Links July 2014Links July 2014
Dave Johnson wrote an interesting article for Salon about companies ripping off the tax system by claiming that all their income is produced in low tax countries [1]. Seb Lee-Delisle[...]
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BTRFS Status July 2014BTRFS Status July 2014
My last BTRFS status report was in April [1], it wasn’t the most positive report with data corruption and system hangs. Hacker News has a brief discussion of BTRFS which[...]
Android Screen SavingAndroid Screen Saving
Just over a year ago I bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 [1]. About 3 months ago I noticed that some of the Ingress menus had burned in to the[...]
Happiness and Lecture QuestionsHappiness and Lecture Questions
I just attended a lecture about happiness comparing Australia and India at the Australia India Institute [1]. The lecture was interesting but the “questions” were so bad that it makes[...]
Public Lectures About FOSSPublic Lectures About FOSS
Eventbrite I’ve recently started using the Eventbrite Web site [1] and the associated Eventbrite Android app [2] to discover public events in my area. Both the web site and the[...]
Improving Computer ReliabilityImproving Computer Reliability
In a comment on my post about Taxing Inferior Products [1] Ben pointed out that most crashes are due to software bugs. Both Ben and I work on the Debian[...]
A Linux Conference as a RitualA Linux Conference as a Ritual
Sociological Images has an interesting post by Jay Livingston PhD about a tennis final as a ritual [1]. The main point is that you can get a much better view[...]
Taxing Inferior ProductsTaxing Inferior Products
I recently had a medical appointment cancelled due to a “computer crash”. Apparently the reception computer crashed and lost all bookings for a day and they just made new bookings[...]
Desktop Publishing is WrongDesktop Publishing is Wrong
When I first started using computers a “word processor” was a program that edited text. The most common and affordable printers were dot-matrix and people who wanted good quality printing[...]
Blog CommentsBlog Comments
John Scalzi wrote an insightful post about the utility of blog comments with the way the Internet works nowadays [1]. He starts out focusing on hate comments that could reasonably[...]