Tony Finch's link log

Here are some links to interesting web pages which I have encountered. This list is gatewayed to Twitter, Dreamwidth, and LiveJournal. My main blog where I post longer pieces is also on Dreamwidth.

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2004-12-22: HEFCE self-assessment tool for people management in HEIs.
2004-12-22: Graham Higgins on the Apple web site.
2004-12-22: Thank Poland for stopping the EU software patents directive.
2004-12-22: The creation of the Apple Mac graphing calculator.
2004-12-17: A blog about RSS bandwidth management.
2004-12-15: Rechargeable LED lights.
2004-12-15: The creation of Kerberos in four scenes.
2004-12-15: More cycle farcilities.
2004-12-15: Watching a genius laying down the very foundations of science.
2004-12-13: Berkeley email namespace policy.
2004-12-13: HP Labs qprof.
2004-12-13: Another death waltz.
2004-12-13: A death waltz.
2004-12-13: Online Etymological Dictionary.
2004-12-13: Python Warts.
2004-12-13: Eric Mayer's S5: A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System.
2004-12-10: Cycling Farcility of the Month.
2004-12-08: Tim Hunkin's web page.
2004-12-06: MIME message/partial vulnerabilities.
2004-12-06: IP over DNS.
2004-12-03: Excellent Tube map links.
2004-12-03: PowerPoint Centimeters Different from Actual Centimeters.
2004-12-03: Requirements for Morality Sections in Routing Area Drafts.
2004-11-25: The Home Computer in 2004.
2004-11-23: Le Guin on the Earthsea film.
2004-11-22: Disclaimer stickers for school textbooks.
2004-11-22: Google tech talk at Imperial College next week.
2004-11-22: Kit Williams and Masquerade.
2004-11-22: Omniglot: a guide to writing systems.
2004-11-18: Emperor Norton Utilities.
2004-11-16: The EFF on anti-spam collateral damage.
2004-11-15: Crash Bonsai.
2004-11-11: Illiterate?
2004-11-11: Something worth having in Cambridge too.
2004-11-09: Another asynchronous resolver library.
2004-11-09: Drinking doesn't affect my driving?
2004-11-06: A compendium of US election maps.
2004-11-04: Another MUA configuration guide.
2004-11-03: NSA guide to OS X security.
2004-10-31: Cambridge Monopoly.
2004-10-29: Wooden mirror.
2004-10-27: The film "Rogue Farm" from the story by Charlie Stross.
2004-10-26: List of email DNS black and white lists.
2004-10-21: IMHO Webmail.
2004-10-18: Perl DNS server framework.
2004-10-18: Two pound coins.
2004-10-16: Security considerations for impersonation and identiry in messaging systems.
2004-10-15: Department of Cryptozoology, University of Birmingham.
2004-10-15: St. Mischa's College, University of Oxford.
2004-10-15: Turing Equivalence in Automated Systems Administration.
2004-10-14: Flash guide to electronic music genres.
2004-10-14: Big Ben.
2004-10-14: DNS resources directory.
2004-10-14: Ethical approaches to postmastering.
2004-10-07: osx2x
2004-10-07: Weapons of mass destruction.
2004-10-06: AOL states that SPF can't be used to reject email.
2004-10-06: AOL states that SPF doesn't work 20% of the time.
2004-10-06: Binaries of Emacs for Mac OS X.
2004-10-04: ESR in "loon" shocker.
2004-10-03: Qmail anti bogus bounce system.
2004-10-01: FIPR workshop in Cambridge.
2004-09-28: Client SMTP validation.
2004-09-28: Amusing satires.
2004-09-24: Mezzo bike.
2004-09-23: Death to Sender-ID.
2004-09-22: Using OpenBSD's pf OS fingerprinting to throttle email from Windows boxes.
2004-09-22: Misreading the Lord of the Rings.
2004-09-19: Stanford WebAuth v3.
2004-09-19: Another FTC spam summit link.
2004-09-19: Pete Resnick on Resent-From and Sender-ID.
2004-09-17: Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Statement of Intent.
2004-09-16: The Microsoft Sender-ID patent application.
2004-09-16: FTC email authentication summit.
2004-09-16: AOL dumps Sender-ID.
2004-09-16: Gates goes to Washington.
2004-09-14: Internet Analysis Report 2004.
2004-09-07: All about Support Vector Machines.
2004-09-06: Retro phones of the future.
2004-09-03: Drawing The Union Jack Accurately.
2004-09-03: Links to style guides.
2004-09-03: Furbeowulf.
2004-09-02: Legalistic synonymy, etc.
2004-09-02: Setting up and troubleshooting the GSSAPI authentication of SASL.
2004-09-02: ARPANET network diagram.
2004-08-31: Problems with the REPLY function in email.
2004-08-18: David Wheeler's cool stuff.
2004-08-18: Selecting cryptographic key sizes.
2004-08-17: SRS in sendmail rulesets.
2004-08-12: Live UK weather maps.
2004-08-12: Hijacked IP address blocks.
2004-08-11: Brown Bear web calendar software.
2004-08-10: Sieve extensions support matrix.
2004-08-09: One of my rants about why SPF et al. are bad ideas.
2004-08-06: SubEthaEdit: real-time collaborative editing.
2004-07-26: ATI Radeon 7000 PC to Mac conversion.
2004-07-24: About the early development of TCP/IP.
2004-07-24: Netizens: a book about the history of Usenet and the Internet.
2004-07-19: Control Mac OS X iTunes from within emacs.
2004-07-15: An excellent comparison of statistical spam classifiers.
2004-07-14: ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee report on SiteFinder.
2004-07-11: Chairman's report from the ITU WSIS spam meeting.
2004-07-11: Spam filtering for MXs.
2004-07-09: Unified SPF.
2004-07-07: Virtual desktops for Mac OS X.
2004-07-06: Even more maths jokes.
2004-07-06: More maths jokes.
2004-07-06: Maths jokes.
2004-07-05: Consumer broadband and traffic shaping.
2004-07-05: Rugby Radio station, including the recent demolition works.
2004-07-02: Weather movie.
2004-06-25: Steve Allen on leap seconds.
2004-06-25: Proceedings of the ITU colloquium on UTC.
2004-06-25: Markus Kuhn on leap seconds.
2004-06-25: Metrologia on the history of the leap second.
2004-06-25: Archives of the LEAPSECS mailing list.
2004-06-25: Bus jam.
2004-06-25: Greylisting with Exim and MySQL.
2004-06-23: Japanese for programmers.
2004-06-18: The NTP server pool project.
2004-06-17: A good Cambridge History site.
2004-06-17: Another email kook for your amusement.
2004-06-14: The Chord p2p project.
2004-06-08: Exchange 2003 SMTP-time recipient verification.
2004-06-07: Internet-Draft archive.
2004-06-06: What is the speed of an unladen swallow?
2004-05-20: Solving CAPTCHAs by obtaining work from humans in return for porn.
2004-05-19: Pretty Cambridge pictures.
2004-05-18: The Merton Time Ceremony.
2004-05-18: DomainKeys specification published.
2004-05-18: Exploiting a JVM using a desk lamp to induce memory errors.
2004-05-17: The Yost serial device wiring standard.
2004-05-15: Common Errors in English Usage.
2004-05-13: The Infinite Cat Project.
2004-05-13: Coping with Windows.
2004-05-13: Sieve tips.
2004-05-12: The Arbory Trust -- woodland burial.
2004-05-12: The Museum of Broken Packets.
2004-05-11: Balkanized North America.
2004-05-11: A guide to British Pub etiquette.
2004-05-11: More graphics-related magic.
2004-05-11: Fast inverse square root from Quake 3.
2004-05-11: Base41 not usable everywhere.
2004-05-11: Base41 for encoding 2 bytes in 3.
2004-05-10: IMail <> bogosity.
2004-05-09: European multi-language proverbs.
2004-05-05: How the Wombles came to the New Museums Site, and other stories.
2004-04-29: The gallery of regrettable food.
2004-04-27: The Standards for Efficient Cryptography group.
2004-04-26: You might be an anti-spam kook if...
2004-04-26: The Great Satan is giving away vector graphics software for the Mac.
2004-04-26: Chaos: World of Motion.
2004-04-26: To or For By With or From Everybody: A Transport of Delight.
2004-04-23: Hacker's Delight on the web.
2004-04-23: Da Vinci does badgers.
2004-04-21: Call-by-value is dual to call-by-name.
2004-04-21: The discoveries of continuations.
2004-04-20: Vacuum coffee brewers.
2004-04-19: Anti-spam at Aberystwyth University.
2004-04-14: The Lions Book on-line.
2004-04-13: Not the American Psycho view of getting into a New York restaurant.
2004-04-13: Comparing Hoare and Wirth.
2004-04-08: A nicely altered Slashdot.
2004-04-07: Why your solution to spam will not work.
2004-04-07: Email disclaimers and the law.
2004-04-07: ACAS document about email policies.
2004-04-07: Sharpe drinking game.
2004-04-01: Friendly-name email addresses considered harmful.
2004-04-01: CCTLDs and their TLD-like subdomains.
2004-04-01: Leap year FAQ.
2004-03-30: The Guardian Underground Telephone Exchange.
2004-03-29: War Rationale, version 10.0.
2004-03-26: LOAF: Friend-of-a-friend information exchange for email.
2004-03-25: Go to jail fast.
2004-03-24: Curiosities of biological nomenclature.
2004-03-23: Tube Prune.
2004-03-23: 213 things you are not allowed to do in the US Army.
2004-03-19: Online Sieve script tester.
2004-03-18: Paul Vixie's registry of personal colo providers.
2004-03-17: RISKS on the source of semantic content in bit streams.
2004-03-16: DocBook SGML and XML processing path.
2004-03-16: Seeking science fiction citations for the Oxford English Dictionary.
2004-03-15: A working postcode finder that does not require registration.
2004-03-15: St Totteringham's day.
2004-03-09: The Bovine Rectal Palpation Simulator.
2004-03-08: Classic papers in Computer Science.
2004-03-08: The International Journal of Unconventional Computing.
2004-03-08: Bogon filtering templates.
2004-03-04: The Burroughs B5000 - 40 years later and still ahead of the times?
2004-03-03: Stripping down an anti-virus engine.
2004-03-03: AV research weblog from F-Secure.
2004-03-03: A faster CiteSeer mirror.
2004-03-03: Decommissioned Halon fire suppression system control panel.
2004-03-03: Van Jacobson's stillborn 4.4BSD network stack.
2004-03-02: A WING and a cake.
2004-03-02: CUDN border port blocks. (Cam only)
2004-03-01: Military PKI usability and scalability.
2004-03-01: Greylisting.
2004-03-01: N1040: DTR 19769 - Extensions for new character data types
2004-03-01: N1021: DTR 18037 - Extensions for Embedded-C
2004-02-24: DSPAM server-side anti-spam filter.
2004-02-23: End-to-end arguments in system design.
2004-02-23: A BBC BASIC de-tokenizer.
2004-02-23: Review of the Matrix Reloaded.
2004-02-23: Cambridge and St. Ives guided busway Transport and Works Act order information.
2004-02-23: Exim DATA ACL for Received: header DNSBL checks.
2004-02-23: A legal lexicon with lots of latin translations.
2004-02-20: Standard C Rationale.
2004-02-18: IETF Calendaring and Scheduling working group.
2004-02-18: Stopping spam text messages for Orange users.
2004-02-18: Exim Wiki.
2004-02-18: Exim web forums.
2004-02-13: Virtual Matthew Garrett.
2004-02-12: Selective spam filtering at Glasgow.
2004-02-12: Selective spam filtering at Loughborough.
2004-02-12: Some entertaining movie records.
2004-02-11: What is yak-shaving?
2004-02-10: Train departure information for Cambridge.
2004-02-10: Ken Moody's continued enthusiasm for my Turing Machine.
2004-02-09: A silly DHTML game.
2004-02-05: BBC2 television channel idents.
2004-01-29: The one-question test for email virus filter authors.
2004-01-28: Robert Sedgewick analyses the Shell sort.
2004-01-26: Project Evil.
2004-01-26: CVS training manual.
2004-01-25: The world's most accurate home clock.
2004-01-23: OpenGroupware collaboration software.
2004-01-23: Orca log statistics graphing software.
2004-01-21: Berkeley troff -ms documentation.
2004-01-21: UNIX Text Processing.
2004-01-21: Forbes Magazine likes spammers.
2004-01-20: Managing trolling in a feminist forum.
2004-01-19: Qmail security broken.
2004-01-15: Big box, small contents.
2004-01-13: Showing full email headers with various software.
2004-01-12: Q249 is also good for detecting collateral spam.
2004-01-12: Some email verification links re: porkhash and q249.
2004-01-12: A DNS checker.
2004-01-08: All sorts of control sequences.
2004-01-08: XTerm control sequences.
2004-01-08: Mac OS X hacking tools.
2004-01-07: Speed kills.
2004-01-07: Louis Wain's psychotic cat pictures.
2004-01-07: Drawing on an acid trip.
2004-01-06: Tangerines and mandarins.
2004-01-05: Greylisting using MySQL.
2004-01-05: NASA report on clarity in technical writing.
2004-01-05: Five geek social fallacies.
2004-01-05: IEEE mass storage reference model.
2004-01-05: FreeBSD remote installer.

Tony Finch is <dot@dotat.at>