Shanley wrote an insightful article about microagressions and management [1]. It’s interesting to read that and think of past work experiences, even the best managers do it.
Paul Wayper wrote an interesting article about reforming the patent system [4]. He also notes that the patent system is claimed to be protecting the mythical home inventor when it’s really about patent trolls (and ex-inventors who work for them). This is similar to the way that ex-musicians work for organisations that promote extreme copyright legislation.
Amanda Palmer gave an interesting TED talk about asking for donations/assistance, and the interactions between musicians and the audience [5]. Some part of this are NSFW.
Hans Rakers wrote a useful post about how to solve a Dovecot problem with too many files open [6]. His solution was for a Red Hat based system, for Debian you can do the same but by editing /etc/init.d/dovecot. The use of the /proc/N/limits file was interesting, I’ve never had a cause to deliberately use that file before.
Krebs on Security has an interesting article about Android malware being used to defeat SMS systems to prevent bank fraud [7]. Apparently an infected PC will instruct the user to install an Android app to complete the process.
Matthew Garrett wrote an interesting post about the way that Ubuntu gets a better result than Debian and Fedora because it has clear fixed goals [9]. He states that many people regard Fedora as a “playground to produce a range of niche derivatives”, probably a large portion of the Fedora and Debian developers consider this a feature not a bug.
Ming Thein wrote an interesting article about the demise of the DSLR [10].
Bruce Schneier wrote an interesting post on the detention of David Miranda by the British authorities [11]. It’s mostly speculation as to why they would do such a thing (which seems to go against their own best interests) and whether the NSA even knows which documents Edward Snowden copied.
Rodney S. Tucker wrote an insightful article for the IEEE about the NBN [13]. Basically the Liberal party are going to spend most of the tax money needed for a full NBN but get a significantly less than the full benefit.
Lauren Drell wrote an interesting article for Mashable about TellSpec, a portable spectrometer that communicates with an Android phone to analyse food for allergens [14]. I guess this will stop schools from banning phones.
Katie McDonough wrote an interesting article for Salon about the Pope’s statements about the problems with unchecked capitalism [15]. His ideas are really nothing new to anyone who has read the Bible and read the news. It seems to me that the most newsworthy part of this is that most Christian leaders don’t make similar statements.
Daniel Leidert wrote an interesting post about power saving when running Debian on a HP Microserver [16]. Most of it is relevant to other AMD64 hardware too, I’ll have to investigate the PCIE ASPM and spin down options on some of my systems that are mostly idle.
- [1] https://medium.com/about-work/65d4740f7a2f
- [2] http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_stone_explores_the_earth_and_space.html
- [3] http://tinyurl.com/6zgcb3f
- [4] http://mabula.net/tbfw/2013/08/01
- [5] http://www.ted.com/talks/amanda_palmer_the_art_of_asking.html
- [6] http://tinyurl.com/k3xz9a8
- [7] http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/08/a-closer-look-perkele-android-malware-kit/
- [8] http://tinyurl.com/orf9gds
- [9] http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/27517.html
- [10] http://blog.mingthein.com/2013/08/24/the-demise-of-the-dslr/
- [11] https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/08/detaining_david.html
- [12] http://prospect.org/article/good-mens-rights-movement-hard-find
- [13] http://tinyurl.com/q49b9fa
- [14] http://mashable.com/2013/11/26/tellspec/
- [15] http://tinyurl.com/nosxkj2
- [16] http://www.wgdd.de/2013/08/hp-n54l-microserver-energy-efficiency.html