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 …

This week's TechMail is How to use Virtual Machine Manager on Fedora 11 which discusses my first foray into using Virtual Machine Manager and KVM. It's no surprise that I'm a big virtualization fan, but this is the first time I've used something baked directly into the Linux kernel. I've …

This week's TechMail is Secure remote firewall administration via SSH which talks about using ssh to create a secure tunnel to a remote network/system to use with configuring a remote firewall. I use this quite a bit with remotely-deployed pfSense boxen to configure it using the web interface and …

This week's TechMail is System monitoring with Conky which gives a quick introduction to the conky tool. I've come to like conky so much that I've replaced gkrellm by it. Really useful tool. If you use a mac, it's a lot like geektool (another tool I love), which is probably …

This week's Techmail is Setting up a dynamic DNS service part 2: dhcpd which wraps up the two part piece on setting up a dynamic DNS service, specifically covering dhcpd and tying it all together.

This past week's TechMail was Setting up a dynamic DNS service part 1: named which discusses setting up a local intranet dynamic DNS service. This is the first of two parts: the first deals with named, the second deals with dhcpd. I was put in a position where this had …