More About Living in HotelsMore About Living in Hotels
In the past I have spent about 18 months living in hotels with a couple of months of breaks in between. I have previously written about it in terms of[...]
Month: November 2007
Restorecon Equivalent for Unix PermissionsRestorecon Equivalent for Unix Permissions
SE Linux has a utility named restorecon to set (or reset) the security context. This is useful for many reasons, corrupted filesystems, users removing files or changing the context in[...]
SecureCon LectureSecureCon Lecture
On Thursday at Secure Con [1] I gave a lecture about SE Linux that went according to plan, and they gave me a nice bottle of Penfolds Shiraz afterwards (thanks[...]
SecureCon TutorialSecureCon Tutorial
My SecureCon tutorial went quite badly today. After having network problems and having both the Xen servers crash for no apparent reason I had to give up and give an[...]
Xen for TrainingXen for Training
I’m setting up a training environment based on Xen. The configuration will probably be of use to some people so I’m including it below the fold. Please let me know[...]
Squid and SE LinuxSquid and SE Linux
Is Squid not returning some data you need on a SE Linux system? The default configuration of the SE Linux policy for Squid only allows it to connect to a[...]
Increasing Efficiency through Less WorkIncreasing Efficiency through Less Work
I have just read an interesting article titled Why Crunch Mode Doesn’t Work [1] which documents the research on efficiency vs amount of time spent working (and by inference amount[...]
Load AverageLoad Average
Other Unix systems apparently calculate the load average differently to Linux. According to the Wikipedia page about Load(computing) [1] most Unix systems calculate it based on the average number of[...]