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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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)[...]
My post about securing an office received many comments, so many that I had to write another blog entry to respond to them and also add some other things I[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]