2006 Open Source Symposium2006 Open Source Symposium
Today (well yesterday as of 30 minutes ago) I spoke at the Open Source Symposium in Melbourne. This is an event sponsored by Red Hat. The first day was the[...]
fair trade is the Linux wayfair trade is the Linux way
I have recently purchased a large quantity of fair trade chocolate. Fair trade means that the people who produce the products will be paid a fair price for their products[...]
Outsourcing – Bad for Corporations but Good for the WorldOutsourcing – Bad for Corporations but Good for the World
There is ongoing discussion about whether outsourcing is good or bad. The general assumptions seem to be that it is bad for people who work in the computer industry (more[...]
terrorist “weakest link”terrorist “weakest link”
In the game show The Weakest Link competitors get voted off, usually not on whether they are weak but on whether the other contestents consider them to be a threat.[...]
car-poolingcar-pooling
I am constantly amazed at the apparent lack of interest in car-pooling when travelling between LUV meetings and the restaurant where we have dinner. After the last meeting I was[...]
run an insecure system and get rapedrun an insecure system and get raped
After a recent mailing list discussion about computer security I’m going to be quoted in someone’s .sig so I think that I need to write a blog entry. Here is[...]
laptop security on planeslaptop security on planes
There has been a lot of discussion recently about how to take laptops on planes following the supposed terror threat in the UK which has been debunked by The Register[...]
more on anti-spammore on anti-spam
In response to my last entry about anti-spam measures and the difficulty of blocking SPAM at the SMTP protocol level I received a few responses. Brian May pointed out that[...]
blocking spamblocking spam
There are two critical things that any anti-spam system must do, it must not lose email and it must not cause damage to the rest of the net. To avoid[...]
a newbie question about SE Linux and anti-spam measuresa newbie question about SE Linux and anti-spam measures
An anti-spam measure that is used by a very small number of people is that of verifying the sender address by connecting to the sending mail server. For example when[...]