EgyptEgypt
Gunnar Wolf has written an interesting post about the current situation in Egypt, which includes references to Israel (where he lived for a few years) and Mexico (where he has[...]
Year: 2011
Autism, Food, etcAutism, Food, etc
James Purser wrote “Stop Using Autism to Push Your Own Brand of Lunacy” about the organisations that use Autism for their own political agenda [1]. He references the ongoing vaccine[...]
Continuously Usable Testing of SE LinuxContinuously Usable Testing of SE Linux
Joey has proposed a new concept of “Continuously Usable Testing” for Debian [1], basically testing should be usable at all times and packages that aren’t usable should be dropped. But[...]
Free Amazon EC2 ServersFree Amazon EC2 Servers
Amazon is providing free EC2 access for new customers (who have never been customers before) for one year [1]. It is 750 hours per month (enough to run non-stop for[...]
Conferences and People on the Autism SpectrumConferences and People on the Autism Spectrum
There have been some recent discussions about issues related to the treatment of women at Free Software conferences, I’ve written posts about Aspie Social Skills and Free Software [1] and[...]
Links January 2011Links January 2011
Halla Tomasdottir gave an interesting TED talk about her financial services company which uses “feminine values” and thus survived the Icelandic financial crash [1]. She also has a lot of[...]
icmptx – Tunneling IP over ICMP Echoicmptx – Tunneling IP over ICMP Echo
I’ve just been playing with icmptx, a system for tunneling IP over ICMP Echo which could be handy if I ever find myself blocked by firewalls. Unfortunately the documentation is[...]