The Millennium Seed BankThe Millennium Seed Bank
Jonathan Drori gave an interesting TED talk about the Millenium Seed Bank [1]. The potential for discovering new uses of plants for food, medicine, and construction is obvious, so it[...]
Actually You Do CareActually You Do Care
A reasonably common feature in Internet debates is that of one party claiming to not care about the issue. Statements such as “I haven’t got time to debate this” or[...]
Linux Rate-Limiting of an ADSL LinkLinux Rate-Limiting of an ADSL Link
After great pain I’ve got tc working on some Linux routers. The difficulty with limiting an ADSL link is that the ADSL modem has significant buffers and the link between[...]
How not to write the way dumb people think smart people writeHow not to write the way dumb people think smart people write
Don Marti has written an amusing and informative little post about the way that ill-educated people use phrases in print [1]. The one example that didn’t fit with the tone[...]
Expectations and FandomExpectations and Fandom
Russ Allbery has written about the hostile reactions of sci-fi fans toward the delay of a book release [1]. Russ makes some good points regarding the issue of whether paying[...]
LG U990 ViewtyLG U990 Viewty
I have just got a LG U990 “Viewty” mobile phone [1]. It’s a 3G phone and came free on the $29 monthly cap plan from “Three” (minimum monthly spend is[...]
Links May 2009Links May 2009
An interesting opinion post in the NY Times describes the research on early education and how it can affect IQ [1]. Among other things children from poor families who are[...]
Appropriate Talks about PornAppropriate Talks about Porn
There is currently some discussion about a talk which used pornographic imagery and jokes to illustrate points about Ruby programming [1]. A similar event happened in 2006 here is the[...]
The Main Security ProblemThe Main Security Problem
All security problems are to some degree people problems. Code may be buggy, but it was written by people who could have been better trained, had more time to spend[...]
Dom0 Memory Allocation and XDom0 Memory Allocation and X
I’ve previously written about memory squeeze problems in a Xen Dom0 when large amounts of memory were assigned to DomUs [1]. In summary the Dom0 would have problems if started[...]