Sell a BandSell a Band
sellaband.com has an interesting business model. If you want to make money from your band you can sign up to their site and create a web site with some sample[...]
religious requirements for free software developmentreligious requirements for free software development
Relgions commonly require contributions to charitable causes and helping other people. Developing free software without expecting a reward seems to fit that criteria. If my primary religious belief (atheism) turns[...]
Xen and serial portsXen and serial ports
Currently there is a serious problem with Xen. Fedora Core 5 with kernel 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5xen and Debian/unstable with kernel 2.6.18-1-xen-686 will not recognise both PC serial ports, and it appears that[...]
god on my sidegod on my side
Today I saw the movie God On My Side by Andrew Denton. It’s an interesting movie about the televangelist industry in the US. I expected it to be about the[...]
planets and day 19 of the beardplanets and day 19 of the beard
I notice that Planet Linux Australia has been changed to not list the feeds URLs, instead it displays the HTML pages for the blogs. I believe this is a bad[...]
peak oilpeak oil
This PDF (700K) gives a useful summary of the Peak Oil issues. It’s on the Defence in the National Interest (DNI) web site, an interesting site of US conservative political[...]
blogging and self-promotionblogging and self-promotion
Are blogs and conference speeches inherently about self promotion? If so is that a bad thing? Recently I mentioned my Planet configuration on a mailing list where most people don’t[...]
economics of nuclear powereconomics of nuclear power
It’s interesting to note in this press release from the Australian Greens that Dr Ziggy Switkowski (head of the Prime Minister’s nuclear taskforce) that nuclear power is not economically viable[...]
new hybrid Camrynew hybrid Camry
Toyota in the US has released a hybrid Camry which seems to be the larger Prius that many people have wanted. Since it’s release the Prius has been greatly desired[...]
blogs and bug trackingblogs and bug tracking
I believe that adding blogging technology to bug tracking systems (such as the Debian BTS and the Red Hat Bugzilla) offers significant benefits for users and developers. It seems that[...]