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[...]
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[...]