The Bill – Computers for PoliceThe Bill – Computers for Police
I was watching the British police drama show The Bill [1] and I was impressed by their use of computers. They were analysing the evidence of a homicide and one[...]
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An Obstacle for Women in the IT IndustryAn Obstacle for Women in the IT Industry
It is becoming increasingly apparent that this post is not going to do any good, so I have deleted the content. Sorry to the people who were offended. I won’t[...]
Political Blog PostsPolitical Blog Posts
Currently in the US the main political parties are deciding who will contest the next presidential election. Naturally this gets some commentary from all sides. Planet Debian has syndicated two[...]
Linux Resource ControlsLinux Resource Controls
Using the “ulimit” controls over process resource use it is possible to limit RAM for processes and to limit the number of processes per UID. The problem is that this[...]
The Failure of my Security Blogging ContestThe Failure of my Security Blogging Contest
On the 20th of January (8 days before the start of linux.conf.au) I advertised contest to write blog posts related to computer security for the conference Planet [1]. The aim[...]
Party for U18s at LCA 2009Party for U18s at LCA 2009
This year at Linux.Conf.Au there was a student party sponsored by Google. The party was held in a bar and lots of free drinks were provided. This was fine for[...]
Security Blogging ContestSecurity Blogging Contest
It seems that my blogging contest idea is a failure. Could the interested people please meet me near the LCA registration desk at the start of the lunch breakh today[...]
Free TextbooksFree Textbooks
I am going to make some suggestions to a company that might possibly sponsor development of free electronic text books for schools (suitable for running on an OLPC machine). I[...]
Suse and LCASuse and LCA
I previously wrote about how I gave a talk about SE Linux at a conference spot when a talk about AppArmor was scheduled. It turned out that the Suse people[...]
My LCA TalkMy LCA Talk
Last year at LCA Crispin Cowan suggested to me that I make a joint offer of a combined tutorial on SE Linux and AppArmor as a way of publicly comparing[...]