another visual migraineanother visual migraine
This morning while travelling to work by tram I had another visual migraine. It was a little worse than last time, not only did everything I focussed on appear to[...]
encryption speed – Debian vs Fedoraencryption speed – Debian vs Fedora
I’m in the process of converting my Fedora/rawhide laptop to Debian. On Fedora the AES encrypted filesystems deliver about 38MB/s read speed according to dd. On Debian the speed is[...]
hybrid Lexus is best luxury carhybrid Lexus is best luxury car
The Lexus GS 450 hybrid petrol/electric car has been given the award for Australia’s best luxury car! The judging for this contest rated fuel efficiency as low importance, because luxury[...]
interesting thingsinteresting things
/tmp /mnt/bind bind bind 0 0 Today I discovered that the above syntax works in the /etc/fstab file. This enables a bind mount of /tmp to /mnt/bind which effectively makes[...]
AMD developer CenterAMD developer Center
This morning I received an email from the AMD Developer Center advising me that I need to fill out their NDA if I want access to their development machines. I[...]
comment-less blogscomment-less blogs
Are comment-less blogs missing the spirit of blogging? It seems to me that the most significant development about blogging is the idea that anyone can write. Prior to blogs news-papers[...]
what defines a well operating planet?what defines a well operating planet?
At OSDC Mary Gardiner gave a talk titled The Planet Feed Reader: Better Living Through Gravity. During the course of the presentation she expressed the opinion that short dialog based[...]
quantum evolutionquantum evolution
On several occasions in discussions about life etc friends have mentioned the theory that quantum mechanics dictates the way our cells work. In the past I have not been convinced.[...]
some questions about disk encryptionsome questions about disk encryption
On a mailing list some questions were asked about disk encryption, I decided to blog the answer for the benefit of others: What type of encryption would be the strongest?[...]
IDE hard drivesIDE hard drives
I just lent two 80G IDE drives to a friend, and he re-paid me with 160G drives. Generally I don’t mind people repaying hardware loans with better gear (much better[...]