Future Posts
This page describes my future plans for posting. If you have any suggestions for topics that you wish me to write about then please leave comments here.
- SE Linux
- General security issues
- More Heartbeat posts, including an overview
- More Xen posts, including an overview
- A post summarising MySQL DBA tasks for a sys-admin who is not a database expert
- A design for the servers for an ISP that has more than 1M customers (will submit it to Linux Journal as an article and just blog it if I can’t find a magazine to pay for it)
- Collect some of my writing that has been published elsewhere and either copy it here or provide links to it
- A post with general information on SCSI for a sys-admin who doesn’t want to learn all the details
- More career advice
- Car technology
- Some simple financial advice based on maths. I often have to advise friends on issues related to calculating when the best time might be to try and buy a house or how long they can live off savings. I can’t give complete answers to such things in blog posts but I can write cgi-bin scripts that do the calculations which will then make decisions easier and more accurate (I hope).
- SETUID/SETGID, how it works and how programs such as BASH deal with it
- Fuel Cell and electrolysis efficiency for H2 power
- Document my implementation of SRS as requested by http://peter.makholm.net/2007/08/29/srs/
- SecureID tokens and other hardware based authentication methods
- Analysis of the load average algorithm in Linux - does it really correspond to 1, 5, and 15 minutes?
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August 9th, 2007 at 7:00 amMy suggestion is:
The quality of free software and how to improve it.
That’s been on my mind for a while but I haven’t got around to writing a decent blog/essay about it.
August 9th, 2007 at 2:46 pmWell
All of them are interesting topics but …
I see General security is more about Se Linux,
So my topics are
- Se Linux
- Heartbeat and Clusters
- A post summarising MySQL DBA tasks for a sys-admin who is not a database expert
- Collect some of your writing that has been published elsewhere
- and the career advice
PD What about Xen
Unfortunately I see that there were an agreement between Xen and M$.
Dont know how it could affect Xen in the future …
Regards
Well
August 9th, 2007 at 3:13 pmTed: Interesting idea. I’ll start with a lazyweb post and write an essay with inspiration from the results.
August 9th, 2007 at 9:36 pmVictor: I don’t think that the relationship between Xen and MS is a problem. In any case I’ll be blogging about the technical and practical issues related to it so any potential legal issues won’t be a topic for me.
Do you think I should start a page with requests for other people to write essays?
August 9th, 2007 at 9:37 pmJust wanted to know your thoughts about it
August 10th, 2007 at 7:45 ambut know it is ok for me.
Thanks
You rumoured GPG passphrase brute forcer script :)
August 16th, 2007 at 10:32 pmA comparison of SELinux style security with something like Plash (http://plash.beasts.org/) or Polaris (http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1151033).
August 21st, 2007 at 6:16 pm