Monthly Archives: February 2007

Poisonous Potatoes

Posted on February 18, 2007 by Huw Lynes

This weekend the Independent has run an article about an environmental pressure-group GM Watch publishing a report that claims that Genetically Modified (GM) potatoes are unsafe for human consumption. Upon further inspection this report was actually published by GM Free … Continue reading →

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Solaris 10 and Telnet

Posted on February 13, 2007 by Huw Lynes

Yes it’s still turned on by default at least in Solaris 10 update 2. That’ll teach me not to portscan new *nix installs where I’m not completely familiar with the OS defaults. Seriously though, is there a good reason for … Continue reading →

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TLS and UML = PITA

Posted on February 11, 2007 by Huw Lynes

So it’s sunday and I decide to run apt-get on my Debian box which hosts this here blog and the peapod project page. Mysql 5 gets an update. apt-get stops it: apt-get starts it: and it dies on it’s arse. … Continue reading →

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