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diseases and afflictions that work against each other

Thursday, March 4, 2004

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things: Researchers in Iowa have identified a virus related to Hep C that appears to shield its victims from the effects of HIV. Not the first time something like this has been discovered: as noted here, sickle cell anemia sufferers have an improved resistance to malaria.

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blame the victim

Wednesday, March 3, 2004

SecurityFocus HOME Columnists: Faith No More: Microsoft is making great strides toward product security, and I’m proud to be part of the movement. But now it is time to fully commit to security by stopping support for products that can’t be secured. If clients are still using Windows 9x along with the associated legacy support [...]

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working around [slow] adservers, updated

Saturday, December 20, 2003

In an earlier entry, I mentioned some simple steps to prevent slow loading ads from blocking page loads. I neglected the one step that makes the others effective. You need to make sure you look up any hosts in the local file you just updated. So to finish this task, vi /etc/lookupd/hosts and make the [...]

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