This week's Linux techmail is How to set up WebDAV hosting on Apache which looks at how to setup your Apache server for use as a WebDAV server. This was a tricky one for me as I'd tried it before and couldn't get one of my applications that allowed syncing …

This seems to be an ongoing saga so now I'm going to vent about it. It is ridiculous that an organization supposedly as secure as CERT can have such poor distribution mechanisms for alerting users of their new GPG keys. It is really important that, when you update GPG keys …

And this is why I have randomly generated passwords on all sites and services... this is funny, but sadly way too true.

As with the Linux tips, I've been so busy that I've neglected the mac tips, so here they are:

Power up your Apple Mail with MailTags and Mail Act-On discusses two very useful plugins for Apple Mail. With these plugins you can put Mail on steroids with some great filtering …

I've been so busy in the last little while I've not had a chance to post the recent techmails that have gone up, so here goes:

Cloud-based RSS reading with Google Reader and Liferea looks at using Liferea as a client for Google Reader. The nice thing about using Google …

A little bit frustrated with Fedora's new git repositories this morning (for packages). Ding-Yi Chen has a really nice write-up on how to get started with it. Got me a few of the essentials that I had missed earlier. I like the new certificate that can be used with Koji …

This week's techmail is Clear some desk space with cross-platform keyboard and mouse sharing app. The tip is about Synergy+ which is awesome cool. With it, I can share the same keyboard and mouse across as many computers as I want (it's cross-platform, so I use it with my OS …

Last week's techmail was Head off problems by monitoring servers with munin which takes a look at the Munin program. Munin is pretty slick in that you can use it to monitor resource usage on the local machine and networked clients as well. Goes nicely with Nagios when you have …

Last week's mac techmail was Mind mapping with MindNode for the Mac. MindNode is a neat program that lets you do mind mapping, or drawing pictures to represent thoughts or plans or ideas. Mind mapping is quite popular, and with good reason as it gives you a visual representation of …

Seems like I fill quite a few of these roles... so how come I don't have all the spare time these guys do? Maybe I need to have a single role, so that instead of switching roles while one is "busy" I can have one role with blockers. Hmmmm....

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