This week's TechMail is Using Corkscrew to tunnel SSH over HTTP which talks about creating an SSH tunnel using HTTP and the Corkscrew tool. Very cool and interesting stuff. Fortunately I've never been in such a restrictive environment where I've needed to use it, but it's good to know in …

Ok, I've just updated my Fedora Planet config so that only stuff in the Linux category (and sub-categories, like "Red Hat") will show up on Planet. Sorry if you felt I was spamming Planet with non-Linuxy stuff, I wasn't really thinking about breaking it down further to just having on-topic …

No, I'm not throwing one although it would be amusing... sad thing is, I'm geekish and all my friends know it, and a large majority of them (also sadly) use Windows yet I think if I threw a Windows 7 house party... no one would show. I'm quite certain all …

This week's TechMail is Get network versatility with SSH tunneling and netcat which talks about using netcat as a proxy tool to bounce transparently through a bastion host to a secure end point. It's not something that you may use a lot, but if you need to be able to …

This week's TechMail is Configuring VOIP in Twinkle which talkes about how to setup Twinkle, a SIP softphone, for VOIP. It's ugly, but it works really well. =)

This week's TechMail is Save time on downloads with delta RPMs in Fedora 11 which discusses the delta RPM feature in Fedora, how to set it up and use it, and why you would want to. Delta RPMs don't make sense for everyone, but they will for quite a few …

So I was approached by Eugeni, one of my former fellows at Mandriva, today about some collaboration in regards to Mandriva's msec and my way-back-when fork for Annvix, rsec. He wrote a blog post about msec's future and plans detailing the things he wants to do with msec in the …

This week's TechMail is Mirroring Web sites with wget which discusses using wget to mirror... websites! Pretty simplistic, but a lot of people miss some real goodies by ignoring CLI applications.

This week's TechMail is Monitor your system for threats with rsec alerts which discusses the rsec tool I forked from Mandriva's msec years ago (for Annvix). It's been updated and is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (and CentOS 5) as I think it's still a pretty good tool …

This week's TechMail is Tweeting from the command line. Basically it discusses using a shell script to send out tweets to Twitter. Interestingly enough, one of the comments posted on that tip from a TechRepublic member discusses how he setup a private twitter account so he can control who watches …