Xen SavesXen Saves
A couple of days ago the hardware that is used to host this blog was upgraded – doubling the amount of RAM in the machine. To do this the machine[...]
Author: etbe
Advogato and Hateful/Divisive PostsAdvogato and Hateful/Divisive Posts
Firstly for the benefit of people who haven’t heard of it, the Advogato FAQ and the Wikipedia Page describe what Advogato does. Pete Zaitcev posted a strange article about me[...]
ECC RAM in a Cheap MachineECC RAM in a Cheap Machine
In a comment on my previous post about ECC RAM someone commented that Dell sells PowerEdge desktop machines with ECC RAM. I visited the Dell web site and found that[...]
Germany Leads the World in Solar PowerGermany Leads the World in Solar Power
boston.com reports that Germany now has 55% of the world’s photo-Voltaic (PV) power generation. The German solar power industry has created tens of thousands of jobs including significant exports –[...]
Praising Children vs Praising ProgrammersPraising Children vs Praising Programmers
In a comment on my blog post titled Childhood, Don Marti refers to an earlier blog post he wrote which refers to a New York Magazine article about the effects[...]
Hot WaterHot Water
A response to a post I wrote about things to do for the environment suggested that there would be a health risk to lowering the temperature of a home hot-water[...]
Porn vs RapePorn vs Rape
Chris Samuel blogs about a plan to censor porn from the Internet in Australia. According to the ZDNet article the Fundamentalist Christian party Family First wants a national porn filter[...]
Blogs and Conversation (or Lack Therof)Blogs and Conversation (or Lack Therof)
I recently received an email from RSA inviting me to read their blog (after having requested an evaluation copy of one of their products). They invited me to “join the[...]
A Worse Visual MigraineA Worse Visual Migraine
Last night I had a Visual Migraine that was significantly worse than the previous ones. It started in the usual manner (flickering lights in my central vision and an inability[...]
Bonnie++ and Postal shirtsBonnie++ and Postal shirts
Dear lazyweb, I want to design T-Shirts for my Bonnie++ and Postal projects. But representing those projects in a picture seems more difficult than SE Linux (see one of my[...]