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Here’s an amusing video about how not to do presentations. Related posts: common mistakes in presentations I attend many presentations and have seen many that had… presentations and background color In response to my last post about using laptops for… presentations about SE Linux I have just read the Presentation Zen blog post about… This paper by Rodney Van Meter about ZCAV (Zoned Constant Angular Velocity) in hard drives is very interesting. It predates my work by about four years and includes some interesting methods of collecting data that I never considered. One interesting thing is that apparently on some SCSI drives you can get the drive to tell […] I’m going to move this blog. The content is now at http://dump.coker.com.au/ . The aim is to fix the problems documented here (among other things) by moving to a site that I control. Related posts: source dump blog Inspired by Julien Goodwin‘s post I created a new blog… lemonup and blog license I have just updated my previous post about licenses and… Jesus Climent writes about donating laptops. Free Thinkpad I have a Thinkpad 385xd laptop to give away for free. It has a PentiumMMX-233 CPU, 96M of RAM, a 3.2G IDE disk, and a 800×600 display. As of my last tests it works well and is currently running an old version of Debian. The power connector […] Leon Brooks blogged about the Right to Fork (an essential right for free software development) but notes that governments of countries don’t permit such a right. One of the criteria for the existence of a state is the ability to control it’s own territory. Lose control of the territory and you lose the state, lose […] We are having a release party on Saturday the 14th of April. We meet at mid-day under the clocks at Flinders Street Station and then go somewhere convenient and not too expensive for lunch. All welcome. Update: The event was moderately successful. There were only six people including me – that was quite a bit […] James Dumay writes about Theo’s latest flame-war. One interesting part of the debate was Theo’s response to this comment: > We can dual license our code though and that is an > acceptable license for Linux, the kernel. Theo: We? Sure, you can. But Reyk will not dual license his code, and most of the […] This morning after having had my car parked in the sun for a couple of hours I poured water on the rear window to cool it (as described in this post). When I did so the mist that rose up from the window spiraled up in a way that was similar to a cyclone (but […] http://wikisky.org/ is like google maps but looking up! It’s cool, check it out! No related posts. For a few months I have been spending a lot of time using a Mac running OS/X for 40 hours a week. Recently a discussion started at a client site as to whether Macs or PCs should be used for future desktop machines. The Apple hardware is very slick, everything fits together nicely and works […] |
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