my web 0.2 website

I’m somewhat worried about the future of Xen.  I’ve spent the last few years being worried about the future of Xen, because it’s been a project that’s been relatively encumbered by politics.  So much so that (and in fairness, partly because) the Linux kernel developers have been keen to work on their own virtualisation projects.
I […]

Like most original internet standards, the DNS was designed to initially suit the needs of any section of the world that could communicate using 7-bit ASCII and Latin character sets. Then the internet became really popular. Everywhere. The DNS had to evolve to cope with naming schemes that came from alphabets all […]

I tried to open some dialogue with colleague members of the ITSPA about Vodafone’s legal challenge to Ofcom’s two-hour number port ruling.  Instead I got a number of offlist replies suggesting Vodafone’s challenge is still news to many in the industry.
Today, if you want to port your number from one service provider to another, it […]

When men were men and text was text, I could open a text editor, then put some, err, text in, and then save it as text. Then Apple released Leopard, the latest version of their operating system which shipped with the usual text editor (called Text Edit). And it doesn’t let me save […]

I cited a DoJ statement in a previous article that was destined to stagnate or kill all innovation on the web, by permitting ISPs to end the end-to-end nature of the internet.
I’ve been trying to draw the attention of some other technical people by talking about NN on mailing lists.  Sadly some people have got […]

I have twice now had to defend an unpopular premise - that local governments should not provide free wifi to residents and visitors. A recent thread on the Open Rights Group discussion list almost got pretty out of hand between a few people who thought it was dangerous for the government to be providing […]

I registered with facebook some weeks ago, and think it’s a pretty cool website. I made a parody version of their front page called arsebook, and it has been pretty well visited with nearly 40,000 visitors so far.
I didn’t think that everyone who came to see the site would get the joke - thats […]

I posted to UKNot last week that I’d been having trouble with Mail.app since I started using the GPGMail plugin. When I left an IMAP folder, then some messages would change from being marked as read, to being marked as unread again. Because I automatically filter new mail into folders, this was causing […]

I am getting quite excited about some of the material I have been reading on Common Event Expression (pdf).  CEE is a desire to standardise the way that events are described.  I can see this being of significant advantage to sysadmins who need to produce large scale monitoring systems.
We already all use syslog-ng or rsyslogd […]

I was trying to print from a mac to the HP Laserjet 1022n printer.  Bonjour could see the printer, but couldn’t find a driver.
All of the blogs I found when googling recommended to plug the printer into the mac directly, let it detect it as a local printer, then plug it back into the network.  […]