It's been an amusing morning reading more takes on the Debian OpenSSL issue. While I was in the know before most others due to vendor-sec, and was able to quickly verify this didn't affect Mandriva, the fallout still continues. For those that think otherwise, this is a big issue, and …

At the end of the month Mandriva is celebrating it's 10 year anniversary. I didn't think I was going to be able to get to come, but it turns out that I am (thanks Anne!). This is very cool for me because in June I'll be celebrating two anniversaries of …

Found this interesting comic today.. Fred linked to it in IRC and I just had to share.

This week's TechMail is about one of my favourite programs, runit: Use runit to supervise Linux services. I can't recommend runit highly enough, but ever since I started with qmail years ago and djb's daemontools, supervised services have been a bit of a thing for me. Can't live without them …

Last week's TechMail tip was Learn to use the openssl command-line program which goes into the use of... openssl... on the command-line. Stuff like generating hashes, doing general file encryption, etc.

And this week's TechMail is Try IRC with Irssi to communicate via chat, which essentially looks at irssi being the superior IRC client to anything else you can find out there. Couple screen, irssi, and mutt and you've essentially got my "command center" on any desktop/laptop. Long live the …

Been busy redoing my office this week and was busy with Mandriva release stuff last week so I forgot to put up the new TechMails. Last week's techmail was Using vi key bindings in bash and zsh, which looks at using, you guessed it, vi keybindings instead of the default …

Well, I'm no longer a virgin to the Mandriva build system. I've been using some tools, like iurt, on the secteam buildbox for a while now, but I've not had the need to use repsys or mdvsys. So I started playing with them yesterday. For starters, someone needs to make …

Saw a few others on Planet Mandriva doing this so I figured what the heck, I'd do the same. I don' t use bash tho, I use zsh and on one box I have the extended history saved (timestamps), and the other I don't. Also keep in mind that I …

Just got my hands on a new updates build server. It's a quad-core xeon 2.13GHz with 8GB RAM. To put things into perspective, this machine will replace 3 different machines eventually... one to do the administrative stuff (AMD Athlon64 2.2GHz w/ 2GB RAM), one to build 32bit updates …