Party for U18s at LCA 2009Party for U18s at LCA 2009
This year at Linux.Conf.Au there was a student party sponsored by Google. The party was held in a bar and lots of free drinks were provided. This was fine for[...]
Security Blogging ContestSecurity Blogging Contest
It seems that my blogging contest idea is a failure. Could the interested people please meet me near the LCA registration desk at the start of the lunch breakh today[...]
Free TextbooksFree Textbooks
I am going to make some suggestions to a company that might possibly sponsor development of free electronic text books for schools (suitable for running on an OLPC machine). I[...]
Suse and LCASuse and LCA
I previously wrote about how I gave a talk about SE Linux at a conference spot when a talk about AppArmor was scheduled. It turned out that the Suse people[...]
My LCA TalkMy LCA Talk
Last year at LCA Crispin Cowan suggested to me that I make a joint offer of a combined tutorial on SE Linux and AppArmor as a way of publicly comparing[...]
Talking FastTalking Fast
My previous post about my LCA mini-conf talk received an interesting comment from Christopher Neugebauer. He said that he had some trouble understanding me because I speak quickly, he wasn’t[...]
Change of Rules for the Blogging ContestChange of Rules for the Blogging Contest
Due to the lack of entries so far I am amending the rules. It is no longer required that an entry be on the blog of the person who submitted[...]
LCA 2008 Security MiniconfLCA 2008 Security Miniconf
Today I gave a talk about Debian security at the security mini-conf of LCA. Before I started the talk I asked for suggestions as to how to get more entries[...]
Write Intent BitmapsWrite Intent Bitmaps
When previously writing about how I partition disks [1] I mentioned that I use smaller RAID partitions than the maximum size to reduce reconstruction time in the event of a[...]
Other Planet LCA 2008Other Planet LCA 2008
The Planet installation for the Linux.Conf.Au (the main Linux conference in Australia and one of the biggest and best Linux conferences in the world) is designed to only syndicate posts[...]