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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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 …