This week's techmail is Snoop on your own network with ntop, which discusses the many uses for the ntop application and why you want to use it, particularly if you need to keep an eye on your network traffic and throughput. ntop is a great analysis tool that deserves a …

Last week's techmail was Using BitlBee to consolidate instant messaging into one client which talks about the really neat BitlBee program which brings your instant messaging to IRC. It's got a few rough edges, but it's really quite neat and worth checking out if you're tired of using multiple apps …

This week's TechMail is Keep IMAP email messages locally using OfflineIMAP. OfflineIMAP is an extremely cool program that lets you treat IMAP mail as local with two-way synchronization. Works awesome with mutt and allows you to keep a local copy of stuff for grepping or using mairix with, etc. Good …

This week's TechMail is Configure Apache to support multiple SSL sites on a single IP address which talks about the new SNI (Server Name Indication) feature in Apache 2.2.12. This is a really welcome feature as previously if you wanted more than one SSL-secured site, you needed more …

This week's TechMail is Setting up a Cisco VPN connection with Network Manager which shows just how easy it is to setup Fedora to connect to a Cisco VPN using Network Manager (other distros too, I suppose). Also mentions OpenVPN as well. At any rate, this is an introduction to …

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. =)