This week's TechMail is Using pam_mount to automount filesystems at login, which essentially discusses using the pam_mount PAM module. A lot of people use it to mount encrypted partitions or loopback devices, which is great, but it can also be used to mount samba shares, NFS exports, etc. Very useful …

I've been saying it for a while, but never really put hard evidence to it. Our community has declined and by the numbers I'll produce, I'm going to say it declined a lot. I just wrote a quick shell script to parse the number of messages posted to each given …

A good friend of mine has over the last little while been feeding me some really great books that have made me re-evaluate a lot of things. The first book is "PresentationZen" (ISBN: 978-0-321-52565-9) which gives some really great ideas regarding presentation design and delivery of presentations. While it primarily …

This week's Techmail looks at some of the new features of ActiveState's Komodo IDE and asks Is the new Komodo 5 toolset worth the upgrade?. Personally, I think it was. Others may or may not agree... someone else has already posted about using a "real" IDE (Eclipse). Gag me with …

Some lesser-known urpmi tricks I've had to figure out today. The situation is that the machine that had my mirrored files has been moved somewhere else in order to ease up on rsync being an absolute bandwidth pig (great for downloading, bad when it's throwing nagios checks into fits).

Anyways …

The Mandriva community is small, yes, but tight-knit. This can be evidenced by the comments in my previous blog entry and the many emails I received privately, and the many chats initiated on IRC. It has been my honor and privilege to work with you guys, and I sincerely appreciate …

This week's TechMail is Use Dovecot for POP3/IMAP services which discusses how to setup and use Dovecot to provide POP3 and IMAP services. I've become quite the fan of Dovecot after having used it for a while; I used to use Courier-IMAP for the longest time and much prefer …

This week's TechMail is Tips and tricks for working on the command line which points out a few simple things you can do on the CLI to make life easier for yourself, such as renaming files or dealing with history, and some lesser-known character sequences you can use.

Funny thing …

This has ticked me off for a bit, and I finally decided to find out why. Tab completion in zsh was returning the following every time I tried to use it, after upgrading to subversion 1.5:

_arguments:comparguments:303: invalid argument: ARG

Looks like the reason is that the …

Well, after some discussion on cooker and, quite frankly, needing a resource myself to speed up security update testing (particularly looking for regressions), we've re-implemented "Testzilla". Sorta.

Instead of integrating with bugzilla, we've used the mediawiki framework. The reasons for this many. The biggest reason is to make the "Testzilla …