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.

Today is the first day of MacHeist 2, an event where you can get 10 shareware OS X applications for $49USD (all the apps regularly priced at $343.75USD). That's a pretty spanking good deal. This year's heist looks pretty good... last year's was better, but this year isn't bad …

Just finished releasing Annvix 3.0-RELEASE. It's been almost a year since the last release and while this one isn't as significant (in terms of features) as 2.0-RELEASE was, it's significant in that RSBAC is gone, AppArmor is default, new kernel, new glibc, and a whole host of other …

These are older tips I wrote for TechRepublic but I found myself needing to look them up before and realized they weren't linked on my blog. Of course, with over 200 articles written for TechRepublic over the last 7-8 years, that's not surprising. =)

Anyways, Automate configuration backups with subversion is …

This week's TechRepublic tip is Filter for unwanted mail and mailing lists with procmail, which goes into procmail recipes a little more in depth than last week's tip (size restraints on these tips sucks sometimes, so we end up with two-parters). Shows how to build recipes to delete mail you …

This week's techmail is Filter mail with powerful procmail, a brief introduction to using procmail. For those who don't get to use procmail, I feel sorry for you. Procmail is the best filtering system for email, bar none.