The first couple of times I tried to setup Bittorrent I had a lot of trouble. Here is a basic summary of what you need to do: btmakemetafile.bittorrent test.iso http://server.example.com:8000/announce[...]
Peter Singer wrote an interesting article for the New York Times which makes a good case for rationing health care on the basis of a ratio of the amount of[...]
ZDNet has an interesting article about Amazon unselling books to Kindle owners [1]. Apparently the books Animal Farm and 1984 were added to the Kindle list by unauthorised people (Engaget[...]
Fandom is something that has never made sense to me. If a sport such as football interested me then I would play it. Being good at something is not a[...]
Currently there is an ongoing debate about a joke that was made during a lecture about free software. I have previously written about why I think it’s inappropriate with regard[...]
Katherine Fulton gave a TED talk about the future of philanthropy [1]. She started out well with an overview of some of the technical methods, but I felt that the[...]
In mailing list discussions I’ve seen Windows users get rather unhappy when people talk about “Hating Microsoft“, this often includes claims that it’s supposedly “unprofessional” to hate one vendor. Some[...]
I previously wrote about the appropriate references to porn in lectures about Computer Science [1]. It seemed that by providing a short list of all the appropriate ways that porn[...]
Daniel Stone has criticised the IT journalist Sam Varghese for writing a negative article about a college student [1]. The student in question is 21 years old, that means he[...]
I have released version 1.96 of Bonnie++ in the experimental branch [1]. The main changes are: Made it compile on Solaris again (version 1.95 broke that) Now supports more files[...]