Archive for the ‘Rambling’ Category
Friday, January 4th, 2008
That's right. The newly elected Labor government has decided that they should protect children from pornography, violence, and hate material on the Internet by imposing mandatory filtering of Internet traffic at the ISP level. Such filtering would be based on a black list decided by ACMA bureaucrats (who don't yet ...
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
I'm in the USA! I'll be in Costa Mesa CA until Monday, North Houston TX from Monday until Wednesday, and then back in Costa Mesa Wednesday night until Saturday night, when I return home to Perth, Australia.
Beer/food/coffee/etc, any one?
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Thursday, September 13th, 2007
[Insert IMHO disclaimer] This is quite possibly the worst reason for doing anything, ever:
(From the GNU su man page)
22.5.1 Why GNU su does not support the "wheel" group
(This section is by Richard Stallman.)
Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the rest. For example, ...
Posted in Security, GNU, Internet, Linux, Operating Systems, Rambling | 3 Comments »
Sunday, September 9th, 2007
Take the number 142,857. Multiply it by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7, as follows:
142,857 * 1
142,857 * 2
142,857 * 3
142,857 * 4
142,857 * 5
142,857 * 6
142,857 * 7
Well I thought it was neat anyway :)
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Wednesday, August 1st, 2007
This blog will be a receptacle for my knowledge and a journal of my daily life as a UNIX (FreeBSD and Linux) System Administrator for my employer (a large high-traffic web site which for now will remain unnamed).
Enjoy.
Posted in Blogging, Internet, Rambling | 1 Comment »
