Links August 2014Links August 2014
Matt Palmer wrote a good overview of DNSSEC [1]. Sociological Images has an interesting article making the case for phasing out the US $0.01 coin [2]. The Australian $0.01 and[...]
Men Commenting on Women’s IssuesMen Commenting on Women’s Issues
A lecture at LCA 2011 which included some inappropriate slides was followed by long discussions on mailing lists. In February 2011 I wrote a blog post debunking some of the[...]
Being Obviously Wrong About AutismBeing Obviously Wrong About Autism
I’m watching a Louis Theroux documentary about Autism (here’s the link to the BBC web site [1]). The main thing that strikes me so far (after watching 7.5 minutes of[...]
Booting GPTBooting GPT
I’m installing new 4TB disks on an older Dell server, it’s a PowerEdge T110 with a G6950 CPU so it’s not really old, but it’s a couple of generations behind[...]
More BTRFS FunMore BTRFS Fun
I wrote a BTRFS status report yesterday commenting on the uneventful use of BTRFS recently [1]. Early this morning the server that stores my email (which had 93 days uptime)[...]
Links July 2014Links July 2014
Dave Johnson wrote an interesting article for Salon about companies ripping off the tax system by claiming that all their income is produced in low tax countries [1]. Seb Lee-Delisle[...]
BTRFS Status July 2014BTRFS Status July 2014
My last BTRFS status report was in April [1], it wasn’t the most positive report with data corruption and system hangs. Hacker News has a brief discussion of BTRFS which[...]
Android Screen SavingAndroid Screen Saving
Just over a year ago I bought a Samsung Galaxy Note 2 [1]. About 3 months ago I noticed that some of the Ingress menus had burned in to the[...]
Happiness and Lecture QuestionsHappiness and Lecture Questions
I just attended a lecture about happiness comparing Australia and India at the Australia India Institute [1]. The lecture was interesting but the “questions” were so bad that it makes[...]
Public Lectures About FOSSPublic Lectures About FOSS
Eventbrite I’ve recently started using the Eventbrite Web site [1] and the associated Eventbrite Android app [2] to discover public events in my area. Both the web site and the[...]