more on presentationsmore on presentations
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[...]
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paper about ZCAVpaper about ZCAV
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[...]
moving this blogmoving this blog
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[...]
free laptopfree laptop
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[...]
the Right to Forkthe Right to Fork
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[...]
Debian/Etch release party in Melbourne – AustraliaDebian/Etch release party in Melbourne – Australia
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[...]
BSD vs GPL licencesBSD vs GPL licences
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[...]
mini-cyclonemini-cyclone
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[...]
wikiskywikisky
http://wikisky.org/ is like google maps but looking up! It’s cool, check it out! No related posts.[...]
Mac vs PCMac vs PC
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[...]