Last week's TechMail was Enhance screen with Byobu's cool functionality which looks at using Byobu to spruce up GNU screen. Byobu adds some nice color and character to screen, and is definitely worth looking into if you use screen a lot.

This week's techmail was Kerberos authentication with NFSv4 which looks at how to get more security out of NFS. By using Kerberos. I'm not sure if this is the definition of insane for a home network or not, but since I've got Kerberos running here already, I keep trying to …

Last week's mac techmail was Window switching with Witch will boost your productivity which looks at using the program Witch as an alternative to Apple's baked-in app switcher. Instead of switching windows by applications, Witch brings up a list of all windows, grouped by application, making it much easier to …

This week's mac techmail is Stream audio and video from your Mac with Playback which looks at Yazsoft's Playback software. Out of all the streaming server options for the mac that I've found, Playback is the easiest to get up and running and the one that works most reliably from …

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 …