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I’m going to move this blog. The content is now at http://dump.coker.com.au/ .
The aim is to fix the problems documented here (among other things) by moving to a site that I control.
Related posts:
source dump blog Inspired by Julien Goodwin‘s post I created a new blog… lemonup and blog license I have just updated my previous post about licenses and…
what’s a good blog server for serious blogging? I’m getting sick of blogger. The main thing is that…
reviewing blog comments and links It seems that the swik.net site is mirroring all my…
Currently there is a problem with the MySQL default install in Debian/Etch (and probably other distributions too). It sets up “root” with dba access with no password by default, the following mysql command will give a list of all MySQL accounts with Grant_priv access (one of the capabilities that gives great access to the database […]
Sune Vuorela asks about how to secure important data such as GPG keys on laptops.
I believe that the ideal solution involves booting from a USB device with an encrypted root filesystem to make subversion of the machine more difficult (note that physically subverting the machine is still possible – EG through monitoring the keyboard […]
Jesus Climent writes about donating laptops.
Free Thinkpad
I have a Thinkpad 385xd laptop to give away for free. It has a PentiumMMX-233 CPU, 96M of RAM, a 3.2G IDE disk, and a 800×600 display. As of my last tests it works well and is currently running an old version of Debian.
The power connector […]
I have just installed a machine running CentOS 5 as a Xen server. I installed a full GUI environment on the dom0 so that GUI tools can be used for managing the virtual servers.
The first problem I had was selecting the “Installation source”, it’s described in the error message as an “Invalid PV media […]
I have just updated my previous post about licenses and also explicitely licensed my blog. Previously I had used a Creative-Commons share-alike license for lecture notes to allow commercial use and had not specified what the license is for my blog apart from it being free for feeds (you may add it to a planet […]
Leon Brooks blogged about the Right to Fork (an essential right for free software development) but notes that governments of countries don’t permit such a right.
One of the criteria for the existence of a state is the ability to control it’s own territory. Lose control of the territory and you lose the state, lose […]
Paul Dwerryhouse posted a comment about the Prime Minister asking people to pray for rain. I don’t think that Johnny is suggesting this because he’s overly religious (compare his actions with the New Testament of the Bible). The fact is that the Australian government has no plans to deal with global warming, the inefficient distribution […]
Alan Robertson (a major contributor to the Heartbeat project) commented on my post failure probability and clusters. His comment deserves wider readership than a comment generally gets so I’m making a post out of it. Here it is:
One of my favorite phrases is “complexity is the enemy of reliability” . This is absolutely true, […]
A comment on my post about the failure probability of clusters suggested that a six node cluster that has one node fail should become a five node cluster.
The problem with this is what to do when nodes recover from a failure. For example if a six node cluster had a node fail and became […]
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