I’ve just been playing with icmptx, a system for tunneling IP over ICMP Echo which could be handy if I ever find myself blocked by firewalls. Unfortunately the documentation is[...]
Aaron Huey gave a disturbing TED talk titled “America’s native prisoners of war” [1]. He says “the last chapter in any successful genocide is the one in which the oppressor[...]
Choosing a Phone I was considering renewing my Three contract and getting a HTC Desire HD [1]. What I need is a phone that is good for being a ssh[...]
The Problem My SE Linux Play Machine has been down for a couple of weeks. I’ve changed to a cheaper Internet access plan which also allows me to download a[...]
LWN has a recent article titled “The dark side of open source conferences” which concerns sexual assault at conferences [1]. There are a significant number of comments with attempts to[...]
LWN has an article by Valerie Aurora titled “The dark side of open source conferences” [1] which is about sexual harassment and sexual assault at Free Software conferences. Apparently some[...]
Paul Wayper has written a blog post criticising the main chains of grocery stores in Australia [1]. That is the cartel of Coles and Woolworths (which was formerly known as[...]
On the 5th of November Jono Bacon wrote a blog post titled “MAKING OUR WORLD MORE RESPECTFUL” [1]. He then registered the domain OpenRespect.org for his manifesto [2]. Aaron Siego[...]
The discussion in the comments on my post about a mobile phone for Sysadmin use [1] turned to the issue of picture quality. This is an issue for a sysadmin[...]
Election Tomorrow On Saturday we will have a Victorian state election. As usual for state elections most people will vote on issues related to the federal government, the mainstream media[...]