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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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 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[...]
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[...]
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].[...]
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[...]