Dell just sent me a letter advertising their new Vostro line “especially for small business“. They say “we listened, then we listened some more” and explain that it’s based on[...]
A frequent criticism of solar power is that the sun only shines brightly for part of the day, and that many of the times when there is significant electrical load[...]
Due to climate change and population increases we are having increasing problems with the water supply in Australia. Peter Lieverdink suggests that we have more options for water supply including[...]
Here’s an interesting CSPAN interview with Dick Cheney from 1994. It’s amazing how accurate Dick’s analysis of the Iraq situation was in 1994 when justifying the decision to merely destroy[...]
When I was about 11 years old I decided that I wanted a career related to computers. My first computer was the TEC-1 single-board Z80 based kit computer from Talking[...]
It’s interesting to see that Audi is releasing a car with LEDs for all lights including the headlights. This is being promoted as an environmental benefit, however a quick google[...]
A question that is often asked is whether to use SE Linux or a chroot to restrict a program. In Unix chroot is a way of running a program with[...]
I’ve been thinking about music videos recently while compiling a list of my favourite videos of all time. It seems that YouTube has changed things through the re-mixes of videos[...]
Recently someone asked on IRC whether they should use SE Linux on a web server machine (that is being used for no other purpose) and then went on to add[...]
One problem with the blog space is that there is a lot of negativity. Many people seem to think that if they don’t like a blog post then the thing[...]