Free TextbooksFree Textbooks
I am going to make some suggestions to a company that might possibly sponsor development of free electronic text books for schools (suitable for running on an OLPC machine). I[...]
Month: January 2008
Suse and LCASuse and LCA
I previously wrote about how I gave a talk about SE Linux at a conference spot when a talk about AppArmor was scheduled. It turned out that the Suse people[...]
My LCA TalkMy LCA Talk
Last year at LCA Crispin Cowan suggested to me that I make a joint offer of a combined tutorial on SE Linux and AppArmor as a way of publicly comparing[...]
Talking FastTalking Fast
My previous post about my LCA mini-conf talk received an interesting comment from Christopher Neugebauer. He said that he had some trouble understanding me because I speak quickly, he wasn’t[...]
Change of Rules for the Blogging ContestChange of Rules for the Blogging Contest
Due to the lack of entries so far I am amending the rules. It is no longer required that an entry be on the blog of the person who submitted[...]
LCA 2008 Security MiniconfLCA 2008 Security Miniconf
Today I gave a talk about Debian security at the security mini-conf of LCA. Before I started the talk I asked for suggestions as to how to get more entries[...]
Write Intent BitmapsWrite Intent Bitmaps
When previously writing about how I partition disks [1] I mentioned that I use smaller RAID partitions than the maximum size to reduce reconstruction time in the event of a[...]
Other Planet LCA 2008Other Planet LCA 2008
The Planet installation for the Linux.Conf.Au (the main Linux conference in Australia and one of the biggest and best Linux conferences in the world) is designed to only syndicate posts[...]
Organic Food in MelbourneOrganic Food in Melbourne
Yesterday when walking down Flinders St I noticed that a new store has opened up selling organic food. It’s Flinders Organics and the address is 260 Flinders St Melbourne VIC[...]
IDE DMA and FlashIDE DMA and Flash
I’ve just been working with a Flash device used as /dev/hda (the root filesystem) for a router. The aim is much the same as with my idea of using an[...]