A common misconception is that only programmers can contribute to free software. The first significant reference I recall to this was in a presentation by Pia Waugh [1] where she mentioned that she felt that the way words such as “coder” and “hacker” are used in the community as synonyms for “contributor” are denigrating to […]
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October 11th, 2007 | Tags: Best Posts, free software, Most Popular | Category: Career | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) In a comment on my previous post about SE Linux and worms/trojans [1] a user enquired about which methods of gaining local root are prevented by SE Linux. A local exploit is one that can not be run remotely. An attack via TCP or UDP is generally considered a remote exploit – even though in […] October 10th, 2007 | Tags: Best Posts, Most Popular, Selinux | Category: Security | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Paul Russell writes about his 3-yearly laptop replacement at IBM [1]. It probably makes some sense to replace laptops periodically for a large company, but if you are buying for personal use then it makes sense to try and get a longer life out of an expensive machine. I think that aiming for 6 years […] October 9th, 2007 | Tags: Best Posts, Most Popular | Category: Uncategorized | 14 comments - (Comments are closed) Bruce Schneier has just written about the Storm Worm [1] which has apparently been quietly 0wning some Windows machines for most of this year (see the Wikipedia page for more information [2]). I have just been asked whether SE Linux would stop such a worm from the Linux environment. SE Linux does prevent many possible […] October 8th, 2007 | Tags: Best Posts, Most Popular, Selinux | Category: Security | 8 comments - (Comments are closed) When running SE Linux you will notice that most applications are not permitted to run with an executable stack. One example of this is libsmpeg0 which is used by the game Freeciv [1]. When you attempt to run the Freeciv client program on a Debian/Etch system with a default SE Linux configuration (as described in […] October 7th, 2007 | Tags: Best Posts, Most Popular, Selinux | Category: Security | 4 comments - (Comments are closed) I read the logs from my servers. The amount of time I spend reading log summaries is determined by how important the server is. On the machines that are most important to me I carefully read log summaries and periodically scan the logs for anything that looks unusual. The amount of time taken is obviously […] There is ongoing debate about the issue of security cameras, how many should there be, where should they be located, and who should be able to access the data. I spent about a year living in London which probably has more security cameras and a greater ratio of cameras to people than any other city. […] October 5th, 2007 | Tags: camera, Most Popular | Category: Politics, Terrorism | 4 comments - (Comments are closed) There seems to be a recent trend towards home-schooling. The failures of the default school system in most countries are quite apparent and the violence alone is enough of a reason to keep children away from high-schools, even without the education (or lack therof). I have previously written about University degrees and whether they are […] October 4th, 2007 | Tags: Best Posts, Most Popular | Category: School | 10 comments - (Comments are closed) I am currently considering what to do regarding a Zope server that I have converted to Xen. To best manage the servers I want to split the Zope instances into different DomU’s based on organisational boundaries. One reason for doing this is so that each sys-admin will only be granted access to the Zope instance […] October 3rd, 2007 | Tags: Most Popular | Category: Virtualisation | 5 comments - (Comments are closed) It seems that the majority of blog traffic (at least in blogs I read) is time-based. It is personal-diary entry posts, references to current events, predictions about future events, bug reports, and other things that either become obsolete or for which it’s important to know the date. For such posts it makes sense to have […] |
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