flash for main storageflash for main storage
I was in a discussion about flash on a closed mailing list, so I’ll post my comments here. I believe that flash will soon be suitable for main storage on[...]
a good security design for an officea good security design for an office
One issue that is rarely considered is how to deal with office break-ins for the purpose of espionage. I believe that this issue has been solved reasonably well for military[...]
the death penaltythe death penalty
I have just read the news about Saddam finally receiving the death penalty (it did not seem likely that his case would have any other outcome) and have been thinking[...]
Sell a BandSell a Band
sellaband.com has an interesting business model. If you want to make money from your band you can sign up to their site and create a web site with some sample[...]
religious requirements for free software developmentreligious requirements for free software development
Relgions commonly require contributions to charitable causes and helping other people. Developing free software without expecting a reward seems to fit that criteria. If my primary religious belief (atheism) turns[...]
Xen and serial portsXen and serial ports
Currently there is a serious problem with Xen. Fedora Core 5 with kernel 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5xen and Debian/unstable with kernel 2.6.18-1-xen-686 will not recognise both PC serial ports, and it appears that[...]
god on my sidegod on my side
Today I saw the movie God On My Side by Andrew Denton. It’s an interesting movie about the televangelist industry in the US. I expected it to be about the[...]
planets and day 19 of the beardplanets and day 19 of the beard
I notice that Planet Linux Australia has been changed to not list the feeds URLs, instead it displays the HTML pages for the blogs. I believe this is a bad[...]
peak oilpeak oil
This PDF (700K) gives a useful summary of the Peak Oil issues. It’s on the Defence in the National Interest (DNI) web site, an interesting site of US conservative political[...]
blogging and self-promotionblogging and self-promotion
Are blogs and conference speeches inherently about self promotion? If so is that a bad thing? Recently I mentioned my Planet configuration on a mailing list where most people don’t[...]