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[...]
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[...]
/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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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.[...]
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?[...]
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[...]
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[...]