Free K-12 Text BooksFree K-12 Text Books
The CK12 project is developing free (CC by SA) textbooks for the K-12 market (with a current focus on the early years of high school) [1]. Their primary aim seems[...]
Month: August 2009
Increasing Productivity through Clean AirIncreasing Productivity through Clean Air
Kamal Meattle gave an interesting TED talk about using plants to produce enough oxygen to support people in sealed buildings [1]. The combination he advocates is Areca Palm for the[...]
NBD and PXE Booting on DebianNBD and PXE Booting on Debian
I have a Xen server that I use for testing which is fairly lightly loaded. I considered making it diskless to save some electricity use (which also means heat dissipation[...]
Mail Server SecurityMail Server Security
I predict that over the course of the next 10 years there will be more security problems discovered in Sendmail than in Postfix and Qmail combined. I predict that the[...]
ReWineReWine
I have just discovered an innovative Melbourne company that has apparently been running for five years. ReWine is a wine seller that sells bottles of wine and then refills the[...]
CEO PayCEO Pay
The latest news is that the CEO of the new NBN (National Broadband Network) will receive a $2 million salary [1]. This has been defended as “the price required to[...]
The Lack of Browser SecurityThe Lack of Browser Security
For a long time the use of HTTP cookies [1] for tracking the web browsing habits of users has been well known. But I am not aware of any good[...]
School ReunionsSchool Reunions
I’ve never understood the point of school reunions. The past students association of a secondary school can potentially be of some use when you are looking for your first job,[...]
Why you should maintain old URLsWhy you should maintain old URLs
Below is a message from the thanks file on my SE Linux play machine [1]: Hello from San Juan, Puerto Rico! I just found out about this server by reading[...]
Child Abuse and CensorshipChild Abuse and Censorship
In Australia we are currently in the middle of a long drawn out saga about Internet censorship [1]. In summary we have fundamentalist Christians wanting to prevent anyone from accessing[...]