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There’s an advertising campaign at the moment opposing cruel treatment of pigs, the web site is at http://www.savebabe.com/ . They have rented advertising space at train stations to publish the URL.
One thing that they don’t mention is the health issues related to factory farming. It makes sense to concentrate on one message at a […]
Currently many people have Google advertising on their web sites, it may even be that a majority of the serious Internet users host Google advertising. Given that Google is already writing a cheque every month to many people, it wouldn’t be difficult for them to change the amount in response to a funds transfer request. […]
When I first started putting pictures on my web site I used to delete the originals (at the time I only had a 3.2G hard drive in my main machine and used CDs for backup so I didn’t feel inclined to waste too much space). The problem is that I optimised the images for viewing […]
Adrian von Bidder made an interesting post in response to my post about Spanish wind power. He correctly points out that power sources that have seasonal variations and which may vary during the course of a day can not be used as the sole power source.
The ideal design would be to have wind power […]
On Tuesday my Thinkpad was taken for service to fix the problem described in this post.
The problems I described were overheating, wear on the keyboard (from a minimum of 8 hours a day 7 days a week use) and a missing rubber foot on the base. The statement of work includes a replaced system-board, […]
The latest news is that Spain has wind power as it’s main source of electricity. The second largest source is nuclear and the third is coal. This is due to some particularly windy weather recently, but Spain is also a world leader in both manufacture and installation of wind power systems.
Other countries should follow […]
Recently I bought a HP DL385 Opteron server at auction. It has an Opteron 265 1.8GHz dual-core CPU and is designed for SFF (Small Form Factor) SAS disks.
A friend told me that S-ATA disks would work in it and so would a faster Opteron CPU. I bought 3 S-ATA disks which work fine in […]
Debian is participating in the Google Summer Of Code (or Winter if you are in the southern hemisphere).
It would be good if we could get a SE Linux related project in. If you are interested in doing some SE Linux work (or other security related work) in this regard then please let me know. […]
This weekend I went to the Ballarat install-fest, mini-conf, and inaugural meeting of the Ballarat Linux Users’ Group (BLUG).
This was the second install-fest, the first one was quite successful so it was decided that there was demand for a second. I suggested that what we should do is get some of the more experience […]
A common criticism of fluorescent lights is the inability to use dimmers, as mentioned in Julien Goodwin’s blog.
However with some thought at the time the lights are installed this problem can be solved. The first thing to keep in mind is that an infinite number of levels of illumination (analogue scale) is not really […]
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