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This article in The Age about Mohamed Haneef shows the terrorist threat that we face. The chance that I will be injured by Al Quaeda in any way is quite remote. The chance of being attacked by ASIO is a lot greater. The main benefit of being in a democracy is having a legal system […] Here’s an interesting piece in the Washington Post about what might happen when the US withdraws from Iraq. I regret not blogging before the war started. It would have been good if I could have pointed to a blog post predicting the same thing before the invasion took place. I’ve always thought that the two […] I’m just in the process of converting a multi-user system to a Xen DomU. It was running on a stand-alone Fedora Core 5 i386 system and I want to run it on a Fedora 7 DomU under a CentOS 5 Dom0 on an Opteron system. The first stage of the conversion was to copy an […] Don Marti writes about the idea of setting a Troll-bit on forum posts such that every reply would also be flagged. I’ve been thinking about how to solve such issues for mailing lists. I think that the way to do this is to create a new list for every contentious topic and automatically subscribe everyone […] I have just been reading the LinuxWorld Community blog which seems to be mostly Don Marti’s personal blog (currently there seems to be no-one else blogging on that site). One thing that disappointed me is that the theme designer made it look good at a width of 1000 pixels and no other size. At a […] A politician named Ron Paul is running for the Republican party nomination for president. Tech Crunch has an article about his Web 2.0 based campaign which also includes a link to a google interview with him. Here’s the good things about him: He strongly defends the constitution and the rule of law, so he’s not […] I recently had some problems with unaligned access on IA64, messages about unaligned access were being logged via printk and I couldn’t determine the cause – or even how to track it down. To test what an unaligned access means (which wasn’t documented anywhere that a quick google search could find) I wrote the test […] Hewlet-Packard is sponsoring the recycling of old computers in Victoria, Australia in a program named Byteback – note that they accept all brands of computer and charge nothing to accept the e-waste. This is a really good thing, I’ll start saving up my old computer parts to deliver to them! Is there a directory of […] What should have been a routine “remove DIMMs and run memtest until things work” procedure to solve a memory error became a lot more complex due to poor error handling in Xen. The following error occured because the tdb database /var/lib/xenstored/tdb was corrupt. To fix it you must rm the file and kill the xenstored […] A common meme is that the media is biased towards the political left. This meme was deliberately created to encourage well-meaning journalists to be more generous in their reporting of Neo-Cons in a misguided attempt at being fair and also as a mechanism for refuting criticism of any media reports that criticise Neo-Cons. The ABC […] |
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