Letter Frequency in Account NamesLetter Frequency in Account Names
It’s a common practice when hosting email or web space for large numbers of users to group the accounts by the first letter. This is due to performance problems on[...]
The Cost of Owning a CarThe Cost of Owning a Car
There has been a lot of talk recently about the cost of petrol, Colin Charles is one of the few people to consider the issue of wages in this discussion[...]
What is Appropriate Advertising?What is Appropriate Advertising?
Colin Charles writes about a woman who is selling advertising space on herself [1]. Like Colin I haven’t bought a t-shirt in about 9 years (apart from some Cafepress ones[...]
I’m Skeptical about Robotic NanotechI’m Skeptical about Robotic Nanotech
There has been a lot of fear-mongering about nanotech. The idea is that little robots will eat people (or maybe eat things that we depend on such as essential food[...]
Wyndham Resorts is a Persistent SpammerWyndham Resorts is a Persistent Spammer
Over the last week I have received five phone calls from Wyndham Resorts asking if I would like to be surveyed. Every time I tell them that I am not[...]
ECC RAM is more useful than RAIDECC RAM is more useful than RAID
A common myth in the computer industry seems to be that ECC (Error Correcting Code – a Hamming Code [0]) RAM is only a server feature. The difference between a[...]
Perpetual MotionPerpetual Motion
It seems that many blog posts related to fuel use (such as my post from yesterday about record oil prices [1]) are getting adverts about perpetual motion [2]. Note that[...]
Record Oil PricesRecord Oil Prices
MarketWatch reports that oil prices had the biggest daily gain on record, going up $11 in one day. They claim that this is due to an impending Israeli attack on[...]
SE Linux Support in GPGSE Linux Support in GPG
In May 2002 I had an idea for securing access to GNUPG [1]. What I did was to write SE Linux policy to only permit the gpg program to access[...]
I Just Joined SAGEI Just Joined SAGE
I’ve just joined SAGE AU – the System Administrators Guild of Australia [1] . I’ve known about SAGE for a long time, in 2006 I presented a paper at their[...]