This one may be a bit long, because I'm going to use it to vent. =) I won't make it all "front page news", tho.

On Monday I signed up with a new provider, WiredTree. I still have a few accounts with my old provider, WebHostingBuzz, but they are being slowly …

This week's TechMail is Use Dovecot for POP3/IMAP services which discusses how to setup and use Dovecot to provide POP3 and IMAP services. I've become quite the fan of Dovecot after having used it for a while; I used to use Courier-IMAP for the longest time and much prefer …

This week's TechMail is Tips and tricks for working on the command line which points out a few simple things you can do on the CLI to make life easier for yourself, such as renaming files or dealing with history, and some lesser-known character sequences you can use.

Funny thing …

This has ticked me off for a bit, and I finally decided to find out why. Tab completion in zsh was returning the following every time I tried to use it, after upgrading to subversion 1.5:

_arguments:comparguments:303: invalid argument: ARG

Looks like the reason is that the …

Well, after some discussion on cooker and, quite frankly, needing a resource myself to speed up security update testing (particularly looking for regressions), we've re-implemented "Testzilla". Sorta.

Instead of integrating with bugzilla, we've used the mediawiki framework. The reasons for this many. The biggest reason is to make the "Testzilla …

This week's TechMail is Using dnsmasq for DNS and DHCP services, which discusses using dnsmasq in place of software like BIND and ISC's dhcpd (or other similar packages). I had actually never heard of dnsmasq before poking around looking for something interesting to write about, and it's pretty neat. I …

Well, actually, I just found about it this week. The NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is "contest" to encourage people to write a novel. The goal is to write 50k words in one month.. from scratch, starting at 00:01 on Nov 1st with the deadline being 23:59 on …

This week's TechMail is Use DropBox to seamlessly sync files which discusses the DropBox service to synchronize files seamlessly and automatically between Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. This service works fantastic, BTW. 2GB of free storage with paid upgrade options. Currently still in beta, but from what I've seen so …

Seven weeks ago I setup a local copy of Bugzilla 3.2rc1 to test the upgrade/migration from 3.0.5, using the templates and data from Mandriva's bugzilla. Tonight it went live on qa.mandriva.com. Although it could have gone up 6 weeks ago, due to the release …

This week's techmail is Improve MySQL performance with MySQLTuner which discusses how to use the MySQLTuner perl script to tune the MySQL server to ensure you're not over-committing resources, that your configuration is sane, and giving helpful pointers on how to optimize your MySQL databases.