Well, today is my last day and so without much fanfare I say "adieu" to Mandriva.

As the title indicates, never a dull moment. You get spoiled with new stuff, then have to go back and re-setup old stuff. Part of this switch for Oden is that the build system …

This week's TechMail is VMware Server 2.0 offers handy new upgrades which takes a look at the new(ish) VMware Server 2.0. When I wrote it, it was pretty much the first time I've looked at VMware Server for a while... it made a decent alternative to VMware …

So, I've gotten quite a few emails about what I'm going to be up to, so to save myself having to type the same thing over and over, here's the lowdown.

I'll be hanging out with Adam for two days in February... you can see where he's going to be …

Well, that cat is out of the bag now (finally). As noted here:

http://blog.mandriva.com/2009/01/23/goodbye-vincent-welcome-back-oden/

I am leaving Mandriva after almost 9 years. And I quote:

After nearly 9 years, Vincent Danen will be leaving Mandriva at the end of this month. Again we …

Well, due to some changing circumstances, I decided I'd try to get a better handle on my email and maybe move to using IMAP instead of downloading all my mail. There are some really irritating reasons why this is a bad idea (in my case).

Google's use of labels is …

All of my reading of reviews lead me to believe that Ninja Gaiden Sigma is one of the hardest games out there. Well I can tell you it's true. Man, this game is really starting to drive me nuts! I enjoy doing the odd bit of gaming, and I certainly …

This week's TechMail is Remotely monitor servers with the Nagios check_by_ssh plugin which discusses using the check_by_ssh plugin in Nagios to get local plugin results from remote systems, via ssh. I use this to monitor my VPS and other remote systems so I can see things like load average, disk …

Adam forwarded me a link to his latest blog post about Linux security. It's quite amusing to read (I suspect someone must have told him how uber secure Linux is). Anyways, it's completely true so for all the pundits who preach on how much more secure Linux is than Windows …

A friend pointed me to a really cool blog post called The Larry Test. It basically talks about when done is Done. I.e. an engineer will keep working stuff until it's perfect, likely because it's in our nature (I can't tell you how many times I've rewritten code just …

This week's TechMail is Learning more about Nagios for server monitoring which reviews the book Learning NAGIOS 3.0 published by Packt Publishing. This is a pretty decent book for anyone interested in learning more about Nagios. It taught me, who's been using Nagios for some time, a few new …