The Cost of Car CrashesThe Cost of Car Crashes
An article from 1999 suggested that car crashes caused a financial loss in OECD countries equivalent of 2% of their entire economies [1]. An article from the Sydney Morning Herald[...]
Author: etbe
Hyperthermia and Children in CarsHyperthermia and Children in Cars
Bruce Schneier writes about the risks involving children abandoned in cars and cites an article about the tragic deaths of children in hot cars [1]. One unfortunate error that he[...]
Lobbying for Free SoftwareLobbying for Free Software
I am not aware of any Linux Users Group (LUG) being active in informing it’s members of how the policies of the various political parties compare with regard to free[...]
Question about a “Secure Filesystem”Question about a “Secure Filesystem”
I have just been asked for advice about “secure filesystem” and decided to blog my answers. The first issue is what is meant by “secure filesystem, that could either mean[...]
Why Cyrus SucksWhy Cyrus Sucks
I’m in the middle of migrating a mail server away from the Cyrus mail store [1]. Cyrus provides a POP and IMAP server, a local delivery agent (accepting mail via[...]
Maildrop, IMAP, and PostfixadminMaildrop, IMAP, and Postfixadmin
I have recently configured my mail server to use IMAP. I started doing this when I was attending Linux.conf.au so that I could read urgent mail using my EeePC while[...]
I need an LMTP serverI need an LMTP server
I am working on a system where a front-end mail server sends mail to what it considers to be a LDA (Local Delivery Agent) which actually sends mail to a[...]
The FAIL MemeThe FAIL Meme
One of the recent poor trends in mailing list discussions is to reply to a message with a comment such as “FAIL” or “EPIC FAIL“. The FAIL meme has been[...]
Case Sensitivity and Published PasswordsCase Sensitivity and Published Passwords
When I first started running a SE Linux Play Machine [1] I used passwords such as “123456“. Then for a while I had “selinux” but when I created a T-shirt[...]
SE Linux Lenny Status UpdateSE Linux Lenny Status Update
I previously described four levels of SE Linux support on the desktop [1]. Last night I updated my APT repository of SE Linux packages for Lenny (as described on my[...]