Currently there is a debate about censoring the Internet in Australia. Although debate might not be the correct word for a dispute where one party provides no facts and refuses to talk to any experts (Senator Conroy persistently refuses all requests to talk to anyone who knows anything about the technology or to have his […]
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November 18th, 2008 | Tags: Most Popular | Category: Liberty, Politics | One comment - (Comments are closed) Australia has slow Internet access when compared to other first-world countries. The costs of hosting servers are larger and the cost of residential access is greater with smaller limits. I read news reports with people in other countries complaining about having their home net connection restricted after they transfer 300G in one month, I have […] November 17th, 2008 | Tags: Most Popular | Category: Networking | 5 comments - (Comments are closed) A common idea among the less educated people who call themselves “conservative” seems to be that they should oppose tax cuts for themselves and support tax cuts for the rich because they might become rich and they want to prepare for that possibility. The US census data [1] shows that less than 1% of males […] I have previously written about my work packaging the tools to manage Amazon EC2 [1]. First you need to login and create a certificate (you can upload your own certificate – but this is probably only beneficial if you have two EC2 accounts and want to use the same certificate for both). Download the X509 […] November 4th, 2008 | Tags: Best Posts, Most Popular | Category: Virtualisation | Comments are closed I just read an interesting paper titled An Analysis of Data Corruption in the Storage Stack [1]. It contains an analysis of the data from 1,530,000 disks running at NetApp customer sites. The amount of corruption is worrying, as is the amount of effort that is needed to detect them. NetApp devices have regular “RAID […] October 14th, 2008 | Tags: Best Posts, Most Popular | Category: Misc Computer | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) I have previously written about how I refused an offer of a free iPhone [1] (largely due to it’s closed architecture). The first Google Android phone has just been announced, the TechCrunch review is interesting – while the built-in keyboard is a nice feature the main thing that stands out is the open platform [2]. […] September 25th, 2008 | Tags: Most Popular | Category: Liberty, Prediction | 5 comments - (Comments are closed) The most commonly installed software for aggregating RSS feeds seems to be Planet and Venus (two forks of the same code base). The operation is that a cron job runs the Python program which syndicates a list of RSS feeds and generates a static web page. Of course the problems start if you have many […] In a comment on my Not All Opinions Are Equal [1] post AlphaG said “Anonymous comments = free software, no intrinsic value as you got it for nothing”. After considering the matter I came to the conclusion that almost all software has no intrinsic value (unless you count not being sued for copyright infringement as […] September 16th, 2008 | Tags: Best Posts, Most Popular | Category: Liberty | 9 comments - (Comments are closed) Google have announced a new web browser – Chrome [1]. It is not available for download yet, currently there is only a comic book explaining how it will work [2]. The comic is of very high quality and will help in teaching novices about how computers work. I think it would be good if we […] For some time there have been two mainstream Mandatory Access Control (MAC) [1] systems for Linux. SE Linux [2] and AppArmor [3]. In late 2007 Novell laid off almost all the developers of AppArmor [4] with the aim of having the community do all the coding. Crispin Cowan (the founder and leader of the AppArmor […] |
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