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Jetstar has announced some new changes to the way they manage their IT infrastructure [1]. Some parts of it are obvious things that people have been doing (or wanting to do) for a long time – such as using thin clients with no moving parts (not even cooling fans). But the really interesting part is […] September 4th, 2009 | Tags: Most Popular | Category: Career, Security | 12 comments - (Comments are closed) The Washington Monthly has an interesting article about healthcare and Free Software [1]. It seems that a free system named “VistA” from the US Veterans Affairs department (not to be confused with the unpopular OS “Vista” that Microsoft released a few years ago) is competing against a range of proprietary software for managing patient data. […] September 2nd, 2009 | Tags: Most Popular | Category: Liberty | Comments are closed Bruce Everiss has received two threatening letters from a NSW law firm representing the Chinese game company Evony. Here is the latest where they whinge about his publication of their first letter [1] (NB if threaten to sue a blogger you have to expect your letter to be published, it’s not discourteous it’s just the […] The CK12 project is developing free (CC by SA) textbooks for the K-12 market (with a current focus on the early years of high school) [1]. Their primary aim seems to be flex-books – text books that can be localised and modified to better suit the needs of the students. But of course there are […] August 29th, 2009 | Tags: Most Popular | Category: Liberty, Security | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) I have a Xen server that I use for testing which is fairly lightly loaded. I considered making it diskless to save some electricity use (which also means heat dissipation in summer) and also some noise. The first step is to setup a PXE server. This is reasonably well documented in the Debian Administration article […] I predict that over the course of the next 10 years there will be more security problems discovered in Sendmail than in Postfix and Qmail combined. I predict that the Sendmail problems will be greater in number and severity. I also predict that today’s versions of Postfix and Qmail will still be usable in 10 […] August 20th, 2009 | Tags: Most Popular | Category: Prediction, Security | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) For a long time the use of HTTP cookies [1] for tracking the web browsing habits of users has been well known. But I am not aware of any good solution to the problem. A large part of the problem is the needless use of cookies, it seems that many blog servers use cookies even […] August 18th, 2009 | Tags: Most Popular, Selinux | Category: Security | 2 comments - (Comments are closed) In Australia we are currently in the middle of a long drawn out saga about Internet censorship [1]. In summary we have fundamentalist Christians wanting to prevent anyone from accessing X rated material, many clueless people wanting to “protect the children“, and most members of parliament totally ignoring the advice that is offered by everyone […] August 16th, 2009 | Tags: Most Popular | Category: Politics | Comments are closed Update: I am now convinced that the Aquatic Ape theory is wrong [0]. So much of this post is irrelevant. But I still believe that we should be uplifting animals. Elaine Morgan gave an interesting TED talk about human evolution and the theory that our ancestors lived in the water [1]. The aquatic ape theory […] I’ve previously written some suggestions for people choosing a portable computer [1]. Basically it’s about how to start by choosing the correct type of portable computer – if you don’t know whether you want a NetBook or a Laptop then you are really lost. Now there are a range of NetBook type devices which vary […] August 8th, 2009 | Tags: Most Popular | Category: Misc Computer | 4 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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