Wow. This was completely unexpected, but I just read this morning that Crispin Cowan has joined Microsoft to work on security stuff over there. This, as far as I'm concerned, is big news for Microsoft. Sounds like they may finally have someone who has a clue working over there. Of …

This week's TechMail is Learn to use a serial console on Linux which walks through the steps needed to use screen as a serial console client and setting up the remote system to answer to serial login requests. Handy for those headless servers when ssh stops working for some reason …

This is quite exciting for me as no one (other than myself) has ever written anything about Annvix before. But today I saw that Linux.com had written a review of Annvix. The title was Annvix: A stable, secure, no-frills server distro and I don't think the reviewer realized quite …

My wife works for a lutheran school as the secretary, the same school my daughter goes to. Unfortunately, it's primarily a Windows environment. It was 100% windows until I donated a linux server to handle their backups. But now that the machine is in there, it opens the door to …

This week's TechMail tip is Use OpenNTPD for time synchronization, which discusses using OpenNTPD (from the OpenSSH team) instead of the older (and more bloated) NPTD.

Today is the first day of MacHeist 2, an event where you can get 10 shareware OS X applications for $49USD (all the apps regularly priced at $343.75USD). That's a pretty spanking good deal. This year's heist looks pretty good... last year's was better, but this year isn't bad …

Forgot to close the guinea pig cage top last night, and this is what I woke up to:

Seems like the two get along just fine... I've had them together in a "controlled" environment before, and Peekaboo (the rodent) is pretty familiar with cats (we've had him for about 3 …

Remember having to write an essay in school with that same title? I do. Had to do it a few times... no longer, but it makes for a nice nostalgic title so let's just go with it.

Today was my first day "back" after three weeks of holidays. It was …

Just finished releasing Annvix 3.0-RELEASE. It's been almost a year since the last release and while this one isn't as significant (in terms of features) as 2.0-RELEASE was, it's significant in that RSBAC is gone, AppArmor is default, new kernel, new glibc, and a whole host of other …

These are older tips I wrote for TechRepublic but I found myself needing to look them up before and realized they weren't linked on my blog. Of course, with over 200 articles written for TechRepublic over the last 7-8 years, that's not surprising. =)

Anyways, Automate configuration backups with subversion is …