This week's TechMail is Converting Subversion repositories to Git. This is a small primer on how to migrate from using Subversion for version control to using Git instead. I'm still quite a big fan of subversion, but git is pretty cool too... I can definitely see the appeal of git …

Well, this past Thursday I got my 11th tattoo (although it only looks like I have 9 in total, two were to extend earlier tattoos). Every other tattoo was pretty good pain-wise... no big deal. This one wasn't too bad either, except in a few tender spots... base of the …

This week's TechMail is How does Ubuntu's Upstart system initialization compare with runit? which looks at the upstart system vs runit. I really like runit; so much in fact that with Annvix I rewrote the entire init system to take as much advantage of runit as possible and as a …

Well, sort of.

Annvix is not coming back as an operating system like it used to be, but rather a repository of packages for RHEL/CentOS (currently just version 5). There is very little there right now: a new version of openssh and a new version of logwatch. It will …

This week's TechMail is Getting started with the yum package manager which goes into some of the basics of using yum. This was good reference for me coming from years of urpmi, so digging into the use of yum was a good exercise for how I'm going to be dealing …

A post on Planet Fedora from Nicu (What is YOUR Elvish name?) caught my attention this morning and since I'm a big Tolkien fan, I embarked to find out how cool (or not) my elvish name would be. Using the same references (thanks, Nicu, for linking them all!) I found …

So I've taken it upon myself to learn Python, which is something I've wanted to do for a while. I usually write code in PHP or shellscript, with the odd thing in Perl every once in a while (but I'm not a real big fan of perl and I don't …

Took me a bit to find one, so I'm noting it here in case I ever forget (or anyone else needs to find something like this). GNOME terminal works great (ctrl-click on the s/key challenge and it does the rest), but for OS X there wasn't something so obvious …

This week's TechMail is Set up RPM Fusion with Fedora to shore up multimedia support which looks at adding extra multimedia codecs to work with Fedora that don't come "in the box"; things like MP3 support or watching protected DVDs on your system, or watching/listening to files with proprietary …

Last week's TechMail was Set up a bluetooth keyboard and mouse in Fedora 10 which, as the title indicates, goes through setting up a bluetooth keyboard and mouse in F10. Much different from the last time I did it (much easier, much faster, a whole lot less frustration). In fact …