lemonup.com – pirateslemonup.com – pirates
The URL http://linuxresource.lemonup.com/ currently has a mirror of my blog. Disregarding the DMCA take-down notice I sent them a week ago (which is also mirrored on their own site) they[...]
school ratingschool rating
The web site <A HREF="http://au.ratemyteachers.com/">http://au.ratemyteachers.com/</A> allows Australian students to rate their teachers. Ratings are anonymous and give teachers a score out of 5 as well as allowing students to[...]
DMCA etcDMCA etc
A few days ago I wrote my first DMCA take-down notice, I followed the instructions on the Wikipedia page. The reason for this was that someone was mirroring my blog[...]
LUG talks todayLUG talks today
Today I gave three talks at my local LUG. The first was my latest SE Linux talk (I’ll put the notes online soon). The second was a talk about voting.[...]
more about Heartbeatmore about Heartbeat
In a comment on my blog post “a Heartbeat developer comments on my blog post” Alan Robertson writes: I got in a hurry on my math because of the emergency.[...]
comment spamcomment spam
The war on comment-spam has now begun. It appears that Blogger might have some anti-spam measures of which I was unaware. Otherwise it’s a strange coincidence that I get a[...]
new blognew blog
I am starting to move my blog to my own WordPress server. Here is the new URL for my main blog (feed), and here is the new URL for my[...]
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[...]
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[...]