Hot WaterHot Water
A response to a post I wrote about things to do for the environment suggested that there would be a health risk to lowering the temperature of a home hot-water[...]
Porn vs RapePorn vs Rape
Chris Samuel blogs about a plan to censor porn from the Internet in Australia. According to the ZDNet article the Fundamentalist Christian party Family First wants a national porn filter[...]
Blogs and Conversation (or Lack Therof)Blogs and Conversation (or Lack Therof)
I recently received an email from RSA inviting me to read their blog (after having requested an evaluation copy of one of their products). They invited me to “join the[...]
A Worse Visual MigraineA Worse Visual Migraine
Last night I had a Visual Migraine that was significantly worse than the previous ones. It started in the usual manner (flickering lights in my central vision and an inability[...]
Bonnie++ and Postal shirtsBonnie++ and Postal shirts
Dear lazyweb, I want to design T-Shirts for my Bonnie++ and Postal projects. But representing those projects in a picture seems more difficult than SE Linux (see one of my[...]
OutsourcingOutsourcing
It’s interesting to see an eWeek article about outsourcing to Canada, apparently the US immigration laws are restrictive enough that US companies (such as Microsoft) are establishing offices there. It[...]
Red Hat virt-install and PartitionsRed Hat virt-install and Partitions
I have recently been using virt-install on CentOS 5 to install some virtual machines (I previously posted a summary of the experience). One problem I had is the inability to[...]
ChildhoodChildhood
Recently there has been some discussion and controversy about a 15yo boy being allowed to perform a Caesarian operation on a woman (without her consent). Don Marti seems to think[...]
A Support Guide for XenA Support Guide for Xen
Here’s a guide to supporting Xen servers for people who are not Linux experts. If your job means that you have root access to a Xen server that someone else[...]
Train RoutingTrain Routing
Last year I spent several months living on one side of Melbourne and working on the other and travelling by train to work. Every day I had to catch two[...]