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Author: breadcat <breadcat@users.noreply.github.com>
Date:   Fri,  8 Mar 2024 17:34:06 +0000

Couple memoirs

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diff --git a/content/memoirs/double-bus-lane.md b/content/memoirs/double-bus-lane.md @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +--- +title: Double bus lane +memoir: working +--- + +I was working in Leeds programming and replacing a router for a new Internet connection, on my drive back I needed to turn left however the left lane was a bus lane. I drove a certain way down until I was fairly confident the bus lane had ended and turned left. No harm, no foul. + +I ended up returning to the office, then needed to go back out as the replacement router didn't support as many VPN clients as the old router did. As I drove away on the same route, I followed my original route away and ended up being caught twice in one day, a couple hours apart and had to pay 2x &pound;60 fines. +\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/content/memoirs/longhorn-patching.md b/content/memoirs/longhorn-patching.md @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +--- +title: Longhorn patching +memoir: college +--- + +During and around college I closely followed the development of what [would eventually become Windows Vista](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Windows_Vista), codenamed Longhorn. In a suspiciously similar vein to my earlier [WPA Patching](/memoirs/wpa-patching/) exploits I also created patches for every single publicly (available at the time I was active in the community) released build of Longhorn from the early 3000 series, through 4000 and eventually culminating in 5048. +\ No newline at end of file