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Faye and I have created Cafepress stores selling shirts and other things with SE Linux logos, here are the two designs: Play Machine SE Linux MLS There are shirts, coffee mugs, mouse-mats, and other things. The designs feature a graphical representation of MLS security and a variety of text about SE Linux. There […] A few weeks ago Dell advertised new laptops for $849AU, this was a significant development but I didn’t get around to blogging about it. Now I have just discovered that they have a special deal for $799AU for a laptop including delivery! This is an amazing deal and gives you an AMD Sempron 3500 CPU […] I have been “name dropped“. ;) It seems that I even beat Keith Owens (*) who works in the same office, but maybe Dave hasn’t met him yet… (*) I can name drop too! Related posts: phone spam Recently I had someone call my mobile phone asking whether… Apparently they are planning a reality TV show that might be named “Kids Nation” where 40 children are allowed to develop their own society for 40 days. The claims are that there is “no parental supervision”, but of course with many TV cameras watching I’m sure that even the most stupid children can work out […] From reading my web stats yesterday it seems that one Planet has polled by blog feed 1693 times over the first 14.25 days of this month. This is about 5 polls per hour. Another Planet has polled my blog 994 times for an average of about 3 hits per hour. How frequently does it make […] Currently I am considering the priority scheme to use for some highly available services running on Linux with Heartbeat. The Heartbeat system has a number of factors that can be used to determine the weight for running a particular service on a given node. One is the connectivity to other systems determined by ping (every […] Paul Dwerryhouse blogs about mobile phone etiquette. Taking excessive calls at a restaurant is annoying, but keep them short and it’s no big deal. Strange ring tones are OK as long as people answer their phone. It’s when they decide that they don’t want to answer a call that the entire Avril Lavigne song annoys […] E-Week has an article about the popular computer hardware review site Tom’s Hardware (tomshardware.com) being hit by a trojan in a banner advert. From the article it’s not clear whether a criminal paid for a banner advert under a legitimate business name or compromised the advertising server run by an innocent third-party who paid for […] Paul Graham makes some interesting observations about taking risks to achieve career benefits. One thing he doesn’t mention is that the risks have to match your life situation. If you are 21, living with your parents, and single (typical for a CS graduate) then you should take the riskiest options in terms of your career […] |
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