This week's TechMail is Consider these Linux file management alternatives which discusses three alternatives to the "traditional" file managers (namely Nautilus and Konqueror). It discusses Midnight Commander, Gentoo, and Krusader (and to be honest, I really liked playing with Krusader... mc is an old hat for me, but Krusader was …

Last week's TechMail was Try command-line looping for added efficiency which discusses using loops in the shell to iterate over a number of items while using particular commands (i.e. for loops in the shell). Extremely useful stuff if you've ever needed to repeat something without wanting to hit the …

Was poking around and found some amusing "get a mac" ads on YouTube, done SouthPark style:

South Park Mac vs PC

South Park Mac vs PC vs Linux

OMG... YouTube is scary. You should check out this fellow trying to explain Why Linux is Better Than Windows. I think this …

I've spent the entire day yesterday and another day last week working on migrating the current Mandriva bugzilla 3.0.5 to the new 3.2rc1. You won't see it anywhere official until 2009.0 is released most likely, but having (some) spare time, I wouldn't to put it through …

This week's TechMail is Expanding text with Snippits in Linux, which discusses using Snippits (a ruby app) to do text expansion. Unfortunately, I went hunting for something that worked as well as Typinator or TextExpander on OS X and this was the only thing that seemed to come close. Not …

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.

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 …

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).

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.

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 …