Exit Strategies for IraqExit Strategies for Iraq
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[...]
Author: etbe
Modules and NFS for XenModules and NFS for Xen
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[...]
Troll ZappingTroll Zapping
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[...]
Column Width in BlogsColumn Width in Blogs
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[...]
Ron PaulRon Paul
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[...]
unaligned access on IA64unaligned access on IA64
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[...]
HP Sponsors Computer RecyclingHP Sponsors Computer Recycling
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[...]
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Bizarre “No space left on device” error from XenBizarre “No space left on device” error from Xen
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[...]
The ABC and the Supposed Liberal BiasThe ABC and the Supposed Liberal Bias
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[...]
Religion and CarsReligion and Cars
The Catholic Church has recently issued a set of 10 road commandments. Number 9 is “On the road, protect the more vulnerable party” which ties in with an article by[...]