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[...]
xenxen
I’m currently working on a little Debian Xen server, and I encountered a few problems that aren’t documented. The first problem I found was that serial ports don’t work with[...]
Hans ReiserHans Reiser
According to this article in the San Francisco Chronicle Hans Reiser pled “not guilty” to the charge of murdering his wife. This isn’t particularly exciting news as all previous indications[...]
when you can’t get along with other developerswhen you can’t get along with other developers
Many years ago I was involved in a free software development project with write access to the source tree. For reasons that are not relevant to this post (and which[...]
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Supporting an Election CampaignSupporting an Election Campaign
Yesterday I handed out “how to vote” cards for the Greens at the state election. It did seem to be a significant waste to have so much paper produced. Slightly[...]
Linux support by politiciansLinux support by politicians
In two days time we are having a state election in Victoria (Australia). For this election there is only one party with policies that are positive towards free software, that[...]
nuclear power in Australianuclear power in Australia
From Crikey: If a government wanted to figure out how best to defend the country, it wouldn’t hold an inquiry into the air force. It would hold an inquiry into[...]
biometrics and passwordsbiometrics and passwords
In a comment on my post more about securing an office someone suggested using biometrics. The positive aspect of biometrics is that they can’t be lost, no-one is accidentally going[...]
economics of a computer store (why they don’t stock what you want)economics of a computer store (why they don’t stock what you want)
In some mailing list discussions recently some people demonstrated a lack of knowledge of the economics of a shop. Having run a shop for a few years (an Internet Cafe)[...]