Desktop Publishing is WrongDesktop Publishing is Wrong
When I first started using computers a “word processor” was a program that edited text. The most common and affordable printers were dot-matrix and people who wanted good quality printing[...]
Blog CommentsBlog Comments
John Scalzi wrote an insightful post about the utility of blog comments with the way the Internet works nowadays [1]. He starts out focusing on hate comments that could reasonably[...]
Links June 2014Links June 2014
Russ Albery wrote an insightful blog post about trust, computer security, and training programmers [1]. He makes a good case that social problems in our community decrease the availability of[...]
Fixing Strange Directory Write AccessFixing Strange Directory Write Access
type=AVC msg=audit(1403622580.061:96): avc: denied { write } for pid=1331 comm="mysqld_safe" name="/" dev="dm-0" ino=256 scontext=system_u:system_r:mysqld_safe_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:root_t:s0 tclass=dir type=SYSCALL msg=audit(1403622580.061:96): arch=c000003e syscall=269 success=yes exit=0 a0=ffffffffffffff9c a1=7f5e09bfe798 a2=2 a3=2 items=0 ppid=1109 pid=1331 auid=4294967295[...]
Expectations of Skill and TimeExpectations of Skill and Time
On many occasions I’ve seen discussions about the background knowledge that people are expected to have to contribute to FOSS projects. Often the background knowledge is quite different from the[...]
Phone Car AccessoriesPhone Car Accessories
Tree Frog Dashboard Mat I’ve been given some more MobileZap products to review. The first is the Tree Frog anti-slip dashboard mat [1]. This is designed to allow a phone[...]
Google Hardware SupportGoogle Hardware Support
Ironically just 5 days after writing about how I choose Android devices for a long service life [1] my wife’s Nexus 5 (with 32G of RAM (sorry Flash storage) to[...]
Android Device Service LifeAndroid Device Service Life
In recent years Android devices have been the most expensive things I’ve purchased apart from airline tickets and other travel/holiday expenses. As they are expensive I’d like to use them[...]
Links May 2014Links May 2014
Charmian Gooch gave an interesting TED talk about her efforts to fight organised crime and corruption by prohibiting anonymous companies [1]. The idea of a company is to protect the[...]
Why I Use BTRFSWhy I Use BTRFS
I’ve just had to do yet another backup/format/restore operation on my workstation due to a BTRFS corruption problem, but as usual I didn’t lose any data. The BTRFS data integrity[...]