mac vs PC vs Linuxmac vs PC vs Linux
Apple has a series of funny commercials comparing the Macintosh with a PC running Windows. They are very well written and presented. I recommend viewing them for the amusement value[...]
hybrid Porschehybrid Porsche
The April 2007 issue of the RACV magazine announces that Porsche is working on a hybrid vehicle. It seems that the award-winning Lexus hybrid vehicle has demonstrated the value of[...]
Trusted Solaris vs SE LinuxTrusted Solaris vs SE Linux
Karl MacMillan writes an interesting review of a Sun article about SE Linux. Not only does he correct errors in the Sun article but he also summarises some of the[...]
questions regarding SE Linuxquestions regarding SE Linux
I just received a question about SE Linux via email. As I don’t want to post private messages containing material that’s globally useful I’ll answer through my blog: > other[...]
death threats against Kathy Sierradeath threats against Kathy Sierra
The prominent blogger and author Kathy Sierra has recently cancelled a tutorial at a conference after receiving death threats. Obviously this is a matter for the police to investigate –[...]
Xen and eth device renamingXen and eth device renaming
Recently I rebooted one of my Debian Xen servers and suddenly all the Ethernet devices which used to be eth0 in the domU’s became eth1. vif = [ ”, ‘bridge=xenbr1’[...]
Save BabeSave Babe
There’s an advertising campaign at the moment opposing cruel treatment of pigs, the web site is at http://www.savebabe.com/ . They have rented advertising space at train stations to publish the[...]
google-bankgoogle-bank
Currently many people have Google advertising on their web sites, it may even be that a majority of the serious Internet users host Google advertising. Given that Google is already[...]
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images for a web siteimages for a web site
When I first started putting pictures on my web site I used to delete the originals (at the time I only had a 3.2G hard drive in my main machine[...]
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power savingpower saving
Adrian von Bidder made an interesting post in response to my post about Spanish wind power. He correctly points out that power sources that have seasonal variations and which may[...]