This week's TechMail is Secure Connections to PostgreSQL which goes a little bit into the many different possible authentication methods you can use with the PostgreSQL database server, how it differs from MySQL, and illustrates why, at least from a security standpoint, I much prefer PostgreSQL (although I don't say …

Another Techrepublic tip is up, entitled Specify who can log in via OpenSSH. I love writing about OpenSSH... it's probably, weirdly enough, one of my favourite programs. I can't imagine not having it or even surviving one day (of work) without it. This tip talks about the PermitRootLogin and AllowUsers …

I had the privilege today of getting to play with Leopard Server a little bit (the new OS X 10.5 server). I can honestly say it's extremely "wow". It's got a slick interface to configuring things like DNS, DHCP, apache, Open Directory (which is essentially OpenLDAP+Kerberos) and some …

This week's TechMail is Define disk quotas to keep users from hogging drive space. Already the comments associated with it are amusing. I wonder where people get the idea that anyone (I mean, seriously, anyone) would pay some guy $2000/mo to be a "junior disk quota manager"... like it's …

Seems like I'm writing quite a bit about OS X. Sorry, it's so new and there's some cool features in it. Like AutoFS finally working (more or less) properly out of the box. It works, but the NFS exports need to be exported to the server with the "insecure" option …

This week's TechMail tip is Authentication caching with nscd which talks about how to keep authentication credentials cached for disconnected operations (i.e. if you auth against an LDAP server and it goes down or you take your laptop home).

It's missing some bits tho, which the first comment noted …

Well, my beloved Saft is still not updated for Safari 3... there's a beta for Safari 3 that works on Tiger, but nothing that works on Leopard. Which makes Safari almost useless, although I did find in the History menu bar the option "Reopen All Windows From Last Session". Well …

Well, I did my duty on Friday and went out and grabbed a copy of OS X 10.5 (Leopard). As I was finishing my SuperDuper backups, I was poking around on Apple's support forums and heard about all the horror stories people have had. Two essential apps for me …

According to most gaming sites, Guitar Hero III is supposed to be released on October 28th. Either it got pushed forward, or I lucked out and my local Walmart screwed up big because when I was out buying picture frames, I decided to see if Conan (which was supposed to …

This week's TechRepublic tip is Configure GNU Screen to handle multiple terminals. Screen is an awesome program that works great on Linux on OS X. The tip is pretty much platform-agnostic; it works well for both Linux and OS X (I use it on both). The really great thing is …