An Interesting new “Auction” SiteAn Interesting new “Auction” Site
BidRivals.com is an interesting new auction site, their business model is that you buy “bids” for $0.80 each. If you want to bid on an item it costs you $0.80,[...]
Author: etbe
Ext4 and RHEL5/CentOS5Ext4 and RHEL5/CentOS5
I have just noticed that Red Hat added Ext4 support to RHEL-5 in kernel 2.6.18-110.el5. They also added a new package named e4fsprogs (a break from the e2fsprogs name that[...]
I Bought the Bose QC-15I Bought the Bose QC-15
I bought the Bose QC15 noise canceling headphones for my trip back from the US. See my previous posts about Noise Canceling Headphones [1] and Testing Noise Canceling Headphones [2][...]
Shared Objects and Big ApplicationsShared Objects and Big Applications
Some time ago I wrote a little utility named memlockd [1]. Memlockd will lock files into memory which allows significantly faster access when the system pages heavily, in my simulated[...]
Play Machine Online AgainPlay Machine Online Again
I have returned from the US and my SE Linux Play Machine [1] is online again. It was unfortunate that I forgot to pack one of my Play machine shirts,[...]
Nagios and SSL in DebianNagios and SSL in Debian
I was doing some work on NRPE (the Nagios Remote Plugin Executor) and I noticed bug report #547092 [1] which concerns the fact that the default configuration uses the same[...]
Links December 2009Links December 2009
Dan Gilbert gave an insightful TED talk about our mistaken expectations of happiness [1]. Don Marti has an insightful post about net neutrality and public property [2]. When net access[...]
US Border SecurityUS Border Security
Making Light has a post about the Canadian sci-fi author Peter Watts who was beaten and jailed overnight without access to a lawyer by US border guards because he asked[...]
Testing Noise Canceling HeadphonesTesting Noise Canceling Headphones
This evening I tested some Noise Canceling Headphones (as described in my previous post [1]). I first tried the ones on sale at Brookstone [2], they were the on the[...]
Noise Canceling HeadphonesNoise Canceling Headphones
My patience with the noise of airlines has run out, on my trip from AU to US I didn’t get any sleep due to the cramped seat and the noise[...]