For a long time now, I’ve been seeing the effect of technology on everyday life. This is a great video on how technology is causing a very disruptive shift in how we view the world, what it means, and how the next generation will live.

To me, this is one of the best reasons on earth that we should be building the NBN in Australia. The future of having fibre to everywhere will give us a mass of opportunity to live in the new economy in 20-30 years time.

Just posted an update to both kernel-xen and the xen packages.

Xen changelog:

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* Sun Aug 14 2011 Michael Young <m.a.young> - 4.1.1-3
- untrusted guest controlling PCI[E] device can lock up host CPU [CVE-2011-3131]

kernel-xen changelog:

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* Fri Aug 19 2011 Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au>
! Note: USB-DVB still seems to be broken.
- commit 'v2.6.32.45':
- Linux 2.6.32.45
- powerpc: pseries: Fix kexec on machines with more than 4TB of RAM
- powerpc: Fix device tree claim code
- ALSA: snd-usb-caiaq: Fix keymap for RigKontrol3
- ALSA: timer - Fix Oops at closing slave timer
- net: Compute protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs using MD5.
- crypto: Move md5_transform to lib/md5.c</netwiz></blockquote>

Details on how to use these packages and set up a repository are available on the EL6 and Xen howto guide.

Have just finished posting a new kernel-xen to the repo.

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* Sun Aug 14 2011 Steven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au>
- Disabled module creation for USB DVB tuners due to errors on compile. This
  will affect all DVB tuners using the dvb-usb module.
  I would assume most people who run this kernel won't use USB tuners on Dom0.
- Merged in 2.6.32.44

Well, I think I’ve been on enough of a rampage spreading the word about Google Plus. So, whats missing? Adding the +1 buttons here. So now you’ll see them.

If you’re out there wondering what this whole Google Plus thing is about?

So, what are you waiting for? Oh right, an Invite. Here you go.

I’ve finally changed my blog theme after what is probably years and years of the same theme. This one is very minimalist - which means fast loading etc. I think its quite good - comments welcome :)

I’ve done a quick refresh to the Xen packages in my repo to remove an extra repository file from the package which could cause some issues with yum. Its a minor issue - so if you’ve already got 4.1.1-2 installed, just delete the file /etc/yum.repos.d/dom0-kernel.repo and you’ll be set.