Some videos from LCA 2009 have been posted online, per this email from Mary Gardiner.

The video from my sVirt (MAC security for Linux virtualization) talk is available as an OGG file. I've also re-uploaded it as a google video.

I'd suggest having a copy of the slides open when watching, as they're not always shown in the video, and you're ( Read more... )

The slides from my LCA talk on sVirt talk may be found here in PDF format.

The talk seemed to go reasonably well, and had a larger audience than I expected given that Tridge and Willy were talking at the same time. A video of the talk should appear online soon.

I've finally found reliable workarounds for a long-standing issue where my Intel MacBook doesn't work with most projectors.

The error message when trying to use xrandr to force output via VGA looks like:

$ xrandr --output VGA --auto
xrandr: cannot find crtc for output VGA
It seems the driver has a bug where it thinks it has the hardware available ( Read more... )

I'm preparing to travel to Hobart for LCA next week, which will be a refreshing break from the 40° heat in Sydney, and from conference jet lag-this will my first same-timezone conference in a couple of years, and the closest I've ever been to Antarctica.

I'll be giving a talk on sVirt, a project to harden Linux-based virtualization with MAC ( Read more... )