Play Machine Offline for 2 WeeksPlay Machine Offline for 2 Weeks
I’m about to leave for San Francisco, so my SE Linux Play Machine is turned off and will remain off until after I return. Related posts: Lenny Play Machine Online[...]
Month: November 2009
New RFID PassportNew RFID Passport
Above is the picture of the RFID device in my new UK passport. The outer wire loop is 72mm * 42mm which is by far the largest RFID device I’ve[...]
Who Should Edit Wikipedia and Where Should they Do It?Who Should Edit Wikipedia and Where Should they Do It?
Cory Doctorow wrote an interesting little column for Make magazine about Wikipedia and the way that it “contains facts about facts” [1]. One of the issues with this is that[...]
Killing BankersKilling Bankers
John Robb wrote an interesting post about running web sites to target corporations such as Goldman Sachs [1] (such as tracking where it’s employees live). Naked Capitalism has an interesting[...]
Seatbelts and Transporting ComputersSeatbelts and Transporting Computers
I’ve just read an interesting post at Making Light about seat-belts [1]. In Australia seat-belt use is mandatory, you can be fined for failing to wear one – and the[...]
Computer Security and Political CensorshipComputer Security and Political Censorship
I’ve just been disappointed to read about the DNI (Defence in the National Interest) web site closing down [1]. The final blog post says “In the meantime, I’ll leave everything[...]
SCO Unix and ProftpdSCO Unix and Proftpd
I recently had the misfortune to be compelled to install Proftpd on SCO Unix. There’s nothing wrong with Proftpd of course, but everything is wrong with SCO. LDFLAGS=-L/usr/ucblib ./configure –libdir=/usr/ucblib[...]
Car Drivers vs Mechanics and Free SoftwareCar Drivers vs Mechanics and Free Software
In a comment on my post about Designing Unsafe Cars [1] Noel said “If you don’t know how to make a surgery, you don’t do it. If you don’t know[...]
Designing Unsafe CarsDesigning Unsafe Cars
The LA Times has an interesting article about problems with Toyota and Lexus cars [1]. Basically there are problems where the cars have uncontrolled acceleration (there seems to be some[...]
Laptop ReliabilityLaptop Reliability
Update: TumbleDry has a good analysis of the Square Trade report [0]. It seems that there are significant statistical problems in Square Trade’s analysis and a possible conflict of interest.[...]