This week's techmail is Learn more about how you can use SQLite which is a bit of a primer on how you can use SQLite to create your own little SQL databases, or how you can use it to manipulate the data stored in SQLite databases found in other programs …

This past week's mac techmail was Transmit FTP client for Mac OS X gets updated to version 4 which looks at the new version of Panic's Transmit FTP/SFTP/WebDAV/S3 client. Transmit is pretty good; I've been using it for years and the new version is a nice upgrade …

This week's TechMail is How to pre-upgrade Fedora 13 which shows how to use PreUpgrade (great tool). I used it to upgrade an F12 box and it worked flawlessly, despite the small /boot size. More information on how to use it is also on the Fedora wiki.

This week's mac techmail is Fun tricks with Growl and GeekTool which looks at a (probably rather unique) scenario of running an IRC client in a virtual machine (running Linux) and having alerts show up on the OS X desktop. The tip, while relatively specific to one function, should provide …

This week's techmail is Monitoring MySQL with mytop which looks at the mytop perl tool that can help monitor and diagnose problems with MySQL (mytop is essentially a top for MySQL).

My main Fedora workstation is an HP desktop. It's got a Core i7 quad CPU (Q9300), 8GB RAM, and dual boots Windows 7 and Fedora 13.

Dear lazyweb, how can I make this system as quite on Fedora as it is on Windows? It's absolutely silent when Win7 is running …

Last week's mac techmail was Get increased password protection on the iPhone which looks at using the iPhone configuration utility to create security profiles. While this isn't a pure and perfect security solution, it's another layer in the onion that will keep casual folks off your phone and getting at …

Last week's techmail was Set up Dropbox on a GUI-less Linux server which takes you through the necessary steps of setting up Dropbox on a GUI-less Linux box. I use Dropbox here for keeping certain files in sync between systems, but I also am connected to a secondary Dropbox to …

This week's mac techmail was Get cross-platform remote access via LogMeIn and your Web browser which is a really interesting remote login system. With it I was able to control my OS X workstation from a Fedora box, from within Firefox. The downside is that I couldn't control my Fedora …

This week's techmail was Firewall configuration with system-config-firewall which discusses the niceties of using Fedora's system-config-firewall to configure iptables. I'm not much of a GUI guy, but the interface for the firewall configuration is really slick. Will it replace my use of editing iptables rules in /etc/sysconfig/iptables? Probably …