LG U990 ViewtyLG U990 Viewty
I have just got a LG U990 “Viewty” mobile phone [1]. It’s a 3G phone and came free on the $29 monthly cap plan from “Three” (minimum monthly spend is[...]
Month: May 2009
Links May 2009Links May 2009
An interesting opinion post in the NY Times describes the research on early education and how it can affect IQ [1]. Among other things children from poor families who are[...]
Appropriate Talks about PornAppropriate Talks about Porn
There is currently some discussion about a talk which used pornographic imagery and jokes to illustrate points about Ruby programming [1]. A similar event happened in 2006 here is the[...]
The Main Security ProblemThe Main Security Problem
All security problems are to some degree people problems. Code may be buggy, but it was written by people who could have been better trained, had more time to spend[...]
Dom0 Memory Allocation and XDom0 Memory Allocation and X
I’ve previously written about memory squeeze problems in a Xen Dom0 when large amounts of memory were assigned to DomUs [1]. In summary the Dom0 would have problems if started[...]
CPLCPL
I’ve just bught an NVidia video card from Computers and Parts Land (CPL) [1]. I asked for a PCIe*8 card but was assured that a PCIe*16 card would work. However[...]
Too Stupid to be a JudgeToo Stupid to be a Judge
Bruce Schneier has written about the foolish actions of Justice Antonin Scalia [1]. Antonin made some comments opposing the need for greater privacy protection, most people could get away with[...]