A wee rant about presence

Presence, that is, in the context of instant messaging applications, i.e. "available", "away", "busy", etc. If my status is set to "busy", I don't want...

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Avahi Rocks

Last night I started playing around with [Avahi][] (Bonjour for you Mac users, "WTF?" for Windows users who haven't caught up with the 21st-century yet)....

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Munin: why's it backwards?

Munin is a pretty nice monitoring application: you install the server software on a machine, then client software on various machines, then you get nice...

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Decentralised Network Filesystem

Something I've though would be cool/useful for a while now is a decentralised network filesystem. Basically, I want an easy way of having several hosts...

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