How to Choose a Free Software MissionHow to Choose a Free Software Mission
Jane McGoningal gave an interesting TED talk about how Online Gaming can Make a Better World [1]. One of her points is that there is no unemployment in games such[...]
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Hacker SpacesHacker Spaces
When in California last year I visited the NoiseBridge [1] Hackerspace. I was very impressed with what I saw, good equipment and very friendly people. The general concept of a[...]
Bose vs Bauhn/Aldi Noise Canceling HeadphonesBose vs Bauhn/Aldi Noise Canceling Headphones
Overview The German supermarket chain Aldi has been running in Australia for 8 years now [1]. Their standard practice for a long time has been to offer regular special deals[...]
Links March 2010Links March 2010
Blaise Aguera y Arcas gave an exciting demonstration of new augmented reality mapping software from Microsoft that combines video (including live video) with static mapping data and pictures [1]. This[...]
Citing WikipediaCiting Wikipedia
A meme that has been going around is that you can’t cite Wikipedia. You can’t Cite Wikipedia Academically Now it’s well known and generally agreed that you can’t cite Wikipedia[...]
Xen and Debian/SqueezeXen and Debian/Squeeze
Ben Hutchings announced that the Debian kernel team are now building Xen flavoured kernels for Debian/Unstable [1]. Thanks to Max Attems and the rest of the kernel team for this[...]
Maintaining Screen OutputMaintaining Screen Output
In my post about getting started with KVM I noted the fact that I had problems keeping screen output after the program exits [1]. The following snippet of shell code[...]
Starting with KVMStarting with KVM
I’ve just bought a new Thinkpad that has hardware virtualisation support and I’ve got KVM running. HugePages The Linux-KVM site has some information on using hugetlbfs to allow the use[...]
Thinkpad T61Thinkpad T61
I’ve now had my new Thinkpad T61 [1] for almost a month. The letters on the keyboard are not even starting to wear off which is unusual, either this Thinkpad[...]
The YubikeyThe Yubikey
Some time ago Yubico were kind enough to send me an evaluation copy of their Yubikey device. I’ve finally got around to reviewing it and making deployment plans for buying[...]