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Ada Lovelace Day; Women in technology

I wasn't going to post anything about women in technology, on account of feeling particularly uninspired today.

However, I came across an article in a dutch newpaper when I did my what's-happening-in-the-world round this morning, featuring a woman who manages a gas production platform in the North Sea.

Suzan de Haan is not in IT, but she definitely has a tech job.

You can read the relatively awful Google translation of the print version or the original page in dutch.

STOP: Hammer time!

Do you have one or two services or applications that constantly hang or eat far too much CPU? Would you like to tell them they annoy you in a more forceful way than just kill?
Now you can, with the hammer time patch for the psmisc tools.
This patch will add the --with-a-hammer option to killall, so you can feel vindicated when these annoying processes get terminated with extreme prejudice.

mediawiki with drupal authentication

In the past few years I've set up and used MediaWikis for various open source related activities, for instance linux.conf.au 2008 and Linux Users of Victoria. Both of these would be prime targets for wikispam if anyone could anonymously edit pages on them, so edit privileges are limited to registered users only.