2008–2026
1,237 posts
2026 56
October 2026
- More Furilabs FLX1s
- Fuel Should be More Expensive
- Radxa Rock 5A RK3588S
- CEO Impersonation Fraud
- Banks and Phones
- Cixin Liu is a Bad Person
- Don’t Anthromorphise LLMs
- en-html.org is a Scam Site
- A Power Case for a FOSS Phone
- Kdeconnect DBUS
September 2026
August 2026
- Links August 2026
- Hacked by Chinafans
- AMD Video Drivers, LLMs, and Debian Kernels
- TV Control etc
- Monitors for Work
- Packet Edit Meme and Debian SE Linux
July 2026
- Links July 2026
- Systemd Linger
- Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen6 Again
- ECC and DDR5
- libproc-processtable-perl in Debian
June 2026
- Links June 2026
- Dirty Clone and SE Linux
- Plaud
- Some GPU Stuff
- HP Z4 G4
- Font Sizes
- CPUs and Debian Package Building
May 2026
- Links May 2026
- Zswap
- Debian SE Linux and PinTheft
- Debian SE Linux and ssh-keysign-pwn
- Packaging Amazfish for Debian
- Bad Criticism of LLMs (not AI)
- Systemd, Mobile Linux, and Containers
- Dirty Frag on Debian and SE Linux
- Tower Servers and Resizable BAR
- Copy Fail on Debian and SE Linux
April 2026
- Links April 2026
- More About Ebook Readers in Debian
- Home Battery
- Furilabs FLX1s Finally Working
- HP Z640 and E5-2696 v4
March 2026
- Ebook Readers in Debian
- Communication and Hostile AIs
- The Death of Twitter
- The Difference Between Email and Instant Messaging
- Links March 2026
February 2026
January 2026
2025 47
December 2025
November 2025
October 2025
September 2025
August 2025
- Links August 2025
- ZRAM and VMs
- Dell T320 H310 RAID and IT Mode
- Colmi P80 SmartWatch First Look
- Server CPU Sockets
July 2025
- Links July 2025
- Annoying Wrongness on TV
- Bad Product Comparisons and EVs
- Function Keys
- The Fuss About “AI”
June 2025
May 2025
- Links May 2025
- Service Setup Difficulties
- Machine Learning Security
- Leaf ZE1
- Digital Sovereignty and Email
- DDR4 RAM Size
- Silly Job Titles
April 2025
- Links April 2025
- Last Post About the Yoga Gen3
- What Desktop PCs Need
- Storage Trends 2025
- HP z840
- More About the HP ML110 Gen9 and z640
March 2025
February 2025
January 2025
2024 53
December 2024
November 2024
- Links November 2024
- Solving Spam and Phishing for Corporations
- Modern Sleep
- More About the Yoga Gen3
- Moving Between Devices
- What is a Workstation?
October 2024
September 2024
August 2024
July 2024
- Links July 2024
- More About Kogan 5120*2160 Monitor
- Blog Comments
- SE Linux Policy for Dell Management
- Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Review
- Computer Adavances in the Last Decade
- VoLTE in Australia
- Links June 2024
June 2024
May 2024
April 2024
- Links April 2024
- USB PSUs
- Galaxy Note 9 Droidian
- Kitty and Mpv
- Humane AI Pin
- Convergence vs Transference
- Source Code With Emoji
- Ubuntu 24.04 and Bubblewrap
- Software Needed for Work
- ML Training License
March 2024
February 2024
January 2024
2023 46
December 2023
November 2023
October 2023
- Links October 2023
- Hello Kitty
- Bluetooth Versions and PineTime
- Brother MFC-J4440DW Printer
- More About the PineTime
- The PineTime
- PinePhone Status
September 2023
August 2023
July 2023
June 2023
- Links June 2023
- Running a ChatGPT Type System
- Cheap Peripherals for Work
- BOINC and Idle Users
- Do Not Use …
- PinePhonePro First Impression
- Dell 32″ 4K Monitor and DisplayPort Switch
- Do Desktop Computers Make Sense?
May 2023
April 2023
- Links April 2023
- Write a blog post in the style of Russell Coker
- BTRFS Rebuild Time
- Storage Trends 2023
March 2023
February 2023
- Links February 2023
- New 18 Core CPU and NVMe
- Intel vs AMD
- T320 iDRAC Failure and new HP Z640
- Wayland in Bookworm
January 2023
2022 40
December 2022
November 2022
September 2022
August 2022
July 2022
June 2022
May 2022
April 2022
March 2022
- AMT/MEBX on Debian
- Links March 2022
- Feedburner Seems to be Dying
- Hangouts Replacement
- Reading Glasses
- Wayland
- More About the Librem 5
- Librem 5 First Impression
- SAGE (ITPA) Spam
February 2022
January 2022
2021 45
December 2021
November 2021
- Links November 2021
- Your Device Has Been Improved
- Installing NextCloud
- USB Microphones
- Talking to Criminals
October 2021
September 2021
August 2021
July 2021
June 2021
- Links June 2021
- Dell PowerEdge T320 and Linux
- Netflix and IPv6
- Internode NBN with Arris CM8200 on Debian
May 2021
- Some Ideas About Storage Reliability
- Wifi Performance on Linux
- USB Cables and Cameras
- HP ML110 Gen9
- Minikube and Debian
- Echo Chambers vs Epistemic Bubbles
- More EVM
- DNS, Lots of IPs, and Postal
April 2021
- Links April 2021
- Scanning with a MFC-9120CN on Bullseye
- HP ML350P Gen8
- IMA/EVM Certificates
- Basics of Linux Kernel Debugging
- Yama
- Riverdale
- Storage Trends 2021
- Censoring Images
February 2021
January 2021
2020 46
December 2020
- MPV vs Mplayer
- SMART and SSDs
- Testing VDPAU in Debian
- Thinkpad Storage Problem
- Phone Plan Comparison 2020
- Electromagnetic Space Launch
- Links December 2020
- ZFS 2.0.0 Released
- KDE Icons Disappearing in Debian/Unstable
November 2020
October 2020
September 2020
- Bandwidth for Video Conferencing
- Qemu (KVM) and 9P (Virtfs) Mounts
- Links September 2020
- Burning Lithium Ion Batteries
- Dell BIOS Updates
- More About the PowerEdge R710
- Setting Up a Dell R710 Server with DRAC6
- BBB vs Jitsi
August 2020
July 2020
- Links July 2020
- Windows 10 on Debian under KVM
- Debian PPC64EL Emulation
- Debian S390X Emulation
- Desklab Portable USB-C Monitor
- Isolating PHP Web Sites
June 2020
- Links June 2020
- How Will the Pandemic Change Things?
- Squirrelmail vs Roundcube
- Storage Trends
- Comparing Compression
May 2020
March 2020
February 2020
- Links February 2020
- DisplayPort and 4K
- Self Assessment
- Deleted Mapped Files
- Social Media Sharing on Blogs
- Load Average Monitoring
January 2020
2019 6
December 2019
November 2019
June 2019
January 2019
2018 14
September 2018
- Words Have Meanings
- Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen 6
- Fail2ban
- Google and Certbot (Letsencrypt)
- Suggestions for Trump Supporters
July 2018
June 2018
March 2018
February 2018
January 2018
2017 15
December 2017
November 2017
October 2017
September 2017
August 2017
July 2017
April 2017
February 2017
2016 22
December 2016
November 2016
October 2016
August 2016
July 2016
June 2016
May 2016
February 2016
January 2016
2015 15
October 2015
September 2015
August 2015
June 2015
April 2015
January 2015
2014 60
December 2014
October 2014
September 2014
August 2014
- Links August 2014
- Men Commenting on Women’s Issues
- Being Obviously Wrong About Autism
- Booting GPT
- More BTRFS Fun
July 2014
- Links July 2014
- BTRFS Status July 2014
- Android Screen Saving
- Happiness and Lecture Questions
- Public Lectures About FOSS
- Improving Computer Reliability
- A Linux Conference as a Ritual
- Taxing Inferior Products
- Desktop Publishing is Wrong
- Blog Comments
June 2014
- Links June 2014
- Fixing Strange Directory Write Access
- Expectations of Skill and Time
- Phone Car Accessories
- Google Hardware Support
- Android Device Service Life
May 2014
- Links May 2014
- Why I Use BTRFS
- My First Ingress Anomaly
- Mobile Phones and Cognitive Costs
- BTRFS vs LVM
- Source Escrow for Proprietary Software
April 2014
- Links April 2014
- Autism and the Treatment of Women Again
- Swap Breaking SSD
- BTRFS Status April 2014
- Sociological Images 2014
- Sociological Images 2012
- Swap Space and SSD
- Phone Based Lectures
- Replacement Credit Cards and Bank Failings
- Finding Corrupt Files that cause a Kernel Error
- Comparing Telcos Again
March 2014
- Links March 2014
- The Aspie Accent
- Nexus5 Armourdillo Hybrid Case
- Aldi Deserves an Award for Misleading Email
- BTRFS Status March 2014
- Less Work
- Depression
February 2014
- Links February 2014
- Electric Car Charging in Melbourne
- Fingerprints and Authentication
- Clothing and Phone Cameras
January 2014
2013 59
December 2013
- Sound Device Order with ALSA
- Political Advocacy in Clubs
- The Nexus 5
- Links December 2013
- Dell PowerEdge T110
- A Basic Income for Australia
- A Better University
- Preferring Not To
November 2013
- Links November 2013
- Failures of Intelligence Agencies
- Bad Advertising of Protoplast
- Aldi Changes, Cheap Telcos, and Estimating Costs
October 2013
September 2013
- Links September 2013
- Hive Bluetooth Stereo Speakers
- Qi Phone Charging
- Advice for Web Editing
- Is Portslave Still Useful?
- The 2013 Federal Election
- Ownership of a Club
August 2013
- Links August 2013
- Scratching a Galaxy S
- The End of Kogan Mobile
- Google web sites and Chromium CPU Use
- Nexus 4 Ringke Fusion Case
- Religious Conversion
July 2013
June 2013
May 2013
- Nexus 4
- Links May 2013
- SCSI Failures
- Noise from Shaving
- No Backups WTF
- Advice on Buying a PC
- Voltage Inside a Car
- Effective Conference Calls
- Geographic Sorting – Lessons to Learn from Ingress
March 2013
February 2013
- Serious Begging
- iPhone vs Android
- Conversion of Video Files
- Phone/Tablet Sizes
- Links February 2013
- Speaking Stacks
January 2013
2012 90
December 2012
- Modern Swap Use
- Samsung Galaxy Camera – a Quick Review
- SIM Annoyances
- Finding an ATM Skimmer
- Everyone Needs a Tablet
- Samsung Galaxy S3 First Review with Power Case
- Using BTRFS
- Globalisation and Phone Calls
- Dependencies in Online Ordering
- Links December 2012
- Returning the Aldi Tablet
- Ingress
- Cheap Android Tablet from Aldi
- Recruiting at a LUG Meeting
November 2012
October 2012
- Links October 2012
- Google mod_pagespeed
- Creating WordPress Packages
- Cheap Bulk Storage
- Asperger Syndrome – Disability vs “Over Pathologising”
September 2012
- Links September 2012
- Server Use Per Person
- Australian Mobile Phone Costs
- Changing Phone Prices in Australia
- Servers in the Office
- Back to the Xperia X10
August 2012
- Links August 2012
- Woolworths Maths Fail
- SSD for a Workstation
- Mirror Displays
- Hard Drives for Backup
- Love of Technology at First Sight
- Sam Harris on Lying
- Hetzner now Offers SSD
July 2012
- Cheap SATA Disks in a Dell PowerEdge T410
- ZFS on Debian/Wheezy
- The Retina Display
- Links July 2012
- Some Proprietary Platform Issues
- Breaking SATA Connectors
- Postfwd and Local Only Email
June 2012
- Links June 2012
- Targeted Advertising
- New SE Linux Policy for Wheezy
- SASL Authentication and Debian/Wheezy
- Debian SE Linux Status June 2012
- New Version of Memlockd
- The Financial Value of a University Degree
- Take Off that Stupid Helmet
May 2012
- Links May 2012
- Another USB Flash Failure
- What I REALLY Want from the NBN
- A Quick Review of the Mac Mini with OS/X Lion compared to Linux
- Liberty and Mobile Phones
- Acoustiblok/Thermablok
April 2012
- The Royal Caribbean Official Android app
- Nando’s Voucher Interpretation
- BTRFS and ZFS as Layering Violations
- Links April 2012
- Neighborhood Watch
- Autism as an Excuse
- The Most Important things for running a Reliable Internet Service
- ZFS vs BTRFS on Cheap Dell Servers
- Guest/Link Post Spam
- Flash Storage Update
March 2012
- The Security Benefits of Automation
- Cheap NAS Devices Suck
- Links March 2012
- An Introduction to Android
- Long Term Adverts
- Airtasker – Outsourcing Small Jobs
- USB Flash Storage
- SE Linux Status in Debian 2012-03
- LUV Hardware Library
February 2012
- Links February 2012
- Cooling a Thinkpad
- Magic entries for BTRFS and Software RAID
- Starting with BTRFS
- More DRBD Performance tests
- 5 Principles of Backup Software
- Reliability of RAID
- A Computer Conference on a Cruise Ship
January 2012
2011 77
December 2011
- Links December 2011
- Sociological Images
- My Blog Server was Cracked
- Secure Boot and Protecting Against Root
- Some Notes on DRBD
- Hetzner Failover Konfiguration
- Cocolo Chocolate
- Some OWS Stuff
- CyanogenMod and the Galaxy S
November 2011
- Links November 2011
- Receiving Death Threats
- Galaxy S vs Xperia X10 and Android Network Access
- Cruises
- Good Riddance to Flash
October 2011
- SE Linux Status in Debian 2011-10
- Links October 2011
- Desktop Equivalent Augmented Reality
- Capabilities vs SE Linux
- Dual SIM Phones vs Amaysim vs Contract for Mobile Phones
- Donating old Hardware
- Stop HRL
- Desks
- Occupy Main Street
- Dedicated vs Virtual Servers
- Servers vs Phones
- Akonadi on a MySQL Server
September 2011
August 2011
July 2011
- Links July 2011
- SE Linux File Context Precedence
- /run and SE Linux Policy
- Multiple Filesystems for Security
- Can Online Dating make You Depressed?
June 2011
- Links June 2011
- Pool Parties
- Parsing Daemontools/Multilog dates in Shell Script
- Evil Psychologists
- Rallying for a Carbon Tax 5th June
- Leaving Three
- Ziggy’s Lecture about Nuclear Power
May 2011
- Links May 2011
- Are Assholes Essential to a Free Software Project?
- Book Company Bankruptcy
- Preventing the End of the World
- Osama bin Laden
- This Event Will be Photographed
April 2011
- Autism Awareness and the Free Software Community
- What is Valid SE Linux Policy?
- Australia Needs it’s own Monarch
- Links April 2011
- Virgin Refunds Me $200
- More about the Xperia X10
- Who is the Best Free Software Advocate?
March 2011
- Links March 2011
- Is Asperger Syndrome a Good Thing?
- Some Postfix Scripts for dealing with Outbound Spamming
- Effective Computers for Schools
- Radiation Poisoning
- Climate Action Now Rally Melbourne 12th March
- How Not to Park a Mercedes
February 2011
- Links February 2011
- Virgin Mobile CRM Upgrade Failure
- On Burning Platforms
- Sony Ericsson Xperia X10i – First Experience
- Mplayer, Squeeze, and SE Linux on i386
- LCA2011, Harassment, etc
January 2011
2010 148
December 2010
- Links December 2010
- Locked Down Phones and Horrible Telcos
- Dynamic DNS
- Empathy, Autism, and Geeks
- Aspie Social Skills and the Free Software Community
November 2010
- The Sad State of Shopping in Australia
- Open Respect
- Quality of Cameras in Phones
- Victorian State Election
- The Wikireader
- Links November 2010
- A First Digital Camera
- Ruxcon 2010
- A Mobile Phone for Sysadmin Use
- Play Machine Online Again
- Unparliamentary Language and Free Software
- Communication Shutdown and Autism
October 2010
- Parkour in Melbourne
- Links October 2010
- Web Video, Global Innovation, and Free Software
- Choosing an Android Phone
- Open Source Learning
September 2010
- Links September 2010
- Is Pre-Forking any Good?
- My Squeeze SE Linux Repository
- Preferring Low Quality and Microsoft Software
- How to Start Learning Linux
- Raw Satire Usually Fails on the Internet
- Optimising the How To Vote Process
August 2010
- Interesting Developments in Islamic Culture
- Links August 2010
- A Netbook for Aircraft Navigation
- Telling People How to Vote
- It’s Election Time Again
- The Gift of Fear
- Ethernet Interface Naming
- Cyborgs solving Protein Folding problems
- The Lord of the Fries
- Why Clusters Usually Don’t Work
- WordPress Maintainability
- Pre-Meeting Lightning Talks
July 2010
- Yubikeys Have Arrived
- Creating a SE Linux Chroot environment
- Links July 2010
- SE Linux status in Debian/Squeeze
- SE Linux audit2allow -R and Milter policy
- Digital Video Cameras
- Tracking down Write/Execute mmap() calls with LD_PRELOAD
- Is Lebara the Cheapest Mobile Phone company in Australia?
- libcsoap/libnanohttp
June 2010
- Play Machine Online Again with Xen 4.0
- New SE Linux Policy for Squeeze
- Can you run SE Linux on a Xen Guest?
- Virtual Hosting Prices
- Carpal Tunnel – Getting Better
- Should Passwords Expire?
- Defense in Depth and Sudo
- Links June 2010
- Logging Shell Commands
- Mailing List Meta-Discussions
- Does Every Serious Mailing List need a Non-Serious Counterpart?
- Is the PC Dying?
- Bugs in Google Chrome
- Securely Killing Processes
- Can SE Linux Implement Traditional Unix Users and Groups?
May 2010
- Logging in as Root
- Brother MFC-9120CN Color LASER Printer
- UBAC and SE Linux in Debian
- Links May 2010
- GM Food and Vaccines
- A School IP Project
- Google Chrome and SE Linux
- Timing Processes
- Pants To Poverty
- Noise Canceling Headphones and People Talking
- systemd – a Replacement for init etc
- Flash, Apple, and Linux
- Lexmark Supposedly Supports Linux
- Marshmallow Challenge for Linux Programmers
April 2010
- Link Within
- CPL Still Sucks
- Links April 2010
- Is the NBN a Good Idea
- Upgrading a SE Linux system to Debian/Testing (Squeeze)
- Creating a Micro Conference
- ATI ES1000 Video on Debian/Squeeze
- Debian/Testing and KDE4
- Web Server Performance
- Health and Status Monitoring via Smart Phone
- Slavery vs Child Porn
- Too Stupid to be a Bishop
March 2010
- Why Comments?
- New Portslave release after 5 Years
- Server Costs vs Virtual Server Costs
- Autism vs Asperger Syndrome
- How to Choose a Free Software Mission
- Hacker Spaces
- Bose vs Bauhn/Aldi Noise Canceling Headphones
- Links March 2010
- Citing Wikipedia
- Xen and Debian/Squeeze
- Maintaining Screen Output
- Starting with KVM
- Thinkpad T61
- The Yubikey
- Types of Security Tokens
- CAL – Self-Serving and Useless
- Designing a Secure Linux System
- Storage vs RAM Size
- Opera and Trusting Applications vs Trusting Servers
February 2010
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- I have a Chocolate Fridge
- Terms of Abuse for Minority Groups
- Divisive Behavior
- Net Neutrality
- Can the NBN Ever Break Even?
- Would you Short-Change a Pedophile?
- National Broadband/Porn Network
- Links February 2010
- Will Aliens be Alien?
- I Just Bought a new Thinkpad and the Lenovo Web Site Sucks
- Which People are Stupid on the Internet?
- Web Site Validation
- Security and Hiring
- Michael Atkinson Lies
- 3G Broadband for Home Use
- Precision vs Accuracy in Identifying People
January 2010
- Choosing an Australian Mobile Telco for use with Android
- My Ideal Mobile Phone
- The Australian Open and Android Phones (Seer)
- Costs and Benefits of Search Engines
- Discovering OS Bugs and Using Snapshots
- Old Mobile Phones as Toys
- Preventing Children from Accessing Porn
- How to Lose Customers
- Three Monopolists
- Taking my Thinkpad Apart and Cooling Problems
- Why Internet Access in Australia Sucks
- Cheap Net Access in Australia
- Links January 2010
- My Ideal Netbook
- The Always Innovating Smartbook/Netbook
- The Lenovo U1 Hybrid – an example of how Proprietary OSs Suck
- Another Hot Summer
- Ext4 and Debian/Lenny
- Which is Better, Original DVD or Pirate MP4?
- An Interesting new “Auction” Site
- Ext4 and RHEL5/CentOS5
2009 153
December 2009
- I Bought the Bose QC-15
- Shared Objects and Big Applications
- Play Machine Online Again
- Nagios and SSL in Debian
- Links December 2009
- US Border Security
- Testing Noise Canceling Headphones
- Noise Canceling Headphones
November 2009
- The Transition to Ext4
- Play Machine Offline for 2 Weeks
- New RFID Passport
- Who Should Edit Wikipedia and Where Should they Do It?
- Killing Bankers
- Seatbelts and Transporting Computers
- Computer Security and Political Censorship
- SCO Unix and Proftpd
- Car Drivers vs Mechanics and Free Software
- Designing Unsafe Cars
- Laptop Reliability
- Planning Servers for Failure
- Some Tips for Shell Code that Won’t Destroy Your OS
- First Dead Disk of Summer
- Debian SSH and SE Linux
- Backing up MySQL
- What to do When You Break a Server
- Links November 2009
- I’m an Aspie
October 2009
- New Play Machine
- Exetel Stupidity
- WordPress Plugins
- Virtual Hosting Features
- Mobile Phones Are Computers
- Links October 2009
- TPG Lies
- New Servers – a non-virtual Cloud
September 2009
- Links September 2009
- Gnash and use of Free Software
- Bad but Appealing Copyright Arguments
- Free Books and T-Shirt Sales
- Ownership of Laptops for Work
- Healthcare and Free Software
- The Streisand Effect and Chinese Barratry
August 2009
- Free K-12 Text Books
- Increasing Productivity through Clean Air
- NBD and PXE Booting on Debian
- Mail Server Security
- Rewine
- CEO Pay
- The Lack of Browser Security
- School Reunions
- Why you should maintain old URLs
- Child Abuse and Censorship
- Ffmpeg and Video on a Viewty Phone
- Links August 2009
- Aquatic Apes
- Water Dogs – Good for Uplift?
- How to Choose a NetBook
- Botnets and Political Censorship
- Help A Reporter Out
July 2009
- New Lamps for Old – Light Changing and Burglary
- Bad Math at TED
- How to Setup Bittorrent
- Rationing of Health Care
- DRM and Rogue Employees
- I’m Not a Fan
- Respecting the Audience
- Links July 2009
- Hating Microsoft
- Sex and Lectures about Computers
- Journalism, Age, and Mono
- Released Bonnie++ 1.96
- DomainKeys and OpenSSL have Defeated Me
- Web Hosting After Death
June 2009
- Valgrind and OpenSSL
- Microsoft Open Source Information Evening
- Unreasonably Large Source Packages
- Valgrind/Helgrind and STL string
- Lies and Online Dating
- A “Well Rounded” CV
- Links June 2009
- Religion vs Cult
- Finding Thread-unsafe Code
- McDonalds – Wifi Without Power
- IT Jobs and Working Conditions
- The Millennium Seed Bank
- Actually You Do Care
- Linux Rate-Limiting of an ADSL Link
- How not to write the way dumb people think smart people write
May 2009
- Expectations and Fandom
- LG U990 Viewty
- Links May 2009
- Appropriate Talks about Porn
- The Main Security Problem
- Dom0 Memory Allocation and X
- Cpl
- Too Stupid to be a Judge
April 2009
- Redundancy in Network Infrastructure
- Email Passwords
- Creating a Double-Ended Bun
- Links April 2009
- Vibration and Strange SATA Performance
- Mo Rewards
- Amusing Thanks.txt Entry
- The Future of Electric Cars
- The AP and Copyright on the Web
- Fixing the Correct Network Bottleneck
- Australian Democracy is “Microsoft Compatible”
- Fads and Internet Services
- Real-World Car Safety Tests
- Tithing for Open Source
- Google Server Design
March 2009
- Censorship, Piracy, and Movie Ideas
- Inhaling Petrol Fumes
- Links March 2009
- Linux Powered Battle Droids
- Feeds and Banning from Planets
- Choosing a Server for CPU Intensive work
- Dear Magazines – Please Publish Your Adverts Online
- The Cost of Car Crashes
- Hyperthermia and Children in Cars
- Lobbying for Free Software
- Question about a “Secure Filesystem”
- Why Cyrus Sucks
- Maildrop, IMAP, and Postfixadmin
- I need an LMTP server
- The FAIL Meme
- Case Sensitivity and Published Passwords
- SE Linux Lenny Status Update
- You Have the Right to Not Search My Bag
- A Police SMS about Fire Risk
February 2009
- Links February 2009
- Tragedy and Profit
- Red Hat, Microsoft, and Virtualisation Support
- Lenny Play Machine Online
- Xen and Lenny
- Do Spammers target Secondary MX Servers
- Normalising Wages
- Bridging and Redundancy
- Employment Packages
January 2009
- Predictions for 2009 and Beyond
- How to Support Straight Marriage
- Netbook Thermal Issues
- Voting and Linux Australia
- It’s too Hot in Melbourne
- Links January 2009
- SE-LAPP
- Status of SE Linux in Debian LCA 2009
- Security Lessons from a Ferry
- Security Enhanced PostgreSQL
- Old PDA vs New Mobile Phone for PDA use
- Planet Flooding
- Debian Multimedia and SE Linux
- Video Camera for Shared Movies
2008 245
December 2008
- Tidal River
- Links December 2008
- Per-process Namespaces – pam-namespace
- Christmas Toys for Children
- Please Turn off Your Spam Protection
- Toy Helicopter
- More about Australian Internet Censorship
- New version of Bonnie++ and Violin Memory
- Gmail and Anti-Spam
November 2008
- Physical vs Virtual Servers
- Leaving Optus
- Links November 2008
- Slicehost vs Linode
- Bill Joy
- Flash Storage and Servers
- SE Linux and Decrypted Data
- Keating College
- Other Reasons for not Censoring the Net
- The National Cost of Slow Internet Access
- LUV Talk about Cloud Computing
- EC2 and IP Addresses
- Support Gay Marriage in case You Become Gay
- Basics of EC2
- Christian Principles in an Election Year
- Types of Cloud Computing
- Integrity and Mailing Lists
October 2008
- Jabber
- The Latest Dick Smith Catalogue
- Links October 2008
- Moth in my Celery
- Upgrading a server to 64bit Xen
- Kernel issues with Debian Xen and CentOS Kernels
- The Next Miserable Failure?
- Combat Wasps
- Programming and Games for Children
- Some RAID Issues
- EC2 Security
- Updated EC2 API Tools package
- I Won’t Use Drizzle
- Future Video Games
- The Security Benefits of Being Unimportant
- RPC and SE Linux
- Getting Started with Amazon EC2
- DKIM and Mailing Lists
- How Many Singularities?
- Solutions for the Housing Crisis
- Could we have an Open Computing Cloud?
September 2008
- Links September 2008
- Never Trust a DRM Vendor
- My Prediction for the iPhone
- OpenID Delegation
- Now Using OpenID
- Things you can do for your LUG
- An Update on DKIM Signing and SE Linux Policy
- Play Machine Update
- Installing DKIM and Postfix in Debian
- Debugging as a Demonstration Sport
- RSS Aggregation Software
- Software has No Intrinsic Value
- A Revolution Done Right
- The Problem is Too Many Remote Controls
- Laptop Computer Features
- Not All Opinions Are Equal
- Fixing execmod (textrel) Problems in Lenny
- Noise in Computer Rooms
- Islamophobia
- Execmod and SE Linux – i386 Must Die
- Efficiency of Cooling Servers
- SE Linux in Lenny status – Achieved Level 1
- Random Opinions, Expert Opinions, and Facts about AppArmor
- Google Chrome – the Security Implications
August 2008
- Links August 2008
- Improving Blog Latency to Benefit Readers
- Swapping to a Floppy Disk
- Killing Servers with Virtualisation and Swap
- Is SE Linux Unixish?
- Xen and Linux Memory Assignment Bugs
- Play Machine Downtime
- AppArmor is Dead
- Switches and Cables
- Purging an RT Database
- DNS Secondaries and Web Security
- Ownership of the Local SE Linux Policy
- SE Linux Policy Packaging for a Distribution
- Australian Business and IT Expo
- Starting to Blog
- CPU vs RAM
- SpamAssassin During SMTP
- Compassion for Windows Users
- Executable Stacks in Lenny
- Xen CPU use per Domain
- A Basic IPVS Configuration
- Time Zones and Remote Servers
- A New Strategy for Xen MAC Allocation
- New HP Server
- Lenny SE Linux on the Desktop
- Used Car Prices
- On Talking to Police
- Upgrading SE Linux Policy
- Postfix and chroot
- selinux-activate
July 2008
- Mental Benchmarking
- Installing SE Linux on Lenny
- Variable Names
- SE Linux in Lenny Status
- Biba and BLP for Network Services
- New Net Connections
- Links July 2008
- SE Linux Policy Loading
- Bad Telstra
- Review of the EeePC 701
- Pollution and Servers
- Xen and EeePC
- Mobile SSH Client
- Logic and Pants
- New SE Linux Policy for Lenny
- Is a GPG pass-phrase Useful?
- Label vs UUID vs Device
- New ZCAV Development
- Advertising a Scam
- Awful Computers for Kids
- New Dell Server
- Shared Context and Blogging
- LUV Meeting July 2008
- The History of MS
June 2008
- The New DNS Mess
- Kernel Security vs Uptime
- Dell PowerEdge T105
- Safety of Child Seats
- Car vs Public Transport to Save Money
- Links June 2008
- Solving Rubik’s Cube and IO Bandwidth
- TED – Defining Words
- ISP Redundancy and Virtualisation
- Letter Frequency in Account Names
- The Cost of Owning a Car
- What is Appropriate Advertising?
- I’m Skeptical about Robotic Nanotech
- Wyndham Resorts is a Persistent Spammer
- ECC RAM is more useful than RAID
- Perpetual Motion
- Record Oil Prices
- SE Linux Support in GPG
- I Just Joined SAGE
- BIND Stats
- The Date Command and Seconds Since 1970-01-01
- Moving a Mail Server
- Mobile Facebook
- Shelf-life of Hardware
May 2008
- Links May 2008
- CPU Capacity for Virtualisation
- Hosting a Xen Server
- Xen Hosting
- IPSEC is Pain
- School Bag Weight
- Keith Olbermann on Bush
- Installing a Red Hat based DomU on a Debian Dom0
- Xen and Swap
- Security Flaws in Free Software
- The New OLPC
- Debian SSH Problems
- Ideas to Copy from Red Hat
- Smoke from the PSU
- Release Dates for Debian
- Miro AKA DemocracyPlayer
- The Future of Xen
April 2008
- Offensive Blog Posts
- The Purpose of Planet Debian
- Planets and Resignations
- Preparing for a Collapse
- Bugs and User Practice
- Solar Powered PC
- Making Linux DVDs
- Motivation and Perspective
- Resizing the Root Filesystem
- Software Development is a Team Sport
- Buying Old PCs
- Fried Food
- Friends and Adverts
- Debian Work and Upstream
- Car Sharing in Melbourne
- A Bio-fuel Petrol Station
- Vegie Cars
- Football Cards and Free Kittens
- Olympics and Politics
- Links April 2008
- Blog Posts Should Stand Alone
- Trust and My SE Linux Play Machine
- SE Linux Play Machine and Passwords
- SE Linux Etch Repository for AMD64
March 2008
- Debian SE Linux Status
- The Inevitability of Victory
- Barack Obama wants a National CTO
- Unusual Ways of Helping the Environment
- Not Visiting the US
- Links March 2008
February 2008
- Redirecting Output from a Running Process
- Future Versions of Windows
- Chilled Memory Attacks
- EeePC for a Teenager
- Giving Away Hardware
- Watching While Waiting
- Service Videos
- Athlon Memory Problems
- Oracle Unbreakable Linux
- Laptop vs Book Weight
- Hot Plug and How to Defeat It
- The Bill – Computers for Police
- An Obstacle for Women in the IT Industry
- Political Blog Posts
- Linux Resource Controls
- The Failure of my Security Blogging Contest
- Party for U18s at LCA 2009
January 2008
- Security Blogging Contest
- Free Textbooks
- Suse and LCA
- My LCA Talk
- Talking Fast
- Change of Rules for the Blogging Contest
- LCA 2008 Security Miniconf
- Write Intent Bitmaps
- Other Planet LCA 2008
- Organic Food in Melbourne
- IDE DMA and Flash
- How I Partition Disks
- Storing a GPG key
- Asus EeePC as a Router
- Secure Computation on an Insecure Base
- Free Software Community and forking
- SoftwareFree.org Violates Blog Content Licenses
- LCA 2008 Security Blogging Contest
- Gifts for Strangers
- Bruce Schneier Advocates no Encryption
- Differences between Distribution Kernels
- Victoria Hotel Melbourne
- Weather in Melbourne
- Oaks on Market
- Some LCA Melbourne Advice
- Linux in Singapore
- No more War On Terror in the UK
- Comment Policy
- Blog Friends?
- Labour policies and Internet Censorship
- Low Power – They Just Don’t get it
- Fluorescent vs Incandescent lights