Links January 2009Links January 2009
Jennifer 8 Lee gave an interesting TED talk about the spread and evolution of what is called “Chinese food” [1]. In that talk she compares McDonalds to Microsoft and Chinese[...]
SE-LAPPSE-LAPP
On Tuesday afternoon I gave a talk on behalf of KaiGai Kohei about SE Linux and the LAPP (Linux Apache, PostgreSQL, PHP/Perl) stack. KaiGai has blogged about this [1], unfortunately[...]
Status of SE Linux in Debian LCA 2009Status of SE Linux in Debian LCA 2009
This morning I gave a talk at the Security mini-conf of LCA about the status of SE Linux in Debian. Here is a summary of the issues I covered: General[...]
Security Lessons from a FerrySecurity Lessons from a Ferry
On Saturday I traveled from Victoria to Tasmania via the ferry (to attend LCA), they grossly failed in their security measures and provide three lessons for others: Make it possible[...]
Security Enhanced PostgreSQLSecurity Enhanced PostgreSQL
Today was the first day of Linux Conf Au 2009 [1]. KaiGai Kohei was unable to attend the conference and give a database mini-conf presentation about his work on Security[...]
Old PDA vs New Mobile Phone for PDA useOld PDA vs New Mobile Phone for PDA use
Since about 2002 I have been using a iPaQ [1] for taking notes while on the move. I have a pair of H3950 iPaQs that were given to me for[...]
Planet FloodingPlanet Flooding
One annoying thing that happens regularly is “Planet Flooding”. This is when one of the many blogs that is syndicated by a public Planet installation changes it’s time stamps and[...]
Debian Multimedia and SE LinuxDebian Multimedia and SE Linux
I have just had a need to install packages from Debian-Multimedia.org to correctly play .3gp files from my mobile phone (the stock Mplayer in Debian would not play the sound).[...]
Video Camera for Shared MoviesVideo Camera for Shared Movies
I have never felt inclined to create content for Youtube due to the low resolution of the display and the fact that only one format is supported (Flash which is[...]
Tidal RiverTidal River
Tim (a member of my local LUG) writes about some observations he has made of a nearby river and speculates on a tidal bore-like phenomenon [1]. One thing that surprised[...]