Citing WikipediaCiting Wikipedia
A meme that has been going around is that you can’t cite Wikipedia. You can’t Cite Wikipedia Academically Now it’s well known and generally agreed that you can’t cite Wikipedia[...]
Xen and Debian/SqueezeXen and Debian/Squeeze
Ben Hutchings announced that the Debian kernel team are now building Xen flavoured kernels for Debian/Unstable [1]. Thanks to Max Attems and the rest of the kernel team for this[...]
Maintaining Screen OutputMaintaining Screen Output
In my post about getting started with KVM I noted the fact that I had problems keeping screen output after the program exits [1]. The following snippet of shell code[...]
Starting with KVMStarting with KVM
I’ve just bought a new Thinkpad that has hardware virtualisation support and I’ve got KVM running. HugePages The Linux-KVM site has some information on using hugetlbfs to allow the use[...]
Thinkpad T61Thinkpad T61
I’ve now had my new Thinkpad T61 [1] for almost a month. The letters on the keyboard are not even starting to wear off which is unusual, either this Thinkpad[...]
The YubikeyThe Yubikey
Some time ago Yubico were kind enough to send me an evaluation copy of their Yubikey device. I’ve finally got around to reviewing it and making deployment plans for buying[...]
Types of Security TokensTypes of Security Tokens
The Security Token Wikipedia page doesn’t seem to clearly describe the types of token. Categories of Security Token It seems to me that the following categories encompass all security tokens:[...]
CAL – Self-Serving and UselessCAL – Self-Serving and Useless
Brendan Scott linked to a couple of articles about CAL (the Copyright Agency Limited) [1]. I have previously written about CAL and the way that they charge organisations for the[...]
Designing a Secure Linux SystemDesigning a Secure Linux System
The Threat Bruce Schneier’s blog post about the Mariposa Botnet has an interesting discussion in the comments about how to make a secure system [1]. Note that the threat is[...]
Storage vs RAM SizeStorage vs RAM Size
In a comment on my post Shared Objects and Big Applications about memlockd [1] mic said that they use memlockd to lock the entire root filesystem in RAM. Here is[...]