lifetime failures (LF)lifetime failures (LF)
This morning at LCA Andrew Tanenbaum gave a talk about Minix 3 and his work on creating reliable software. He cited examples of consumer electronics devices such as TVs that[...]
Some ideas for running a conferenceSome ideas for running a conference
Firstly for smooth running of the presentations it would be ideal if laptops were provided for displaying all presentations (obviously this wouldn’t work for live software demos but it would[...]
LCA talkLCA talk
This afternoon I gave a talk at the Debian mini-conf of LCA on security improvements that are needed in Debian, the notes are online here. The talk didn’t go quite[...]
dbus errordbus error
Strange dbus error from the KDE power monitoring tool No related posts.[...]
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top 10 girl geekstop 10 girl geeks
We have a list of 10 (famous) girl geeks from CNET and one from someone else. The CNET list has Ada Byron, Grace Hopper, Mary Shelly, and Marie Curie. Mary[...]
ps and securityps and security
A post by Scott James Remnant describes how to hide command-line options from PS output. It’s handy to know that but that post made one significant implication that I strongly[...]
some random Linux tipssome random Linux tips
echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/block_dump The above command sets a sysctl to cause the kernel to log all disk writes. Below is a sample of the output from it. Beware that[...]
coolingcooling
Recently there has been some really hot weather in Melbourne that made me search for alternate methods of cooling. The first and easiest method I discovered is to keep a[...]
XephyrXephyr
As part of my work on Xen I’ve been playing with Xephyr (a replacement for Xnest). My plan is to use Xen instances for running different versions of desktop environments.[...]
document storagedocument storage
I have been asked for advice about long-term storage of documents. I decided to blog about it because my thoughts may be useful to others, and because if I get[...]