Well, I've always had Tux hanging around the rear-view mirror of my Jetta and when we got the Sportage I had to fight with the wife to (ahem) borrow the Tux that my daughter had... aquired... from my office and hang it from the rear-view mirror of the Sportage. Of …

Ahhh... life in the wild frontier of the internet with it's pervasive exploits, backdoors, rootkits, and other goodies. It was quite a surprise this morning when I was reading through my daily logging reports and found that I had a process spring up since yesterday's report telling me that a …

Haven't posted in this section for a bit... but I have to admit that ever since I gave World of Warcaft a go, I haven't missed EverQuest or EverQuest2 at all. WoW gives me all the MMoRPG junkiness I need and although I don't have time to play it as …

Ahhh... it's cold out but I'm outside with my new couple-day old Toshiba Libretto U100.. typing is slow and I feel like my fingers are very fat, but I'm happy and satisfied. After a couple days of struggling, I've got this little beast configured almost the way I want it …

Oh my God... I just read the scariest thing on slashdot about the sale of 1000 iBooks for $50 each and the resulting riot.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/08/16/197222

This is the sickest thing I think I've read in a long time. People actually …

Has anyone else had issues with Tiger's Mail.app? I preferred the version that came with Panther! After using it for a while, and doing a fresh install about two days ago (granted, I copied all of the old files, but still... the whole system feels spunkier so one would …

I find LDAP for authentication highly irritating. It's better than some alternatives, like NIS (haven't looked at NIS+ so I don't know how it measures up), but man oh man, it's a real nuisance sometimes.

I wrote that LDAP Authentication piece when there was essentially nothing else and it took …

Just finished the first draft of my Using Kerberos 5 for Single Sign-On Authentication paper. Needs to be re-read and proofed and definitely needs some adding (i.e. adding Windows XP and Mac OS X clients, integrating with OpenLDAP, etc.). but for a starter, it's pretty good (I needed it …

I think everyone has a set of applications that are absolutely essential to them. I'd like to list a few of the essentials and favourite apps that I use for OS X (I'll do another list later for Linux). There are a lot of great applications out there... some open …

Yesterday started some of the most laughable speculation regarding Mandriva's future that I've read in a long time. It made for quite a good chuckle at first. To recap, an interview on LinuxPlanet with Ian Murdock was published yesterday indicating, among other silly rhetoric, that "Not only can they …