free software liason?free software liason?
In my previous work as a sys-admin I have worked for a number of companies that depend heavily on free software. If you use a commercially supported distribution such as[...]
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memes that damage debianmemes that damage debian
The Debian project is afflicted with several damaging memes. One that is causing problems at the moment is the idea that life should be fair. Unfortunately life is inherently unfair,[...]
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more about vista securitymore about vista security
While reading the discussion of Vista security on Bruce Schneier’s blog it occurred to me that comparing the issues of DRM that face MS with the issues faced by SE[...]
email disclaimersemail disclaimers
Andre Pang blogs about the annoyance of email disclaimers. For a while I had a .sig indicating that it was a condition of sending email to me that the sender[...]
source dump blogsource dump blog
Inspired by Julien Goodwin‘s post I created a new blog for myself named Source Dump. Source is different to other blog content in that updates to fix bugs may be[...]
music for childrenmusic for children
Adam Rosi-Kessel made an interesting post about They Might Be Giants producing children’s music because their original fan base are now old enough to have children. From casual inspection of[...]
google readergoogle reader
From a suggestion on my previous blog entry I decided to test out google reader. The first problem was that it caused Konqueror to SEGV in etch, I filed a[...]
planet – resource useplanet – resource use
I just noticed that /usr/bin/planetplanet is using about 120M of RAM. This isn’t currently a problem as I’m running it on a machine with 256M of RAM, however I would[...]
DOSing Windows VistaDOSing Windows Vista
Chris Samual writes a good summary of Peter Gutmann’s analysis of the cost of Vista (in terms of DRM). The following paragraph in the article however seemed more interesting to[...]
MythTVMythTV
I’ve just been trying to set up a MythTV system, I’ve had the hardware for this for a while but until my TV broke I hadn’t found the time to[...]