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[...]
MySQL security in DebianMySQL security in Debian
Currently there is a problem with the MySQL default install in Debian/Etch (and probably other distributions too). It sets up “root” with dba access with no password by default, the[...]
booting from USB for securitybooting from USB for security
Sune Vuorela asks about how to secure important data such as GPG keys on laptops. I believe that the ideal solution involves booting from a USB device with an encrypted[...]
free laptopfree laptop
Jesus Climent writes about donating laptops. Free Thinkpad I have a Thinkpad 385xd laptop to give away for free. It has a PentiumMMX-233 CPU, 96M of RAM, a 3.2G IDE[...]
first look at CentOS 5 Xenfirst look at CentOS 5 Xen
I have just installed a machine running CentOS 5 as a Xen server. I installed a full GUI environment on the dom0 so that GUI tools can be used for[...]
lemonup and blog licenselemonup and blog license
I have just updated my previous post about licenses and also explicitely licensed my blog. Previously I had used a Creative-Commons share-alike license for lecture notes to allow commercial use[...]
the Right to Forkthe Right to Fork
Leon Brooks blogged about the Right to Fork (an essential right for free software development) but notes that governments of countries don’t permit such a right. One of the criteria[...]