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James Purser writes about the current plans for Internet filtering in Australia and concentrates on the technical issues (whether it will degrade the ISP service) and the issue of who’s moral standards should be enforced for the entire country. But the fact is that children have never had any problem accessing porn. When I was […] August 12th, 2007 | Tags: Best Posts, Most Popular | Category: Politics | 35 comments - (Comments are closed) news.com.au reports that MS has hired former Miss Australia Erin McNaught to sex up the computer industry’s geeky image and describes her as a “University Drop-Out” (later in the article it’s revealed that she deferred her course so she might end up completing it). Hiring her is supposed to demonstrate that IT careers have “gone […] What do you think is the most important single-sentence of advice that you can offer to someone who wants to contribute to the free software community? I intentionally didn’t mention what area or type of advice or what “contribute” means, interpret it how you wish and give multiple answers for different interpretations if that seems […] August 8th, 2007 | Tags: Best Posts, free software, Most Popular | Category: | 10 comments - (Comments are closed) I’ve just reviewed my web stats from last month. Here are what appear to be the most popular posts: Committing Data to Disk – about how RPM and DPKG don’t use fsync() the way I believe that they should. Surprisingly popular (more than twice as popular as #2), maybe the developers of both RPM forks […] A response to a post I wrote about things to do for the environment suggested that there would be a health risk to lowering the temperature of a home hot-water system to save power. I have just been reading about so-called tankless hot-water systems. The concept is that instead of keeping a tank of water […] July 31st, 2007 | Tags: Environment, Most Popular | Category: Uncategorized | 16 comments - (Comments are closed) Chris Samuel blogs about a plan to censor porn from the Internet in Australia. According to the ZDNet article the Fundamentalist Christian party Family First wants a national porn filter to protect children. However there is strong evidence to suggest that the incidence of rape decreases as the availability of pornography increases. Access to porn […] July 30th, 2007 | Tags: Best Posts, Most Popular | Category: Politics | 16 comments - (Comments are closed) Last night I had a Visual Migraine that was significantly worse than the previous ones. It started in the usual manner (flickering lights in my central vision and an inability to read text on a computer screen in a font that is normally quite readable) but then developed a new feature. Grey clouds appeared in […] Here’s a guide to supporting Xen servers for people who are not Linux experts. If your job means that you have root access to a Xen server that someone else installed for the purpose of fixing problems when they are not available then this will help you solve some common problems. Xen is a virtualization […] July 27th, 2007 | Tags: Best Posts, Most Popular | Category: Virtualisation | 5 comments - (Comments are closed) On Thursday I bought a $99 (discounted from $199) MP4 player from Aldi (a German supermarket chain that has recently opened up here). The player is a Tevion model M6. By a long way it’s the cheapest and nastiest piece of consumer electronics that I have ever owned. It has very flimsy construction (feels like […] Mary Gardiner has written a lazyweb post asking about how to solve the problem of laptops being more expensive in Australia than in some other countries. She didn’t post contact details or enable comments on her blog, but that’s OK as this information may be useful to other people. Some years ago I was living […] July 9th, 2007 | Tags: Most Popular | Category: | 7 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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