The Curious Engineer

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2006–2007

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2007 353

December 2007

  1. Twilight of the Books?
  2. Contract Pay Rates
  3. A Better Design for Child Seats
  4. Apprentice Computer Journalist Wanted
  5. Bad Project Management
  6. The Net – Good for Literature
  7. Christmas and New Year
  8. Debian Developers Meetings
  9. Aisa
  10. Blogroll – Bad Social Networking
  11. Planet Debian Piracy
  12. The Meaning of Godwin’s Law
  13. New Bonnie++ Releases

November 2007

  1. Vista ReadyBoostReady – Good for Linux?
  2. Apprentices
  3. Creepy Social Networking
  4. Links November 2007
  5. Pentium-3 vs Pentium-4
  6. Air Filtering for Servers
  7. Election 2007
  8. Drugs and an Election
  9. Internet and an Election
  10. BoingBoing and Licenses
  11. RAID and Bus Bandwidth
  12. Perfect Code vs Quite Good Code
  13. Conditions of Sending Email
  14. WTF – Let’s write all the code twice
  15. Everyone Should Blog
  16. Better Social Networking
  17. The Price of Food
  18. SE Linux in other Distributions
  19. Safe Banking by SMS?
  20. Software vs Hardware RAID
  21. More About Living in Hotels
  22. Restorecon Equivalent for Unix Permissions
  23. SecureCon Lecture
  24. SecureCon Tutorial
  25. Xen for Training
  26. Squid and SE Linux
  27. Increasing Efficiency through Less Work
  28. Load Average

October 2007

  1. Halloween
  2. SecureCon 2007
  3. New SE Linux Play Machine Online
  4. Xen and Security
  5. Senator Online
  6. A Traditional Approach to an IT Career
  7. 0wned a DVD Player
  8. Blog Ethics
  9. Lentil as Anything
  10. WordPress and Thumbnails
  11. Open Hardware – What Would Change
  12. Finishing a Presentation too soon
  13. Banking with an Infected Computer
  14. My SE Linux Etch Repository
  15. Reach Out – Only to People with New Computers
  16. Lazyweb Posts
  17. Insider Threats and Small Storage Devices
  18. War is Bad for the Environment
  19. Introverts
  20. Blog Copyright Infringement
  21. AUUG 2007
  22. Cheap Laptops for Children
  23. Getting People into IT
  24. Dreamhost and the DMCA
  25. Who Can Contribute to Free Software
  26. Execmem and SE Linux
  27. Lintian and Executable Stacks
  28. How SE Linux Prevents Local Root Exploits
  29. A Long Laptop Lifetime
  30. I Am #40 in Don Marti’s List
  31. Can SE Linux Stop a Linux Storm
  32. Executable Stack and Shared Objects
  33. Reducing Automated Attacks
  34. Public Security Cameras
  35. Ideas for a Home University
  36. Xen Memory Use and Zope
  37. LUG Meetings etc
  38. live.com – Useless Search

September 2007

  1. Blogging and Documents
  2. Upgraded to WordPress 2.3
  3. Swap Space
  4. Eating Corpses
  5. Is the Server Dead?
  6. Census
  7. Blogger is Not for Serious Blogging
  8. DMCA and Sci-Fi
  9. Context of /dev/xvc0
  10. Multiple DNS Names
  11. Custom Search for Planet Linux Australia
  12. Google Custom Search Engine
  13. Categories for Best and Most Popular Posts
  14. The Surge and War for Oil
  15. Web-Scabs
  16. iRiver H320 and Liquid
  17. More About Google Earth
  18. Multiple Pointers in X
  19. Some Good and Bad Ideas for Recruiting
  20. Google Earth – Almost a Great Program
  21. Gear Acquisition Syndrome
  22. Comparing Debian and Fedora
  23. ISP Password Change by Untrusted People
  24. Duplicating a Xen DomU
  25. Citing References in Blog Posts
  26. Dead Links
  27. George Monbiot’s Solution to Emissions Trading
  28. Photography and Censorship at APEC
  29. Optus Password changeme
  30. Out Of Memory Errors and Apache
  31. A New Spam Trick
  32. Hot-swap Storage

August 2007

  1. Carbon Geo-Sequestration
  2. Interesting Ideas from George Monbiot
  3. Is SE Linux only for Linux?
  4. Identifying the Distribution of a Linux System
  5. The Silly BMW 745h
  6. A Strange Attempt to Trick Google
  7. Hydrogen Powered Cars Will Never Work
  8. Writing a CV for a Contract Position
  9. Never IRC as Root
  10. Solar Hot Water – Not Expensive
  11. Does Having Fewer Rules Inspire Hard Work?
  12. Designing Computers for Small Business
  13. Base Load Solar Power
  14. Water Prices and Scarcity
  15. Cheney Flip-Flopped on Iraq
  16. The Start of My Computer Career
  17. LED Headlights in Audi Sports Car
  18. SE Linux vs chroot
  19. Music Videos
  20. When to Use SE Linux
  21. Suggestions and Thanks
  22. Feedburner Item Link Clicks
  23. Controlling a STONITH and Upgrading a Cluster
  24. Colorado Software Summit 2007
  25. A Great Advertising Web Site
  26. Arp
  27. IT Recruiting Agencies – Advice for Contract Workers
  28. Ethernet Bonding and a Xen Bridge
  29. Ethernet Bonding on Debian Etch
  30. Porn For Children
  31. Is Hand-writing Necessary?
  32. CAPTCHAs that don’t work
  33. Microsoft Hires University Drop-Out for Recruiting Campaign
  34. The Principles of Stupidity
  35. Plans for Future Posts
  36. Tactical Voting
  37. Two Questions for All Serious Free Software Contributors
  38. Blog Memes
  39. Translation
  40. Housing Prices
  41. Real Servers vs White-Box
  42. Living in Hotels
  43. Small PC for Creating Word Files
  44. Debian Lunch Meeting in Melbourne and BSP
  45. Getting Work in Another Country
  46. Popular Posts
  47. Starting a Heartbeat Resource Without Heartbeat
  48. Xen Saves
  49. Advogato and Hateful/Divisive Posts
  50. ECC RAM in a Cheap Machine

July 2007

  1. Germany Leads the World in Solar Power
  2. Praising Children vs Praising Programmers
  3. Hot Water
  4. Porn vs Rape
  5. Blogs and Conversation (or Lack Therof)
  6. A Worse Visual Migraine
  7. Bonnie++ and Postal shirts
  8. Outsourcing
  9. Red Hat virt-install and Partitions
  10. Childhood
  11. A Support Guide for Xen
  12. Train Routing
  13. Blogging Frequency
  14. If You Don’t Know How to Fix It, Please Stop Breaking It
  15. An Ideal Linux Install Process for Xen
  16. Xen and Bridging
  17. The Australian Government is a Terrorist Organisation
  18. Exit Strategies for Iraq
  19. Modules and NFS for Xen
  20. Troll Zapping
  21. Column Width in Blogs
  22. Ron Paul
  23. unaligned access on IA64
  24. HP Sponsors Computer Recycling
  25. Bizarre “No space left on device” error from Xen
  26. The ABC and the Supposed Liberal Bias
  27. Religion and Cars
  28. IEA predicts global oil crisis
  29. Correspondent Inference Theory and the US
  30. Testing STONITH
  31. A Free-Software Only Laptop
  32. License Fees for Music in Clubs
  33. Documentaries about Gifted Children
  34. Desktop Machines and ECC RAM
  35. Tevion MP4 Player Model M6 – a Review
  36. Memory Errors and Memtest86+
  37. Questions During Lectures
  38. Planet Linux Jobs Victoria
  39. Why Can’t Bush be as Honourable as Nixon?
  40. Buying a Laptop from Another Country
  41. Google is Good for the Environment
  42. Terrorism Foolishness
  43. Robots vs Sheep
  44. Fragmenting Information about Jobs
  45. The War Was About Oil!
  46. CPU time use from WordPress Javascript
  47. Linux Job Ads
  48. New Storage Developments
  49. Committing Data to Disk

June 2007

  1. Strange SATA Disk Performance
  2. Advertising Free Software Projects
  3. Xen and Heartbeat
  4. Who Benefits when Cheap Electricity is used?
  5. Backup for Wind Power
  6. Pointers in Bash Shell Scripts
  7. A Lack of Understanding of Nuclear Issues
  8. Rackspace RHEL4 updates
  9. Nixforce unauthorised use
  10. Easy Search Engine Optimisation in WordPress
  11. Prius vs small non-hybrid car
  12. submissions for LCA and other conferences
  13. costs of driving to work
  14. putting HTML codes and other special characters into a blog entry
  15. configuring a Heartbeat service
  16. Heartbeat service scripts

May 2007

  1. Another Heartbeat 2.0 STONITH example configuration
  2. Heartbeat version 2.0 CIB STONITH example configuration
  3. paypal – are they trustworthy now?
  4. New Blogs
  5. SE Linux shirts for sale!
  6. SE Linux in Debian
  7. PC prices drop again!
  8. I must be famous ;)
  9. Lord of the Flies
  10. Planet feed polling frequency
  11. priorities for heartbeat services
  12. mobile phone etiquette
  13. Tom’s Hardware falls victim to a trojan
  14. career risks
  15. terrorist actions I want banned
  16. Five ways SE Linux may surprise you
  17. permalinks in wordpress, Apache redirection, and other blog stuff
  18. lemonup.com – pirates
  19. school rating
  20. DMCA etc
  21. LUG talks today
  22. more about Heartbeat

April 2007

  1. comment spam
  2. new blog
  3. more on presentations
  4. paper about ZCAV
  5. moving this blog
  6. MySQL security in Debian
  7. booting from USB for security
  8. free laptop
  9. first look at CentOS 5 Xen
  10. lemonup and blog license
  11. the Right to Fork
  12. praying for rain
  13. a Heartbeat developer comments on my blog post
  14. 2 node vs 3+ node clusters
  15. failure probability and clusters
  16. Debian/Etch release party in Melbourne – Australia
  17. Spooks and GConf
  18. presentations about SE Linux
  19. Xen and SE Linux – EWeek review of RHEL5
  20. what is a BOF?
  21. A Strange Interpretation of the US Constitution About Copyright
  22. BSD vs GPL licences
  23. New Debian release and new DPL
  24. blogger sucks!
  25. heartbeat – what defines a cluster?
  26. SE Linux – not too difficult for new users
  27. mini-cyclone
  28. wikisky
  29. Linux Tour Bus
  30. The Inevitability of Failure
  31. Mac vs PC
  32. reviewing blog comments and links
  33. cheap big TFT monitor
  34. Geek Social Fallacies
  35. live.com – malware?
  36. tour of the Gigabyte motherboard factory
  37. buy free software developers dinner
  38. right-side visual migraine

March 2007

  1. mac vs PC vs Linux
  2. hybrid Porsche
  3. Trusted Solaris vs SE Linux
  4. questions regarding SE Linux
  5. death threats against Kathy Sierra
  6. Xen and eth device renaming
  7. Save Babe
  8. google-bank
  9. images for a web site
  10. power saving
  11. thinkpad back from repair
  12. Spanish wind power
  13. mixing CPUs
  14. Debian and Google Summer (Winter) Of Code
  15. Blug
  16. fluorescent lights and why it’s worth saving resources
  17. are Thinkpads meant to run 24*7?
  18. worse than fossil fuel?
  19. SE Linux on /.
  20. things to do for the environment
  21. getting big changes in Debian
  22. old drivers
  23. creating a new SE Linux policy module
  24. nerve action – sound vs electricity
  25. another visual migraine
  26. SFF disks
  27. features of BMW 5 and 7 series
  28. reading email on a tram
  29. presentations and background color
  30. last beard post
  31. vaccinations
  32. the word “beamer”
  33. meeting people at Linux conferences
  34. spare tires
  35. Mercedes S class and car safety

February 2007

  1. Slang
  2. a good dog for uplifting
  3. xen sucks
  4. John Howard is bizarre
  5. Names
  6. execmod
  7. xen and yoyo
  8. phone spam
  9. classic security mistake

January 2007

  1. ssh tunneling of email
  2. how to run dynamic ssh tunnels
  3. presentation laptops
  4. university degrees
  5. licence for lecture notes
  6. new release of postal
  7. political compass
  8. lifetime failures (LF)
  9. Some ideas for running a conference
  10. LCA talk
  11. dbus error
  12. top 10 girl geeks
  13. ps and security
  14. some random Linux tips
  15. cooling
  16. Xephyr
  17. document storage
  18. core files
  19. monitors for developers
  20. Windows Vista
  21. Xen shared storage
  22. multiple ethernet devices in Xen
  23. installing Xen domU on Debian Etch

2006 119

December 2006

  1. free software liason?
  2. memes that damage debian
  3. more about vista security
  4. email disclaimers
  5. source dump blog
  6. music for children
  7. google reader
  8. planet – resource use
  9. DOSing Windows Vista
  10. Mythtv
  11. installing Debian Etch
  12. another visual migraine
  13. encryption speed – Debian vs Fedora
  14. hybrid Lexus is best luxury car
  15. interesting things
  16. AMD developer Center
  17. comment-less blogs
  18. what defines a well operating planet?
  19. quantum evolution
  20. some questions about disk encryption
  21. IDE hard drives
  22. The Squirrel and the Grasshopper
  23. Debian SE Linux policy bug
  24. SE Linux on Debian in 5 minutes
  25. some advice for job seekers
  26. Osdc
  27. Xen

November 2006

  1. Hans Reiser
  2. when you can’t get along with other developers
  3. Supporting an Election Campaign
  4. Linux support by politicians
  5. nuclear power in Australia
  6. biometrics and passwords
  7. economics of a computer store (why they don’t stock what you want)
  8. more about securing an office
  9. flash for main storage
  10. a good security design for an office
  11. the death penalty
  12. Sell a Band

October 2006

  1. religious requirements for free software development
  2. Xen and serial ports
  3. god on my side
  4. planets and day 19 of the beard
  5. peak oil
  6. blogging and self-promotion
  7. economics of nuclear power
  8. new hybrid Camry
  9. blogs and bug tracking
  10. more about MX records
  11. MX vs A record
  12. day 8 of the beard
  13. electric cars
  14. more about Fedora
  15. debate via wiki
  16. yet another beard pic
  17. The benefits of SE Linux
  18. about leaving
  19. day 4 of the beard and the Crypto museum
  20. day 3 of beard, and the gimp
  21. Another beard pic
  22. review of Australian car web sites
  23. open letter to Toyota
  24. started growing a beard
  25. working all night
  26. Virgin – no free water and renewable energy
  27. dunc-tank and motivation
  28. Lack of privacy in Amcal
  29. Ruxcon and SLUG

September 2006

  1. SAK, ctrl-alt-del, and Linux keyboard mapping
  2. tcpdump and ps
  3. Ethernet bonding
  4. Quotes
  5. RSS feed size and Planet
  6. Supersize Me
  7. more on vision
  8. Vision
  9. War On Terror – the game
  10. siteminder – what you expect from CA
  11. why I joined the Australian Greens
  12. the next feature for a spy movie
  13. sendmail – the MTA for insecure systems
  14. mailing list culture
  15. IT companies and toxic waste
  16. blogging software
  17. C – the suit and tie of programming
  18. what’s a good blog server for serious blogging?
  19. SE Linux is like a moat filled with sharks with laser attached head gear
  20. communism and ticket “scalping”
  21. Advice for speakers
  22. more on clean energy
  23. Rip It Off unless you use windows?
  24. Uplift
  25. RAID etc
  26. Debian SE Linux
  27. planet debian, spam, and SE Linux
  28. planet debian
  29. root-kits on robots
  30. clean energy

August 2006

  1. first significant project goes live
  2. SRS development
  3. which blog and syndication server to use?
  4. combining two domains in SE Linux
  5. Linux on the Desktop
  6. common mistakes in presentations
  7. more security foolishness
  8. 2006 Open Source Symposium
  9. fair trade is the Linux way
  10. Outsourcing – Bad for Corporations but Good for the World
  11. terrorist “weakest link”
  12. car-pooling
  13. run an insecure system and get raped
  14. laptop security on planes
  15. more on anti-spam
  16. blocking spam
  17. a newbie question about SE Linux and anti-spam measures
  18. invasive vs inconvenient security
  19. the waste of closed lists
  20. big and cheap USB flash devices
  21. wasted votes

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