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Good Things about LinkWithin

For the last 10 weeks I’ve been using the LinkWithin.com service to show links to other blog posts at the end of each post (the links are only shown to visitors of my blog not in the RSS feed, so people who read my posts through RSS syndication will miss this). [...]

April 30th, 2010 | Category: Blogging | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

CPL Still Sucks

I previously described my experience with Computers and Parts Land (CPL) [1] who gave me a product that didn’t do what I wanted (because they thought that they knew better than me) and then gave me attitude when I returned it.

As it’s almost a year since that incident I had to buy something else [...]

April 30th, 2010 | Category: Review | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)

Links April 2010

Sam Harris gave an interesting TED talk about whether there are scientific answers to moral questions [1]. One of his insightful points was that when dealing with facts certain opinions should be excluded – it would be good if journalists who report on issues of science could understand this. Another insight was that religious people [...]

April 25th, 2010 | Category: Links | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Is the NBN a Good Idea

Since writing my post about whether the National Broadband Network can ever break even [1] I’ve had a number of people try to convince me of it’s merit. He is my summary and rebuttal of some of the arguments for the NBN:

The FUD

Claims are made that Australia may fall behind the rest of [...]

April 24th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Politics | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)

Upgrading a SE Linux system to Debian/Testing (Squeeze)

Upgrade Requirements

Debian/Squeeze (the next release of Debian) will be released some time later this year. Many people are already upgrading test servers, and development systems and workstations that are used to develop code that will be deployed next year. Also there are some significant new features in Squeeze that compel some people to upgrade [...]

April 21st, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Security | Comments are closed

Creating a Micro Conference

The TEDxVolcano

The TED conference franchise has been extended to TEDxVolcano [1], this is a small conference that features people who are stranded by the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland. As usual TED is an inspiration to us all, so there is obvious potential for other conferences to be organised in similar situations – there’s no [...]

April 19th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Speech | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

ATI ES1000 Video on Debian/Squeeze

The Problem

I’ve just upgraded my Dell PowerEdge T105 [1] from Debian/Lenny to Debian/Squeeze. Unfortunately the result of the upgrade was that everything in an X display looked very green while the console display looked the way it usually did.

I asked for advice on the LUV mailing list [2] and got a lot of [...]

April 18th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Misc Computer | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)

Debian/Testing and KDE4

I’ve just upgraded my Thinkpad (which I use for most of my work) to Debian/testing with KDE4.

Improvements

Kde 3.5 (from Debian/Lenny) didn’t properly display the applets in a vertical task bar. I want a vertical task bar because my screen resolution is 1680*1050 and I find that a less rectangular screen workspace is best [...]

April 11th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Review | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)

Web Server Performance

We Have to Make Our Servers Faster

Google have just announced that they have made site speed part of their ranking criteria for search results [1]. This means that we now need to put a lot of effort into making our servers run faster.

I’ve just been using the Page Speed Firefox Plugin [2] (which [...]

April 10th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Blogging | 10 comments - (Comments are closed)

Health and Status Monitoring via Smart Phone

Health Monitoring

Eric Topol gave an interesting TED talk about wireless medical monitoring devices [1]. The potential for helping diabetics and other people who need ongoing treatment is obvious as is the potential for helping pregnant women and other people who might suddenly need medical treatment at short notice.

One significant positive potential for this [...]

April 5th, 2010 | Tags: | Category: Health | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
 
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