The other day I put up a full-feature tutorial on how to use mutt on OS X (most of it is applicable to any other OS, of course... there are very few bits that are OS X specific). Thanks to a hint on macosxhints.com, this article is becoming one …

Due to an issue that the 2.6.17+ kernel exemplified, all of the sites I host (annvix.org, linsec.ca, danen.ca, etc.) have been unavailable to anyone using a 2.6.17+ kernel due to a change in the way TCP window scaling was implemented, which has been …

I've reorganized my main linsec.ca site a bit. I've moved everything into MediaWiki (yes, I'm finding I'm in love with that silly thing). Mostly because it's just more convenient to edit and nicer to keep track of statistics with. I've also taken some content from my vmlinuz.ca site …

Yes, I'm nostalgic. Before I started using Linux, I was using OS/2. I went to it from DOS/Win3.1... skipped Windows95 altogether. OS/2 was the absolute best OS back in the day (as far as I'm concerned) and being a nostalgic (and sometimes bored) idiot, I decided …

On IRC last night I was pointed to a new secure linux distro... this one simply called Hardened Linux. The individual whom I was speaking with ("Intensity") was wondering why there needed to be YASLD (Yet Another Secure Linux Distro). Interested, I was reading through the page to see if …

Found this really nice patch for mutt today, it's a sidebar patch that adds a list of mailboxes to your mutt view so you can see which mailboxes has new mail in it, the current count of messages in each, etc.

All I can say is very very nice! This …

Someone posted on the expert@ mailing list a very interesting link to a fellow who ran a series of benchmarks on different Linux filesystems over a year ago (Jan 2006). It was in the Linux Gazette and shows some very interesting stats. Granted, this was with the 2.6.14 …

It's been nearly a year in the works, but the next version of Annvix is out (2.0-RELEASE). You can read the (relatively short) "PR" on the Annvix blog announcement.

Anyways, I'm just happy it's done with. Trying to get this release out in a timely fashion, with all the …

Was banging my head with this trying to figure it out a few times and figured I'd post the solution here.

Due to googlebot and the load it was generating on my server at the colo, I had to move svn.annvix.org from my primary webserver to a spare …

My one gripe a few months ago about OS X was the lack of sshfs and fuse support... I wrote about this for a TechRepublic tip quite a few months ago and when I did I was pretty ticked that it didn't work on OS X (sshfs absolutely rocks!). Anyways …