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• 2005-12-31: A log, painful, history of time.
• 2005-12-30: Countering trusting trust through diverse double-compiling.
• 2005-12-29: Cambridge pubs and Google maps.
• 2005-12-29: Kitten war!
• 2005-12-24: Ingy: the name change with rock dots.
• 2005-12-23: Comparison Of Secure Email Technologies: X.509 / PKI, PGP, and IBE.
• 2005-12-22: A critique of Abelson and Sussman: why calculating is better than scheming.
• 2005-12-22: The structure and interpretation of the computer science curriculum.
• 2005-12-22: The undergraduate language course: what to do?
• 2005-12-21: An excellent IPv6 deployment report.
• 2005-12-18: Efficient method dispatch in PCL.
• 2005-12-18: Composing Contracts: and adventure in financial engineering.
• 2005-12-18: Comparison of dynamic string libraries.
• 2005-12-18: Interactive Connectivity Establishment via NATs for SIP
• 2005-12-18: Security for JEP-0065.
• 2005-12-16: Gatewaying Jingle and SIP.
• 2005-12-16: Jingle mailing list archives.
• 2005-12-16: Jabberd2 storage backend migration.
• 2005-12-16: Notification of new email via Jabber with procmail and perl.
• 2005-12-14: The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851.
• 2005-12-13: Edinburgh guided bus doesn't work (2).
• 2005-12-13: Edinburgh guided bus doesn't work (1).
• 2005-12-13: Mac Rumours buyers' guide.
• 2005-12-12: Proto-JEPs.
• 2005-12-12: Jabber MUC ChatBot.
• 2005-12-12: Bank Holidays in England.
• 2005-12-12: tcpcp - TCP connection passing.
• 2005-12-12: CryoPID - single-process software suspend for Linux.
• 2005-12-09: Matthias Wimmer's Jabber software.
• 2005-12-08: ML Module Mania.
• 2005-12-08: Bob Jenkins: filling space with orbiting satellites.
• 2005-12-08: Bob Jenkins: Hash functions and block ciphers.
• 2005-12-06: RFC 4287: the Atom syndication format.
• 2005-12-05: Palaver: Jabber multi-user chat component written in Python.
• 2005-12-05: Jabberd2 patches.
• 2005-12-05: Implementing Ken Thompson's 1968 regex algorithm.
• 2005-12-05: University of Cambridge Raven project.
• 2005-12-05: University of Washington pubcookie.
• 2005-12-05: Stanford Webauth v3.
• 2005-12-05: Yale Central Authentication Service.
• 2005-12-05: Linux web browser with bells and whistles on FreeBSD.
• 2005-12-04: Twisted: a Python networking library.
• 2005-12-04: Dave Cridland's IMAP and ACAP stuff.
• 2005-12-02: Text-to-XML conversion using XSLT 2.0.
• 2005-12-02: Brompton frame parts in a box.
• 2005-12-01: David Tribble's longtime_t proposal.
• 2005-12-01: Tunnels at CMU.
• 2005-12-01: Bullets hitting fruit etc.
• 2005-12-01: Over-engineered chair repair.
• 2005-12-01: The history of short names of USA federal legislation.
• 2005-11-29: Peter Saint-Andre's draft JEPs.
• 2005-11-04: A timelapse film made by Tom.
• 2005-11-04: IETF Jabber chat rooms.
• 2005-11-04: Podcast of the SICP lectures.
• 2005-11-02: Reserved identifiers in C and C++.
• 2005-11-01: Proposed Haskell time library.
• 2005-11-01: Sony installs rootkits on customers' machines.
• 2005-11-01: Collaborative English Law Glossary.
• 2005-11-01: Maps of UK climate.
• 2005-11-01: Threads cannot be implemented as a library.
• 2005-11-01: Shared memory consistency models: a tutorial.
• 2005-10-31: "Enterprise software" is a social, not technical, phenomenon.
• 2005-10-31: Grice's Conversational Maxims.
• 2005-10-31: Oxford University Library Service organization plan.
• 2005-10-26: Technical reasons for the dual function/value namespaces in Lisp.
• 2005-10-26: Haskell inner-loop compilation: jhc vs. ghc.
• 2005-10-25: Official UK bird flu logo (from the Foreign Office).
• 2005-10-25: More Google Print satire.
• 2005-10-24: Causes of resonance in London's Millennium Footbridge.
• 2005-10-24: Torotrak continuously-variable transmission.
• 2005-10-24: Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming used against Lispers.
• 2005-10-24: Tim O'Reilly on Google Print.
• 2005-10-24: Stanford on iTunes.
• 2005-10-24: John C. Dvorak on the Mac-biased tech media.
• 2005-10-24: MICROS~1 research tutorial on filtering spam.
• 2005-10-24: Student-oriented information about computing facilities at Cambridge.
• 2005-10-21: Fallbrook Technologies NuVinci continuously variable planetary transmission.
• 2005-10-21: Rogue banks and phantom withdrawals.
• 2005-10-21: Sadly, I can never un-read anything.
• 2005-10-20: Recordings of seminars hosted by the Long Now Foundation.
• 2005-10-20: C#: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: An Interview with Anders Hejlsberg, Part 1.
• 2005-10-20: Messaging anti-abuse working group: managing port 25.
• 2005-10-20: Andy Oram: Why they are talking about "Internet governance".
• 2005-10-20: Interview with Larry Wall.
• 2005-10-19: OSCON 2005 keynote from Dick Haardt about Identity 2.0.
• 2005-10-19: Composable transations for concurrent programming in Haskell.
• 2005-10-19: Maurice Herlihy's composable transactions for C#.
• 2005-10-19: Company-wide instant messaging with jabberd.
• 2005-10-19: Efficient software transactional memory.
• 2005-10-19: The Gmail trademark dispute gets nastier.
• 2005-10-18: Tact filters.
• 2005-10-17: Reverse engineered colour laser printer watermarks.
• 2005-10-17: Ozgur Simsek and David Jensen: Decentralized search in networks using homophily and degree disparity.
• 2005-10-17: Pedestrian == terrorist.
• 2005-10-17: Tim O'Reilly: What is web 2.0?
• 2005-10-13: Google 2084.
• 2005-10-13: How to write like a wanker.
• 2005-10-11: The 1986 Domesday project.
• 2005-10-10: DHCP and OS fingerprinting for campus network security.
• 2005-10-07: The canonical Internet vs X.400 debate.
• 2005-10-07: Smack my bitch up / Orinoco flow.
• 2005-10-07: BCP 78 is broken.
• 2005-10-07: A natural history of the @ sign.
• 2005-10-06: Optimising for fun.
• 2005-10-06: (Re-)Recordable DVD compatibility.
• 2005-10-04: Alphamail - webmail software that doesn't hammer the IMAP server.
• 2005-10-04: Cyrusoft, producers of Mulberry, go bankrupt.
• 2005-10-04: Rodney Haywood's anti-Outlook page.
• 2005-10-04: Lots of stuff about UW Pine.
• 2005-10-04: Design patterns for hiagh availability.
• 2005-10-04: Architecture of safety-critical systems.
• 2005-09-30: PBS: a class divided - a documentary of Jane Elliott's brown eyes / blue eyes racism teaching exercise.
• 2005-09-30: Satellite photo with tube map superimposed.
• 2005-09-30: A live chat with Rod Chavez of Google Talk.
• 2005-09-29: List of zip codes, including international codes.
• 2005-09-29: Say no to 0870 - translate expensive phone numbers into geographical numbers.
• 2005-09-28: Continuations from Generalized Stack Inspection.
• 2005-09-27: Another kind of pump-and-dump spam.
• 2005-09-26: Web 2.0 is here - tags, ajax, blogs, wikis.
• 2005-09-26: Theiving Bromptons and fencing them via eBay.
• 2005-09-26: Absurd multi-wheeled cycles.
• 2005-09-23: Choose your secondary nameservers carefully.
• 2005-09-22: The law of standards.
• 2005-09-16: Failure to Thrive: QoS and the Culture of Operational Networking
• 2005-09-16: The New Highway Code.
• 2005-09-16: East Coast Main Line strategic review.
• 2005-09-15: ARPA-DARPA-Internet: a history of the introduction of TCP/IP.
• 2005-09-15: RFK 821: SMTP polymorph command
• 2005-09-13: Google - Extracting knowledge from the WWW.
• 2005-09-12: Documentation for CompleteWhois DNS IP lists.
• 2005-09-12: DNS blacklist accuracy, Aug 2005, according to SpamAssassin.
• 2005-09-12: 20 years ago in the IETF.
• 2005-09-12: "Botnets are a kind of industrial revolution in hacking."
• 2005-09-09: Why architectural complexity is like body fat.
• 2005-09-09: Bit-twiddling powers of 2.
• 2005-09-09: Salon.com: Religious right would kill to stop safe sex
• 2005-09-08: Survey of uses of the word "envelope" in the RFCs.
• 2005-09-08: A survey of bad science reporting.
• 2005-09-06: Dynamic cyclic data structures in lazy functional languages.
• 2005-09-06: Burwell to Wicken Fen cycle route - council press release.
• 2005-09-05: New Orleans is vital to the US economy.
• 2005-09-05: Object-oriented programming in ANSI C.
• 2005-08-30: MD5 collision, visualized.
• 2005-08-30: GNU mailutils.
• 2005-08-30: libEtPan - email access library.
• 2005-08-30: IETF 63 survey results.
• 2005-08-30: Inductive graphs and functional graph algorithms.
• 2005-08-30: Rugby MSF slow code.
• 2005-08-26: Java sucks.
• 2005-08-26: (dot)local: developer resources for zeroconf, mDNS, and DNS-SD.
• 2005-08-26: DNS service discovery.
• 2005-08-25: Brad Fitzpatrick's disk cache checker.
• 2005-08-24: Vulnerabilities in tamper-evident PIN letters.
• 2005-08-20: A Google programming language for large-scale data mining.
• 2005-08-20: Breakdancing Transformers.
• 2005-08-18: Revised Report on the Algorithmic Language ALGOL 68.
• 2005-08-18: Algol 68 genie.
• 2005-08-18: Damian Conway's papers, including SPECS: an alternative syntax for C++.
• 2005-08-18: Infixing operators in SML.
• 2005-08-18: Comparing implementations of a ray tracer in different languages.
• 2005-08-17: Red car / black car.
• 2005-08-16: A Dictionary of units of measurement.
• 2005-08-15: Knot hacks.
• 2005-08-15: SGO party calendar.
• 2005-08-15: Some non-spam stats.
• 2005-08-12: Building a monocycle for Scrapheap Challenge.
• 2005-08-12: Google factory tour.
• 2005-08-12: A board game based on cat chess.
• 2005-08-12: Cat chess.
• 2005-08-11: Where are all the three button mice?
• 2005-08-11: User interface design for secure systems.
• 2005-08-11: Why type systems are interesting.
• 2005-08-11: Photograph taken at the instant of destruction of the camera.
• 2005-08-11: A FAQ about spinning pens.
• 2005-08-10: Efficient submatch addressing for regular expressions.
• 2005-08-10: The TRE regex library.
• 2005-08-08: Using Exim and LDAP to query an Active Directory for valid users.
• 2005-08-08: A profile of Andrew Ritchie.
• 2005-08-08: Bike speed and power calculator.
• 2005-08-08: Digital Needle: a virtual gramophone.
• 2005-08-03: SPF loses mindshare.
• 2005-08-02: Alt-N Technologies.
• 2005-08-02: DKIM implementation from Alt-N Technologies.
• 2005-07-29: Suresh Ramasubramanian on SPF.
• 2005-07-29: DDOS mitigation techniques.
• 2005-07-28: "email is something you use with old people"
• 2005-07-28: Personal Offshoring.
• 2005-07-27: Podsafe music links.
• 2005-07-27: DSN support for Exim.
• 2005-07-27: Cisco remote-code-execution hole cover-up?
• 2005-07-27: Pay and Grading graces.
• 2005-07-27: Pay and Grading notice.
• 2005-07-27: Proposed amendments to the Pay and Grading graces.
• 2005-07-26: Jezlife.
• 2005-07-26: Completewhois multi-rbl lookup.
• 2005-07-26: MAAWG SPF & SID white paper.
• 2005-07-26: DHTML Lemmings.
• 2005-07-26: Blame-shifting and credit-stealing in ICMP vulnerability disclosure.
• 2005-07-25: Conference on email and anti-spam 2005 papers.
• 2005-07-25: Spread: high-performance reliable multicast.
• 2005-07-25: Microsoft explains how to ask for help.
• 2005-07-25: Photographs of my wedding.
• 2005-07-25: Blogging survey results.
• 2005-07-07: Type system support for units of measurement. (Andrew Kennedy)
• 2005-07-06: The design of C++0X.
• 2005-07-05: Precision sundials.
• 2005-07-04: A talk about problems with software patents, by Wookie from Aleph-1.
• 2005-07-04: SRP: Secure Remote Password.
• 2005-07-04: TV-B-Gone.
• 2005-07-04: Automatic coin sorter.
• 2005-07-03: Design Concepts in Programming Languages - draft of book.
• 2005-06-28: The successor to C99: working document.
• 2005-06-28: Grammatical errors in "The New C Standard".
• 2005-06-28: FTC spam zombie recommendations.
• 2005-06-26: Risk factors in cycling.
• 2005-06-26: On some broken email auto-responders.
• 2005-06-24: De facto standards are more effective than de jure.
• 2005-06-24: Live lightning map.
• 2005-06-24: Logicalware mailmanager: email response management software.
• 2005-06-24: Popular spellings of braaaaaaaaaains.
• 2005-06-23: FTC email authentication feedback.
• 2005-06-23: Rambling Rosa "Kiftsgate".
• 2005-06-23: PSP grey imports are illegal.
• 2005-06-23: Fast queue runner for Exim.
• 2005-06-22: Inside a Sturmey-Archer 8-speed hub gear.
• 2005-06-22: An RSS-to-email gateway.
• 2005-06-21: All about the TGV.
• 2005-06-21: Trains are better than planes.
• 2005-06-21: "The New C Standard - An Economic and Cultural Commentary" complete PDF.
• 2005-06-21: "The New C Standard - An Economic and Cultural Commentary" will not be published.
• 2005-06-20: SUSE packaging conventions.
• 2005-06-20: Cambridge makes you happy and Oxford makes you sad.
• 2005-06-18: The importance of RSS.
• 2005-06-18: Open-air art and sculpture in Cambridge.
• 2005-06-17: Oxford and Cambridge cycling survey results.
• 2005-06-16: Linux syslogd sometimes hangs and wedges the whole machine.
• 2005-06-16: IRC in Latin.
• 2005-06-16: Bottom-Up Beta-Substitution: Uplinks and Lambda-DAGs.
• 2005-06-15: Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi (pub. MIT Press).
• 2005-06-15: USA to ban flag-burning.
• 2005-06-15: Digital TV broadcast from a monitor.
• 2005-06-15: Music radio broadcast from a monitor.
• 2005-06-14: Fight over LEMONADE and the Multimedia Messaging Service.
• 2005-06-14: Group authentication for the web (see also OpenID).
• 2005-06-14: "I will refuse to register for an ID card and will donate £10 to a legal defence fund but only if 10,000 other people will also make this same pledge."
• 2005-06-13: Where is London Underground under the ground?
• 2005-06-13: Geek Image: display an updating image on the Mac OS X dashboard.
• 2005-06-13: Some behind-the-scenes Mac OS X options.
• 2005-06-13: CLIX Mac OS X power tool.
• 2005-06-13: SSH key chain for Mac OS X.
• 2005-06-13: London cycling design standards.
• 2005-06-10: Funniest wikipedia edit wars ever.
• 2005-06-08: Team Cymru / NSP-sec network health reports.
• 2005-06-08: NSP-sec NANOG BOF.
• 2005-06-08: NSP-security mailing list.
• 2005-06-03: Ajax Reconsidered.
• 2005-06-02: Logo hell.
• 2005-06-02: The Invisible Train: augmented reality on handhelds.
• 2005-06-02: So does Norman Foster.
• 2005-06-02: James Dyson loves Alex Moulton's bikes.
• 2005-06-01: A list of latin phrases.
• 2005-06-01: Philip Hazel's music typesetting software.
• 2005-05-30: Find fonts by sight.
• 2005-05-29: ID cards will be expensive.
• 2005-05-27: ZMail easy secure email.
• 2005-05-27: Pen: a load balancer for "simple" tcp based protocols.
• 2005-05-27: You and your research - Richard Hamming.
• 2005-05-27: Long hours don't work.
• 2005-05-27: Suresh Ramasubramanian on Spam for the OECD.
• 2005-05-26: Swatch: log watcher.
• 2005-05-26: Some cycling rules.
• 2005-05-26: RFC 3339: Date and time on the Internet: Timestamps.
• 2005-05-26: Jef Poskanzer on spam filtering.
• 2005-05-25: Other Jim Austen computers.
• 2005-05-25: Where Phoenix went after Cambridge.
• 2005-05-19: Google content blocker.
• 2005-05-19: mIDm self-identification on the world wide web.
• 2005-05-19: OpenID distributed identity system.
• 2005-05-16: TV piracy.
• 2005-05-13: The Pedersen bicycle.
• 2005-05-12: The Laws of Identity.
• 2005-05-11: [Exim] exilimit.c
• 2005-05-11: Living in the future.
• 2005-05-10: Julian Wiseman on financial markets and electoral systems.
• 2005-05-08: The Algol Bulletin.
• 2005-05-08: Die Homepage von W.B.Kloke - Algol 68 stuff.
• 2005-05-05: Estimated constituency result declaration times.
• 2005-05-05: Time series analysis.
• 2005-05-05: On the effectiveness of rate-limiting mechanisms.
• 2005-05-05: DNS root anycast stability.
• 2005-05-05: Smoothing of data.
• 2005-05-05: Usenet poster rate limiting.
• 2005-05-04: A cycling glossary.
• 2005-05-04: Interdoc: The first international non-governmental computer network.
• 2005-05-04: llama llama llama
• 2005-05-03: GCC 3.4 vs. GCC 4.0.
• 2005-05-03: [Exim] Deferring email when clamd is down.
• 2005-05-03: On the analysis of anti-spam software performance.
• 2005-05-02: Building a free PVR.
• 2005-05-02: The Monad Reader - a Haskell web mag.
• 2005-04-29: Email performance and reliability testing.
• 2005-04-29: Bit twiddling hacks.
• 2005-04-28: USB Ethernet on Macs.
• 2005-04-27: About Bagle (3).
• 2005-04-27: About Bagle (2).
• 2005-04-27: About Bagle (1).
• 2005-04-27: Combating Web Spam with TrustRank.
• 2005-04-27: Mac Mini accessories.
• 2005-04-27: Dictionary of idioms.
• 2005-04-27: Rewards are punishments.
• 2005-04-27: DNS zone checker.
• 2005-04-27: TLD configuration problem checker.
• 2005-04-27: Snails faster than ADSL.
• 2005-04-21: The root of the matter: hints or slaves.
• 2005-04-20: Greylisting CVS.
• 2005-04-20: DNS cacheing and performance analysis.
• 2005-04-20: MIT Disco Dance Floor.
• 2005-04-19: Messaging hygiene at Microsoft.
• 2005-04-19: Bridge of CRTs.
• 2005-04-15: Spoof papers for fraudulent "scientific" conferences.
• 2005-04-13: Mad bike.
• 2005-04-12: Systems analysis of spam by Gabriel Weinberg.
• 2005-04-12: Joe on Zombies.
• 2005-04-12: Joe St Sauver - uoregon mail admin.
• 2005-04-12: Excellent port 25 blocking advocacy.
• 2005-04-11: Over-engineered bike lights.
• 2005-04-11: Simon Moore's University house style LaTeX macros.
• 2005-04-10: Poke the penguin.
• 2005-04-09: Another view of a Moebius strip with a circular edge.
• 2005-04-09: Maple code for drawing Moebius strips.
• 2005-04-09: Moebius strips with circular edges.
• 2005-04-08: Sennheiser HD 212 Pro specifications.
• 2005-04-08: The lies of the RIAA.
• 2005-04-07: Green electricity supplier.
• 2005-04-07: Domestic wind power.
• 2005-04-07: Rack mounted wine storage.
• 2005-04-05: The Manchester/Ferranti Atlas and the Cambridge Titan/Atlas 2.
• 2005-04-04: The Concrete Jungle by Charlie Storss.
• 2005-04-03: Anti-hagiography.
• 2005-04-01: Charlie Stross trancends.
• 2005-03-29: Interview with Robin Milner.
• 2005-03-29: Haskell Quotes.
• 2005-03-29: DNS Anycast at Berkeley.
• 2005-03-29: ISC DNS Anycast.
• 2005-03-29: Deploying IP Anycast at CMU.
• 2005-03-25: Fractal borders between the Netherlands and Belgium.
• 2005-03-24: V.A.T. and food.
• 2005-03-22: Funky time signatures.
• 2005-03-21: Haskell Users' Operating System and Environment.
• 2005-03-20: The Third International Conference on Trust Management.
• 2005-03-18: FreeBSD PXE boot guide.
• 2005-03-02: A celebration of David Wheeler.
• 2005-02-28: Unitarians of Transylvania.
• 2005-02-18: A fluffy guide to hash algorithms.
• 2005-02-17: CodeWorker: A universal parsing tool and a source code generator.
• 2005-02-16: JWZ on groupware.
• 2005-02-16: Cryptographic hash function lounge.
• 2005-02-11: SSL considered harmful.
• 2005-02-09: An SMTP daemon written in Haskell.
• 2005-02-04: The Porter Stemming Algorithm.
• 2005-02-04: hOp: Haskell operating system.
• 2005-02-03: The New York Review of Books on the US versus the EU.
• 2005-02-03: IMAP products database.
• 2005-02-01: RFC errata.
• 2005-01-30: EU news fact-check.
• 2005-01-27: A modern Newspeak dictionary.
• 2005-01-27: A Newspeak dictionsry.
• 2005-01-26: Some Mac software recommendations.
• 2005-01-24: Paper Enigma machine.
• 2005-01-24: Online form for reporting non-dangerous highway defects.
• 2005-01-24: Cambridgeshire County Council highways maintenance.
• 2005-01-24: Anti-spam news archive (subscribers only).
• 2005-01-21: Spheres of Chaos.
• 2005-01-21: M$ Outlook Live.
• 2005-01-21: Apatheism.
• 2005-01-19: Ian's shoelace site.
• 2005-01-18: John Perry's small discoveries.
• 2005-01-18: The social life of paper.
• 2005-01-18: Who Can Name the Bigger Number?
• 2005-01-18: History of the logarithmic slide rule.
• 2005-01-18: Most persistent bugs.
• 2005-01-18: Bayesian Noise Reduction.
• 2005-01-18: Honeypot project: Life expectancy of unpatched Linux increasing.
• 2005-01-16: Ben Hamilton-Baillie's humanist road designs.
• 2005-01-10: Pew Internet Report on Internet Evolution.
• 2005-01-10: Apple support for old products.
• 2005-01-10: Old Apple software downloads.
• 2005-01-06: The Edge annual question 2005.
• 2005-01-05: Google MapReduce.
• 2005-01-05: "I will suck the smell of grilled moron greedily down into my lungs."
• 2005-01-04: Some other linguistic devices.
• 2005-01-04: More zeugmata.
• 2005-01-04: Zeugma or syllepsis.
• 2005-01-04: Schneier on illegal aliens, drivers licences, and security.
• 2005-01-04: Sugar! Gosh darn it to heck!
• 2005-01-04: Linotype maintenance and operation.
• 2005-01-04: A description of the Linotype machine.
• 2005-01-01: Where to buy a large tippe-top.
• 2005-01-01: A nice large tippe-top.
• 2005-01-01: Hand-drawn holograms.
• 2005-01-01: Levitron: an amazing invention and a patent failure.
• 2005-01-01: Levitron: spin-stabilized magnetic levitation.
• 2005-01-01: A big tippe-top.
• 2005-01-01: The Science Museum large object archive at Wroughton.
• 2005-01-01: Tippe-top inversion as a dissipation-induced instability.
• 2005-01-01: The "tippe-top": a self-inverting spinning toy.
• 2005-01-01: The rigid body dynamics of unidirectional spin.
• 2005-01-01: The "rattleback": a self-reversing spinning toy.