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[...]
Improving Computer ReliabilityImproving Computer Reliability
In a comment on my post about Taxing Inferior Products [1] Ben pointed out that most crashes are due to software bugs. Both Ben and I work on the Debian[...]
A Linux Conference as a RitualA Linux Conference as a Ritual
Sociological Images has an interesting post by Jay Livingston PhD about a tennis final as a ritual [1]. The main point is that you can get a much better view[...]
Taxing Inferior ProductsTaxing Inferior Products
I recently had a medical appointment cancelled due to a “computer crash”. Apparently the reception computer crashed and lost all bookings for a day and they just made new bookings[...]
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[...]