Dutch police arrested 12 people for acting suspiciously on a flight to India. A passenger said “They were not paying attention to what the flight attendents were saying”, I don’t pay attention to the flight attendents either. When you fly more than 10 times a year you learn how to do up your seat-belt and […]
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Today (well yesterday as of 30 minutes ago) I spoke at the Open Source Symposium in Melbourne. This is an event sponsored by Red Hat. The first day was the business day and the second day was the Red Hat developers day. I attended both days and spoke on the second day (today). My talk […] I have recently purchased a large quantity of fair trade chocolate. Fair trade means that the people who produce the products will be paid a fair price for their products which will enable them to send their children to school, pay for adequate health-care, etc. Paying a small price premium on products such as coffee […] There is ongoing discussion about whether outsourcing is good or bad. The general assumptions seem to be that it is bad for people who work in the computer industry (more competition for jobs and thus lower pay) and good for employers (more work done for less money). I am not convinced that employers can get […] In the game show The Weakest Link competitors get voted off, usually not on whether they are weak but on whether the other contestents consider them to be a threat. It’s mildly amusing as a TV game show but not funny at all when carried out on an airline. Recently a flight from Malaga to […] I am constantly amazed at the apparent lack of interest in car-pooling when travelling between LUV meetings and the restaurant where we have dinner. After the last meeting I was one of the first five people to arrive at the restaurant and we had arrived in three separate cars. For the most luxurious travel you […] After a recent mailing list discussion about computer security I’m going to be quoted in someone’s .sig so I think that I need to write a blog entry. Here is an article about a 2001 case of a man who was arrested for pedophilia and spent 9 days in prison: http://www.xatrix.org/article.php?s=3549 . This article on […] There has been a lot of discussion recently about how to take laptops on planes following the supposed terror threat in the UK which has been debunked by The Register and other organizations. There is an interesting eWeek article about this that contains the interesting quote “The built-in locks don’t yet meet TSA specifications because […] In response to my last entry about anti-spam measures and the difficulty of blocking SPAM at the SMTP protocol level I received a few responses. Brian May pointed out that the exiscan-acl feature of Exim allows such blocking, and Johannes Berg referred me to his web site http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/Projects for information on how he implemented Exim […] There are two critical things that any anti-spam system must do, it must not lose email and it must not cause damage to the rest of the net. To avoid losing email every message must be either accepted for delivery or the sender must be notified. To avoid causing damage to the rest of the […] |
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