This week's techmail is Set up easy file sharing with NFS on Linux which is a quick primer on getting NFS setup quickly on Linux.

Last week's mac techmail was How to set up an OS X OpenVPN client which looks at using the fantastic Shimo VPN client program to setup a client endpoint to an OpenVPN-based VPN (using certificates). It ties in with the other tips in this "series" regarding OpenVPN.

Shimo is quite …

This week's mac techmail is Get an easy VPN on-the-cheap with ShareTool for Mac which looks at ShareTool, a program that allows you to remotely control your computer when away from home, or work, whatever the case may be. I like that ShareTool uses OpenSSH for a transport mechanism, and …

This week's techmail is How to set up an OpenVPN server which is a quick-n-dirty primer on how to get OpenVPN setup. Insider's tip: it's part 1 of a 3 part series about fairly basic OpenVPN configuration and usage (OpenVPN has got a lot of neatness and frustration under the …

Last week's techmail was Enable spell-checking in Vim and customize default behavior which talks about how to get spell checking enabled in vim. I actually wasn't even aware that vim could do spell checking natively until a little while ago, and it sure makes for my use of it with …

Last week's mac techmail was Working with Safari Extensions: A few to try which is a bit of a primer on how to work with Safari's Extensions, and also gives some of my favourites to try. There aren't a lot of Extensions as of yet, but there are a few …

The mac techmail two weeks ago was Synchronize OmniFocus tasks via Spootnik on the Web which looks at the Spootnik web service. You can do more than just sync OmniFocus using Spootnik (i.e. use it as a remote WebDAV service to sync OmniFocus on two macs); if you use …

The techmail of two weeks ago was The easiest way to set up Samba for file-sharing which discusses a really quick way of getting Samba setup for filesharing. It doesn't go into all the details of setting up multiple users or different authentication types, but if you want to share …

I realized today, after having a conversation with someone at work about gpg keys and rpm support, that I haven't updated my GPG key in about 6 years.

Then I realized I harped on CERT not too long ago about not doing things right. =) Granted, my key hasn't been compromised …

Last week's mac techmail was Turn your Mac into a security surveillance centre which discusses the SecuritySpy software and using it to watch the feeds of remote video cameras. Very cool stuff, and shockingly inexpensive (the cameras I got now monitor the exterior of the house, and they were about …