There was a vulnerability in libcdio that we sat on for quite a bit because I had accidentally found another way to crash iso-info. Took some time to figure it all out, but we were persistent and Gustavo came up with the fix for all supported libcdio versions.

I don't …

This week's TechMail is Get started with GnuPG, a quick primer on another of my favourite tools: GnuPG. Learn the basics of getting your own GPG keypair created and learn a little bit about fingerprints and signatures and what they all mean.

And if you want to get more into …

This week's TechMail is Use tcpdump for network debugging which goes over some of the basics for, yes, using tcpdump to debug your network (or, if you're curious, just to watch packets sling around your computer).

This week's TechRepublic tip is on Auto-reboot Linux after a kernel panic. It's a pretty simplistic post regarding automatically rebooting the Linux kernel if it encounters a panic. The posts on it are good too, indicating on how to tell the kernel to treat an oops like a panic, thus …

Anyone have any experience with this? I may end up (and will be proposing) that the school my wife works for looks into replacing their (falling apart, IMHO) Win2k server using Active Directory for the domain controller and whatnot to a solution using Samba and OpenLDAP (and I'm presuming kerberos …

Wow. This was completely unexpected, but I just read this morning that Crispin Cowan has joined Microsoft to work on security stuff over there. This, as far as I'm concerned, is big news for Microsoft. Sounds like they may finally have someone who has a clue working over there. Of …

This week's TechMail is Learn to use a serial console on Linux which walks through the steps needed to use screen as a serial console client and setting up the remote system to answer to serial login requests. Handy for those headless servers when ssh stops working for some reason …

This is quite exciting for me as no one (other than myself) has ever written anything about Annvix before. But today I saw that Linux.com had written a review of Annvix. The title was Annvix: A stable, secure, no-frills server distro and I don't think the reviewer realized quite …

My wife works for a lutheran school as the secretary, the same school my daughter goes to. Unfortunately, it's primarily a Windows environment. It was 100% windows until I donated a linux server to handle their backups. But now that the machine is in there, it opens the door to …

This week's TechMail tip is Use OpenNTPD for time synchronization, which discusses using OpenNTPD (from the OpenSSH team) instead of the older (and more bloated) NPTD.