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[...]
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[...]
Strange dbus error from the KDE power monitoring tool No related posts.[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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.[...]
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[...]
The issue of core file management has come up for discussion again in the SE Linux list. I believe that there are two essential security requirements for managing core files,[...]