in Masters
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Last modified on 2004-09-21 02:23
 

Death and Cancer

Someone I know is dying of cancer.

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Friday, September 17. 2004
Posted by Dominic White in Play
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Last modified on 2004-09-20 12:54
 

Learn to Hack

Fresh from packetstorm security.

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Thursday, September 16. 2004
Posted by Dominic White in Security
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Last modified on 2004-10-10 23:18
 

SAU SRC

We met with the president of the South African Union of SRC's today.

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Sunday, September 12. 2004
Posted by Dominic White in Politics
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Last modified on 2005-05-10 17:54
 

Home sweet Homeless

I am back from Capetown, exhausted and homeless.

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Friday, September 10. 2004
Posted by Dominic White in Play
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Last modified on 2004-09-12 19:06
 

SATNAC 2004 - Day 3

Well by now this conference has ben well described by D-Arb (one, two and three), Ingrid (one, two and three) , Yusuf (one and two), Shaggy and Barry.

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Thursday, September 9. 2004
Posted by Dominic White in Masters
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Last modified on 2005-09-20 11:38
 

Pick 'n Pay

Barry organised for me to spend a day at Pick 'n Pay's IT department. Thanks to Pieter Blauuw for the tour and organising everything for me.

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Thursday, September 9. 2004
Posted by Dominic White in Masters
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Last modified on 2004-09-15 06:37
 
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