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Send messages and alerts from the command line

Vincent Danen    //    Tue 09 September 2008    //    Linux    //    techmail shell

Last week's TechMail was Send messages and alerts from the command line which discusses using the mail and wall commands. Two very simple, yet infinitely useful, programs.

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Crispin responds to allegations that AppArmor is dying

Vincent Danen    //    Wed 03 September 2008    //    Linux    //    apparmor selinux

A recent post from Russ Coker entitled AppArmor is Dead was tolling the death bells for AppArmor because SUSE decided to include SELinux in their operating system... not as the default, and not as a replacement for AppArmor, but it was included nonetheless. Russ determined that this was the beginning …

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One-time scheduling of tasks with At

Vincent Danen    //    Thu 28 August 2008    //    Linux    //    techmail

This week's techmail is One-time scheduling of tasks with At which discusses one-shot scheduling with the 'at' tool, rather than using something like cron. Alternatives to at include uschedule (which I personally like as it follows a djb service/run-script style concept).

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Schedule periodic tasks with cron

Vincent Danen    //    Wed 27 August 2008    //    Linux    //    techmail

Last week's techmail was Schedule periodic tasks with cron, a title that pretty much summarizes what the tip is about. All about cron and how it can schedule stuff.

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Customizing the Joe text editor

Vincent Danen    //    Tue 12 August 2008    //    Linux    //    techmail

Last week's techmail was Customizing the Joe text editor which goes into some detail regarding customizing Joe, specifically about how you can change key bindings to make shortcuts or other modifications. Joe is one of the first text editors I've ever used with Linux, and I still use it today …

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Get a complete security toolkit with BackTrack 3

Vincent Danen    //    Tue 12 August 2008    //    Linux    //    techmail security

This week's techmail is Get a complete security toolkit with BackTrack 3. I was approached a month or so ago by an individual who does forensic work, mostly on Windows and Mac computers and he was in need of something to do forensics with Linux, and wanted a tool that …

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Install extra packages on the ASUS Eee PC

Vincent Danen    //    Sat 02 August 2008    //    Linux    //    techmail

This past week's Techmail was Install extra packages on the ASUS Eee PC which discusses adding extra Xandros repositories to get more packages on the Eee PC than what the standard install provides.

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Installing Mandriva 2008.1 on the ASUS Eee PC

Vincent Danen    //    Fri 25 July 2008    //    Linux    //    techmail mandriva

This week's TechMail is entitled Installing Mandriva 2008.1 on the ASUS Eee PC, which, as the name implies, discusses Mandriva 2008.1 on the ASUS Eee PC.

When I wrote it, I had installed Mandriva onto an SDHC card, but I've since replaced Xandros with Mandriva on the SSD …

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ASUS Eee PC is a good option for a lightweight laptop

Vincent Danen    //    Tue 15 July 2008    //    Linux    //    techmail

This week's Techmail is ASUS Eee PC is a good option for a lightweight laptop which is a basic summary of the little EeePC and why I like mine. =) This one basically covers the Xandros OS that comes with the Eee, but a future one (probably next week I'm suspecting …

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GUI scripting with Zenity

Vincent Danen    //    Sat 12 July 2008    //    Linux    //    techmail

Last week's Techmail was GUI scripting with Zenity which discusses using Zenity to display GUI widgets from scripts. I've used such things for a full blown menu driven CLI app before, but Zenity is quite cool in that you get all the power of a shell script with a nice …

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