FOSS
Sad day for open standards
Its a sad day when one of the most open of standards bodies bows to corporate pressure. Removal of Ogg Vorbis and Theora from HTML5: an outrageous disaster …
Blog
General
Energy Australia social engineering attack
In the middle of a power outage at the moment, so I called Energy Australia to see what was going on. Me: Hi, I'm in Ryde and have no power. EA: Sure we are…
General
Google Reader Subscribers
I love Google Reader and have been using it for about 4 months to manage the 189 RSS feeds I currently care about. (Here are my shared items for anyone that is…
FOSS
Out of the wilderness
I took another step out of the wilderness today... Those who have know me for a while will know that up until recently I exclusively used linux virtual…
FOSS
SFD2006 - Return to sender
Pia posting about Software freedom day, software freedom day online shop is up, reminded me about something I've been meaning to post for a while. When you…
FOSS
DSPAM case sensitivity
I use DSPAM to handle my spam checking and have been quite happy with it as it normally delivers 99.9% hit rate. In the last few weeks the amount of spam in my…
FOSS
CeBIT - Open Source and Business Communities
At CeBIT last week I participated in a panel discussion on Open Source and Business Communities as part of OpenCeBIT. Also on the panel were Simon Phipps and…
Sysadmin
Ubuntu, VLANs and Bridges
Bridge and VLAN support has improved dramatically under Ubuntu and probably Debian as well since I last looked into it. once upon a time to create a bridge…
Sysadmin
Mongrel, rails and the theory of relativity
Summary (E = mc²) When using mongrel for rails and you want to deploy an app under /otherurl then use in config/environments/production.rb instead of…
General
linux.conf.au brings about another change
Being Technical Guru for linux.conf.au 2007 was one of the most amazing experiences I've had in recent years. It was a lot of hard work but it was totally…