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[...]
The Squirrel and the GrasshopperThe Squirrel and the Grasshopper
There’s a story going around the neo-con blogs titled “The Squirrel and the Grasshopper”. It was forwarded to me by a business associate with the claim that it’s “right on[...]
Debian SE Linux policy bugDebian SE Linux policy bug
checkmodule -m -o local.mod local.te semodule_package -o local.pp -m local.mod semodule -u local.pp Save the following policy as local.te and then run the above commands to make semodule work correctly[...]
SE Linux on Debian in 5 minutesSE Linux on Debian in 5 minutes
Following from my 5 minute OSDC talk yesterday on 5 security improvements needed in Linux distributions I gave a 5 minute talk on installing SE Linux on Debian etch. To[...]
some advice for job seekerssome advice for job seekers
A member of the free software community recently sent me their CV and asked for assistance in getting a job. Some of my suggestions are globally applicable so I’m blogging[...]