Tectonic
Tectonic was a South African Open Source News Publication. Tectonic is sadly no more. The links below are to its archive of the last posts to Tectonic.
Depleted Cranium
It seems that http://www.depletedcranium.com sadly does not exist anymore. Google is not helping when I try to find out why. Update Depleted Cranium is Back! (but doesn’t seem to be updated regularly) From the About Page: This page is science, sensational science and claims that just don’t have any evidence backing them up. This page focuses…
How to fight Zombies
Anyone that runs a mail server very quickly learns how to fight spam if he wants to do his job properly. It is also one of the favourite pastimes of the clueless to think up stupid ways to fight spam. Today I saw a brilliant answer to one of these ideas on the postfix mail…
Be careful where you put your grubby little paws
While we are talking about Jacob Zuma and company down here in SA, the Germans are debating the use of biometric data for identification. One of my favourite groups the Chaos Computer Club of Berlin has pretty much proven that using biometric data like fingerprints, retina scans or facial features are not such a good idea by…
All Software sucks!
WordPress, the software I use for this blog is great and has a wonderful plugin system that allows people to add functionality that is not originally included in wordpress. Unfortunately many of the available plugins are not so wonderful and often do not work as expected (advertised). I have created this blog about a month…