E-Week has an article about the popular computer hardware review site Tom’s Hardware (tomshardware.com) being hit by a trojan in a banner advert. From the article it’s not clear whether[...]
Paul Graham makes some interesting observations about taking risks to achieve career benefits. One thing he doesn’t mention is that the risks have to match your life situation. If you[...]
The current trend in government seems to be to do whatever they want because to do otherwise invites (or fails to prevent) terrorism. Here are some things that might be[...]
Frank Mayer of Tresys has written a great article on the techtarget.com site about SE Linux. It seems mostly aimed at managers and novice users and explains how SE Linux[...]
When I first put my new blog online I didn’t think to set the custom permalinks option to avoid having /index.php in all URLs (which wastes a few bytes and[...]
The URL http://linuxresource.lemonup.com/ currently has a mirror of my blog. Disregarding the DMCA take-down notice I sent them a week ago (which is also mirrored on their own site) they[...]
The web site <A HREF="http://au.ratemyteachers.com/">http://au.ratemyteachers.com/</A> allows Australian students to rate their teachers. Ratings are anonymous and give teachers a score out of 5 as well as allowing students to[...]
A few days ago I wrote my first DMCA take-down notice, I followed the instructions on the Wikipedia page. The reason for this was that someone was mirroring my blog[...]
Today I gave three talks at my local LUG. The first was my latest SE Linux talk (I’ll put the notes online soon). The second was a talk about voting.[...]
In a comment on my blog post “a Heartbeat developer comments on my blog post” Alan Robertson writes: I got in a hurry on my math because of the emergency.[...]