Links August 2010Links August 2010
Urban Honking has an insightful article about the Arduino and suggests that it is one of the most important factors for the development of the computer industry in the near[...]
Year: 2010
A Netbook for Aircraft NavigationA Netbook for Aircraft Navigation
There is apparently some MS-Windows software for navigating light aircraft in Australia. It takes input from a GPS device and knows the rules for certain types of common tasks (such[...]
Telling People How to VoteTelling People How to Vote
Yesterday I handed out how to vote (HTV) cards for the Australian Greens. The experience was very different to the one I had when I handed out cards for the[...]
It’s Election Time AgainIt’s Election Time Again
Linux People and Voting Chris Samuel (a member of LUV who’s known for his work on high performance computers and the “vacation” program) has described why he’s voting for the[...]
The Gift of FearThe Gift of Fear
I have just read The Gift of Fear and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us From Violence by Gavin de Becker. Like many self-help books it has a concept that[...]
Ethernet Interface NamingEthernet Interface Naming
As far as I recall the standard for naming Linux Ethernet devices has always been ethX where X is a number starting at 0. Until fairly recently the interface names[...]
Cyborgs solving Protein Folding problemsCyborgs solving Protein Folding problems
Arstechnica has an interesting article about protein folding problems being solved by a combination of brute-force software and human pattern recognition in the form of a computer game [1]. Here[...]
The Lord of the FriesThe Lord of the Fries
Today I bought a box of fries from The Lord of the Fries [1]. I bought it from their new stand at Flinders St station because I was going past[...]
Why Clusters Usually Don’t WorkWhy Clusters Usually Don’t Work
It’s widely regarded that to solve reliability problems you can just install a cluster. It’s quite obvious that if instead of having one system of a particular type you have[...]
WordPress MaintainabilityWordPress Maintainability
For a while I’ve been maintaining my own WordPress packages. I use quite a few plugins that weren’t included in Debian, some of them have unclear licenses so they can’t[...]