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[...]
thinkpad back from repairthinkpad back from repair
On Tuesday my Thinkpad was taken for service to fix the problem described in this post. The problems I described were overheating, wear on the keyboard (from a minimum of[...]
Spanish wind powerSpanish wind power
The latest news is that Spain has wind power as it’s main source of electricity. The second largest source is nuclear and the third is coal. This is due to[...]
mixing CPUsmixing CPUs
Recently I bought a HP DL385 Opteron server at auction. It has an Opteron 265 1.8GHz dual-core CPU and is designed for SFF (Small Form Factor) SAS disks. A friend[...]