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 Monday, December 09, 2002
The phone rings: tech support: "hello computer tech support " customer: "hello my computer was making a strange hissing noise last night and this morning when I turned it on there was a crackling noise and some smoke then nothing, if I bring it in can you fix it?" [#uiuc]
2:27:16 PM    comments ==

New Economic Policy. There are nine things President Bush should do to combat the current beat of the doldrums. By William Safire. [New York Times: Politics]
10:28:41 AM    comments ==

Trustworthy Computing does Moon Walk (but not yet). One small step for man, one giant leap for Windows XP [The Register]
The thing about "Trustworthy Computing" is that it's not about just Microsoft fining buffer overflows, it's about making computing itself more secure. I suspect that it'll be less about inventing new protocols, as getting world wide deployment on some of the stuff we already have.
9:50:17 AM    comments ==

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