GM Food and VaccinesGM Food and Vaccines
Michael Specter gave an interesting TED talk about the dangers of science-denial [1]. Most of his talk is about the people who oppose vaccines, such as the former Playboy model[...]
A School IP ProjectA School IP Project
The music industry seems fairly aggressive in taking legal action against children when they break the licence terms of copyright material. I think it would be good to teach children[...]
Google Chrome and SE LinuxGoogle Chrome and SE Linux
[107108.433300] chrome[12262]: segfault at bbadbeef ip 0000000000fbea18 sp 00007fffcf348100 error 6 in chrome[400000+27ad000] When I first tried running the Google Chrome web browser [1] on SE Linux it recursively displayed[...]
Timing ProcessesTiming Processes
One thing that happens periodically is that I start a process from an interactive shell, discover that it takes longer than expected, and then want to know how long it[...]
Pants To PovertyPants To Poverty
On Wednesday I saw a group of people wearing nothing but underwear walking through the Melbourne CBD. They were promoting Pants To Poverty which is a UK based underwear company[...]
Noise Canceling Headphones and People TalkingNoise Canceling Headphones and People Talking
The Problem I was asked for advice on buying headphones to protect students who have medical conditions that make them sensitive to noise, such headphones would have to allow them[...]
systemd – a Replacement for init etcsystemd – a Replacement for init etc
The systemd projecct is an interesting concept for replacing init and related code [1]. There have been a few attempts to replace the old init system, upstart is getting some[...]
Flash, Apple, and LinuxFlash, Apple, and Linux
Steve Jobs has published an interesting article about Flash [1]. He criticises Flash for being proprietary, this seems a little hypocritical coming from Apple (who’s the only competitor for Microsoft[...]
Lexmark Supposedly Supports LinuxLexmark Supposedly Supports Linux
I wanted to get a Lexmark Prestige Pro805 printer to work under Linux, due to bad drivers from Lexmark and no driver support in Debian/Unstable I’ve given up and advised[...]
Marshmallow Challenge for Linux ProgrammersMarshmallow Challenge for Linux Programmers
Tom Wujec gave an interesting TED talk about training people in team-work and engineering through building the tallest possible structures from 20 pieces of spaghetti, 1 yard of string, and[...]