For a long time I’ve enjoyed reading books by David Brin. Not only does he have some good sci-fi ideas and a good writing style, but he’s also a cool guy when you meet him at a signing. One of the core concepts in a number of his books is the idea of uplift, whereby […]
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On a closed mailing list someone wrote: 2 X 120gb ide drives installed as slaves on each ide channels. … Presto. A 230’ish GB storage NAS for all my junk. I’m not going to write a long technical response on a closed list so I’ll blog about it instead. Firstly I wonder whether by “junk” […] Yesterday Erich Schubert blogged about reducing Debian SE Linux work due to lack of hardware. To solve such problems I’ve put a Debian/unstable machine on the net and given Erich the root password. Also now I am starting work on Debian SE Linux again too. There should be some significant developments in Debian SE Linux […] In regard to my post yesterday about Planet Debian I received the following response: James Purser said I’m betting that your feed is an atom feed. We had the same problem on PLOA with Jeff and Pias feeds when they switched to atom. Planet needs to be upgraded. Well I am using an atom feed, […] I am aware of the problems in displaying my blog in Planet Debian. I have filed a bug report with blogger and informed mako. There’s nothing else I can do at the moment, if you use Planet Linux Australia then things work OK. I’m not sure whether Planet Debian or Blogger is at fault. Sorry […] This story on 365tomorrows.com on the topic of rootkits is interesting (note the OSs involved). Also it made me wonder about the other possibilities for a root-kitted robot, the mind boggles at how it might determine whether you need an enlargement to some body part… 365tomorrows is a good site, they post a short sci-fi […] There are many people claiming that nuclear power will solve all the ills of the world. However this does not seem to be possible. Firstly you have to consider the hidden costs of nuclear power such as deaths from the mining industry (ingesting uranium ore is a really bad thing) and the difficulty in disposing […] One advantage of not being a permanent employee is that I am free to do paid work for other people. This not only gives a greater income but also a wider scope of work. I’ve just completed my first significant project since leaving Red Hat. The Inumbers project provides an email address for every mobile […] I’ve been working on a mail forwarding system which required me to implement SRS to allow people who use SPF to be customers of the service (as I use SPF on my domain it’s fairly important to me). Reading the web pages before actually trying to implement it things seemed quite easy. All over the […] I’m currently working for a company that in the past has not embraced new technology. One of my colleagues recently installed a wiki which did a lot of good in terms of organizing the internal documentation. The next step is to install some blogging software. What I want is to have every sys-admin run a […] |
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