Via Bruce Schneier's site. Apparently wearing a flashing LED on your t-shirt is a good reason to use deadly force. Because we all know that real bombs are made with circuit board and flashing LED's. You always cut the red wire right?

Just don't read some of the commentary …

Sun would really like Solaris to re-capture the hearts of developers since loosing so many to Linux. They are certainly making strides in the right direction with their Open Source strategy. However sometimes the creakiness of the code does show up.

I've spent the best part of the day trying …

I saw an interesting piece discussing Microsoft's woes with their band-aid fix for playing multi-media while on a loaded network. From the description of the scheduling work around it does seem like a school boy error, you just can't fix performance issues by tweaking priorities.

Although Linux is still meant …

The sentencing of 4 young men today for downloading and discussing Jihadist material makes me a little uneasy. As far as I can tell none of them had planned any attacks although they did head out for training. The youngest student Raja got two years youth detention although he spent …

I've had a frustrating time with getting some of our init scripts working on both RHEL4 and SLES10. The issues have mostly been to RHEL4's less than stellar LSB implementation. Despite having a compatibility header for chkconfig it still sees the LSB stuff and promptly fails to resolve any of …