Planet feed polling frequencyPlanet feed polling frequency
From reading my web stats yesterday it seems that one Planet has polled by blog feed 1693 times over the first 14.25 days of this month. This is about 5[...]
Author: etbe
priorities for heartbeat servicespriorities for heartbeat services
Currently I am considering the priority scheme to use for some highly available services running on Linux with Heartbeat. The Heartbeat system has a number of factors that can be[...]
mobile phone etiquettemobile phone etiquette
Paul Dwerryhouse blogs about mobile phone etiquette. Taking excessive calls at a restaurant is annoying, but keep them short and it’s no big deal. Strange ring tones are OK as[...]
Tom’s Hardware falls victim to a trojanTom’s Hardware falls victim to a trojan
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[...]
career riskscareer risks
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[...]
terrorist actions I want bannedterrorist actions I want banned
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[...]
Five ways SE Linux may surprise youFive ways SE Linux may surprise you
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[...]
permalinks in wordpress, Apache redirection, and other blog stuffpermalinks in wordpress, Apache redirection, and other blog stuff
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[...]
lemonup.com – pirateslemonup.com – pirates
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[...]
school ratingschool rating
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[...]