Elvish names

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 …

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S/Key calculator for OS X

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 …

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Upgrading Mandriva 2009.0 to CentOS 5.2

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 …

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First days at Red Hat, first impressions

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 …

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