This actually isn't a sarcastic title, for once. I'm actually having a blast fiddling with Kerberos these last few days. I was put into a position to do some kerberos debugging for work, so had to re-setup a kerberos realm at home to do the testing. Of course, at the …

This week was interesting, dealing with the supposed "OpenSSH 0day" vulnerability stuff... rumours, innuendo, strange logs and packet capture files... it made for a long week trying to keep an eye on this and sort fact from fiction. Instead of focusing on the issue itself like other blogs and news …

This week's TechMail is Hacking Vim covers the basics and reveals tips for power users, which is a book review of "Hacking Vim" by Packt Publishing. If you're a (serious/wanna-be) vim user, this is a really useful book to read. I learnt a lot of tricks from it.

This week's TechMail is Use Makefiles for more than handling source code which takes a quick look at how you can use make for more than just handling source code. The example provided uses make to update remote websites (which is moderately related to source code I guess), but shows …

Last week's Techmail was Manage dotfile configuration with subversion which goes into use subversion to manage all those pesky little .foo files in $HOME. It uses a combination of subversion and make to handle it and works quite well, although the Makefile could probably be tweaked to be less annoying …

This week's TechMail is Two hours (and counting) with an upgrade to Fedora 11, in which I describe my initial experience with the upgrade of my laptop from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11. All-in-all, the upgrade was good and has worked great. I have no complaints, except for two little …

This week's TechMail is Use tabs to open multiple files in vim which pretty much discusses how to use tabs in vim so you can have multiple files open at once. Using some nice key mapping, you can navigate tabs with simple keystrokes and have vim act like any good …

Last night I attained "Legendary Status" on Rock Band by doing the never ending setlist (84 songs), on the drums, on hard (not good enough to do more than a handful on expert). It took me about 30hrs to accomplish (left the xbox on overnight hoping it wouldn't fry).

Talk …

This week's TechMail is Create custom keybindings in vim which goes into how to tweak vim's keybindings to make them more familiar if you come from another editor. It's also useful to create shortcuts for things such as moving to the end of a line. I've been using joe for …

Read an interesting piece on Lifehacker that pointed to an article entitled Working From Home: 10 Unconscious Cues to Create a Work-Life Balance. Being a remote worker for Red Hat, and before that Mandriva, I've worked full-time at home for about 10 years now. (Man, I feel old!)

Anyways, there …