LUG Meetings etcLUG Meetings etc
Recently I was talking to an employee at Safeway (an Australian supermarket chain) about Linux etc. He seemed interested in attending a meeting of my local LUG (which incidentally happens[...]
live.com – Useless Searchlive.com – Useless Search
I’ve just started getting a lot of traffic referred by live.com. It seems that my post Porn for Children [1] is the second link returned from a live.com search for[...]
Blogging and DocumentsBlogging and Documents
It seems that the majority of blog traffic (at least in blogs I read) is time-based. It is personal-diary entry posts, references to current events, predictions about future events, bug[...]
Upgraded to WordPress 2.3Upgraded to WordPress 2.3
I just upgraded to WordPress 2.3. When using Konqueror (my favourite browser) the comment approval is slightly broken (when I tag a comment as spam it usually just turns red[...]
Swap SpaceSwap Space
There is a wide-spread myth that swap space should be twice the size of RAM. This might have provided some benefit when 16M of RAM was a lot and disks[...]
Eating CorpsesEating Corpses
Davyd Madeley writes about vegetarianism for the environment [1] which is listed in Wikipedia as Environmental Vegetarianism [2]. He links to an article on the Huffington Post [3]. The Huffington[...]
Is the Server Dead?Is the Server Dead?
I often get reports such as “the server was dead so I rebooted it“. This really doesn’t help me fix the problem, so if the person who uses the server[...]
CensusCensus
I’m just completing Jeff and Pia Waugh’s Australian Open Source Industry & Community Census [1]. There are some things that can be improved with that survey in particular and surveys[...]
Blogger is Not for Serious BloggingBlogger is Not for Serious Blogging
When I started blogging I used Blogger [1]. After some time I decided that it did not offer me the freedom I desired. I could not easily make changes (I[...]
DMCA and Sci-FiDMCA and Sci-Fi
My previous post about the SFWA falsely issuing DMCA take-down notices [1] has got some reactions, many of which indicate a lack of clear reading of my post. I am[...]