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[...]
My First Ingress AnomalyMy First Ingress Anomaly
Ingress is an Android phone game developed by Google where you have to go to various places to capture “portals” which are based on landmarks or places of note. There’s[...]
Mobile Phones and Cognitive CostsMobile Phones and Cognitive Costs
I previously wrote about the case for a Basic Income in Australia [1]. Since then I read an interesting article by Rutger Bregman in the Dutch site The Correspondent discussing[...]
BTRFS vs LVMBTRFS vs LVM
For some years LVM (the Linux Logical Volume Manager) has been used in most Linux systems. LVM allows one or more storage devices (either disks, partitions, or RAID sets) to[...]
Source Escrow for Proprietary SoftwareSource Escrow for Proprietary Software
British taxpayers are paying for extra support for Windows XP due to a lack of planning by the UK government [1]. While the cost of this is trivial compared to[...]
Links April 2014Links April 2014
Yves Rossy is the Jetman, he flys with a wing and four jet engines strapped to his body, he gave an interesting TED talk about flying along with some exciting[...]
Autism and the Treatment of Women AgainAutism and the Treatment of Women Again
Background I’ve previously written about the claim that people use Autism as an excuse for bad behavior [1]. In summary it doesn’t and such claims instead lead to people not[...]
Swap Breaking SSDSwap Breaking SSD
I’ve seen many comments about swap space and SSD claiming that swap will inherently destroy SSD through using too many writes. The latest was in the comments of my post[...]
BTRFS Status April 2014BTRFS Status April 2014
Since my blog post about BTRFS in March [1] not much has changed for me. Until yesterday I was using 3.13 kernels on all my systems and dealing with the[...]