A Smackerel of Opinion

A few months ago I did a quick and dirty benchmark of the Intel rdrand instruction found on the new Ivybridge processors.  I did some furthe...

Software is complex and is never bug free, but fortunately there are many different tools and techniques available to help to identify and c...

After upgrading to a new "shiny" Virgin Media Super Hub I started to get annoying ssh timeouts on idle connections.  After some Go...

Over the past several months I've been occasionally back-porting a bunch of eCryptfs patches onto older Ubuntu releases.  Each back-port...