Inspired by Julien Goodwin‘s post I created a new blog for myself named Source Dump. Source is different to other blog content in that updates to fix bugs may be required (generally I believe that ideally blog posts should not be edited once published and in the rare cases of editing being necessary all such […]
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Adam Rosi-Kessel made an interesting post about They Might Be Giants producing children’s music because their original fan base are now old enough to have children. From casual inspection of the crowds at events such as Linux Conf AU it seems to me that many serious Linux people are also at the right age to […] From a suggestion on my previous blog entry I decided to test out google reader. The first problem was that it caused Konqueror to SEGV in etch, I filed a bug report and switched to Firefox. Next to add my feeds I had to either export them in OPML format or add them one at […] I just noticed that /usr/bin/planetplanet is using about 120M of RAM. This isn’t currently a problem as I’m running it on a machine with 256M of RAM, however I would like to run my web server on a 96M Xen instance. 120M for planetplanet is probably going to cause bad performance on a web server […] Chris Samual writes a good summary of Peter Gutmann’s analysis of the cost of Vista (in terms of DRM). The following paragraph in the article however seemed more interesting to me: Once a weakness is found in a particular driver or device, that driver will have its signature revoked by Microsoft, which means that it […] I’ve just been trying to set up a MythTV system, I’ve had the hardware for this for a while but until my TV broke I hadn’t found the time to work on it. My planned hardware was a P3 system for both frontend and backend. However the Debian MythTV packages take over 250M of memory […] A few days ago I installed Debian/Etch on my Thinkpad. One of the reasons for converting from Fedora to Debian is that I need to run Xen and Fedora doesn’t support non-PAE machines with Xen. Ironically it’s hardware supplied to me by Red Hat (Thinkpad T41p) that is lacks PAE support and forces me to […] This morning while travelling to work by tram I had another visual migraine. It was a little worse than last time, not only did everything I focussed on appear to shimmer, but things went a bit grey at my peripheral vision. I had a headache as well although it was very mild (not the typical […] I’m in the process of converting my Fedora/rawhide laptop to Debian. On Fedora the AES encrypted filesystems deliver about 38MB/s read speed according to dd. On Debian the speed is 2.4MB/s when running Xen and 2.7MB/s when not running Xen. The tests were done on the same block device. Debian uses a SMP kernel (there […] The Lexus GS 450 hybrid petrol/electric car has been given the award for Australia’s best luxury car! The judging for this contest rated fuel efficiency as low importance, because luxury car owners traditionally aren’t very concerned about such things. The Lexus won because of it’s quiet engine (can’t beat an electric motor at low speed), […] |
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