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 …

This week's TechMail is A Mandriva user kicks around Fedora Core 10: How does it compare? (not the title I chose, but I guess my editor figured it needed my "flare"). Basically talks about my first impressions of using Fedora 10, considering I've more or less exclusively used Mandriva for …

This week's TechMail is Check out subversion repositories with ViewVC which is pretty much just about installing and configuring the ViewVC web-based tool to view subversion repositories (works with cvs too).

Well, technically speaking, I guess this is a bit of a downgrade. But, since I'm not longer using Mandriva and need to get used to Red Hat products (Fedora, RHEL, etc.), CentOS makes sense for upgrading my internal server to. It was also a long week, so I goofed a …

Well, I took my first trip to the USA, ever, this week and it was down to Raleigh, NC, for orientation with Red Hat. I'd like to say it was an experience (meaning the trip), but it wasn't... I was mostly fighting too hard to stay awake so it all …

This week's TechMail is: Get started with the security tool OSSEC, a quick run-down of what OSSEC is and how to use it. It's a pretty big "package", so I couldn't cover everything, just a single-server-use scenario which I think is what the majority of people would use it for …