Virgin Atlantic is going to start letting people use cell phones during flights. Even though there’s no flight safety reason why cell phones should be disallowed on aircraft, I think that letting people yack on their cell phones during flights will increase the likelihood of passengers committing acts of violence against one another. Yesterday I was at the movies, and right at the very end, someone’s cell phone started ringing. Sets my teeth on edge …
A reader sends along a pointer to a New Scientist article reporting that cell phones do cause problems with aircraft avionics.
The O’Reilly Network has published an article I really need to read: Setting Up a Firewall Under OpenBSD. I bought a Sparc Classic on eBay that I’m going to use as a firewall between my home network and cable modem. I was already planning on installng OpenBSD on it, so now all I need to do is set up the firewall according to the instructions in this article.