Can't figure out why I haven't played with LVM before, but I took a bunch of old drives (2x80GB, 2x46GB, and 2x60GB) and stuffed them in a machine I wasn't using, installed Annvix on it, and made a 345GB LVM partition that spans all six drives. Very slick! Now I …

I find the computer industry, as pertaining to Microsoft "innovation" quite laughable. But the thing I find most amusing is that people buy this whole "we're Microsoft and we innovate". I don't think Redmond has come out with an original idea in, well, years. But people don't see this. It's …

You know, it really irritates me that almost every single day there is a new "report" or article out about Linux security... and more often than not it's compared to Windows security. Not only has this topic been beaten to death, stomped on, kicked, buried, dug up, and beaten some …

It's come to my attention that some folks seem to think I'm Theo de Raadt in disguise... that I'm somewhat volatile in email. Nope... I'm not Theo. But I do get irritated fairly easily... maybe I've got a hidden God-complex somewhere that I'm not aware of, or maybe I'm fed …

I had made the transition to subversion a while ago for handling not only Annvix, but my own personal stuff as well (web work, scripts I use, etc.). The one thing that I really liked about using CVS tho was the cvs2cl script, which makes a nice little Changelog file …

Well, after some mucking around, I finally got FreeNX to work on Mandriva 2006/x86_64. The problem was the 64bit version didn't work very well. And the commercial NX server, although it says it's for i386 and amd64, also has a lot of unresolved dependencies due to it, well, being …

I don't know if I'm an idiot and just can't make it work, but I've been farting around for most of the day trying to get the desktop of one Linux box to show up on my OS X box so that I can move the Linux box into my …

Well, the wife managed to mash the Annvixmobile yesterday morning... geez, dealing with a car accident is no fun. Insurance, police reports... waiting 4hrs for a tow truck (yeah, yesterday was a great day for accidents).

Wasn't her fault at all... and no big deal.. heck, it's just a car …

Well, this is my first machine moving to the new colo facility. Should be interesting. Been farting around all day getting ready for it.. it's amazing how lazy you get when the server is in the next room. Now that it's going to be 15 minutes away, I have to …

Everytime I turn around I'm hearing someone say how good Ubuntu is. I've never tried it before today so I figured I'd give it a go and check it out. My first comment: not a big fan of brown. I'm not an "earthy" kinda guy (nevermind that my first character …