There is a lot of interest in making organisations “green” nowadays. One issue is how to make the IT industry green. People are talking about buying “offsets” for CO2 production, but the concern is that some of the offset schemes are fraudulent. Of course the best thing to do is to minimise the use of [...]
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I just read an interesting post about proposed new laws in the US prohibiting exposing underpants [1]. This is not a new thing and is part of a debate that has been taking place in many countries since the trend of “hip hop” saggy pants. The first thing that occurs to me is to wonder [...] I have just uploaded new SE Linux policy packages for Debian/Unstable which will go into Lenny (provided that the FTP masters approve the new packages in time). The big change is that there are no longer separate packages for strict and targeted policies. There is now a package named selinux-policy-default which has the features of [...] Does a GPG pass-phrase provide a real benefit to the majority of users? It seems that there will be the following categories of attack which result in stealing the secret-key data: User-space compromise of account (EG exploiting a bug in a web browser or IRC client). System compromise (EG compromising a local account and exploiting [...] I have just been running some ZCAV tests on some new supposedly 1TB disks (10^40 bytes is about 931*2^30 so is about 931G according to almost everyone in the computer industry who doesn’t work for a hard disk vendor). I’ve added a new graph to my ZCAV results page [1] with the results. One interesting [...] Below is a strange Google advert that appeared on my blog. It appeared when I did a search on my blog, it also appears on my post about perpetual motion. It seems quite strange that they are advertising their product as a scam. It’s accurate, but I can’t imagine it helping sales. [...] |
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