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 …

This week's mac techmail is Advanced tips for using LaunchBar shortcuts with Mac. I love LaunchBar and have talked about it before. I absolutely could not imagine life without it, and I'm still learning new things to do with it, so this tip mentions some of that stuff. Specifically, on …

This week's techmail was Managing MySQL with MySQL Workbench. I've always been a CLI guy when it comes to MySQL (as with most things: mutt, irssi, etc.), and when I needed something GUIrific I went with phpMyAdmin. However, I've looked at MySQL Workbench and I like what I'm seeing. The …

Last week's mac techmail was Protect your privacy with Little Snitch for Mac which talks about Little Snitch, one of my absolute favourite and essential mac software tools. Little Snitch is an outbound firewall, so it will alert you if any applications try to make outbound connections (anything from a …

This week's mac techmail is Upload your old email to Google Apps. If you have a Google Apps account, rather than a GMail account, you can use the Google Email Uploader tool to upload old/existing emails from a local client to Google Apps. This is great if you want …

This week's techmail is Work on remote Subversion repositories locally with Git which talks about using Git locally to interface with a remote (or local, even) subversion repository. Involved in a project that uses Subversion as their version control system, but prefer to use Git? No problem. The svn-git plugin …