Posts by DavidAtkinson

Early 1990's on a green screen terminal

Using net news, archie and gopher. I was a university undergraduate, and at the time everyone who wanted access had to make their case - in writing - to their head of department, to explain how it would benefit their education.

A couple of years later the university opened up access and installed a web browser (Mosaic, I think) on a room full of X-terms. I remember the first URL I typed in - someone had written on the whiteboard at the front of the room:

'Start Here - http://www.stanford.edu/~jwang/yahoo'

Sensor Size

6.17 x 4.55 mm, according to http://www.dpreview.com/products/nikon/compacts/nikon_cpp510

Not what you'd expect for £400.

Buffer overflow

I had a hardware skype phone. A few months ago I started getting instant messages that made it crash. Could that be the vector?

I also wonder how the sender got my skype username - it was a random string of characters, not listed in the directory, and only ever used for SkypeOut.

I switched to SipGate through the built in VOIP client on my mobile.