Today's TechMail is Get more e-mail flexibility with Fetchmail, which discusses the use of fetchmail. It doesn't go into too much depth, more of a primer on fetchmail than anything. I think an upcoming tip will discuss procmail a little bit more.

I don't usually take much interest or stock in anything the ZD family of sites put out, but there was a decent piece I read tonight, entitled Ten things you can do to help open source. It's an interesting read, and I've read similar articles in the past. I always …

A little late to the party here, but I just finished watching Sicko, a film by Michael Moore. I'm still astounded by what I saw. I sincerely thank God that a) I'm a pretty healthy individual (lack of exercise and such aside) and b) that I live in Canada. I …

This week's TechMail is pretty basic, but one of those "hidden gems" that the average person probably isn't aware of. Of course, it's one that the average person may not care about either but... regardless, this week's techmail is Manipulate process priority with nice.

While working on the Mandriva maintainer's database, one thing needed is an authentication token as a very basic safety precaution. I couldn't figure out why it wasn't working and it looks like PHP's message digest hashing is off. Has anyone ever seen this before? Here's a quick demo:

% echo rpmctl …

This week's TechMail is Secure Connections to PostgreSQL which goes a little bit into the many different possible authentication methods you can use with the PostgreSQL database server, how it differs from MySQL, and illustrates why, at least from a security standpoint, I much prefer PostgreSQL (although I don't say …

Another Techrepublic tip is up, entitled Specify who can log in via OpenSSH. I love writing about OpenSSH... it's probably, weirdly enough, one of my favourite programs. I can't imagine not having it or even surviving one day (of work) without it. This tip talks about the PermitRootLogin and AllowUsers …

This week's TechMail is Define disk quotas to keep users from hogging drive space. Already the comments associated with it are amusing. I wonder where people get the idea that anyone (I mean, seriously, anyone) would pay some guy $2000/mo to be a "junior disk quota manager"... like it's …

This week's TechMail tip is Authentication caching with nscd which talks about how to keep authentication credentials cached for disconnected operations (i.e. if you auth against an LDAP server and it goes down or you take your laptop home).

It's missing some bits tho, which the first comment noted …

This week's TechRepublic tip is Configure GNU Screen to handle multiple terminals. Screen is an awesome program that works great on Linux on OS X. The tip is pretty much platform-agnostic; it works well for both Linux and OS X (I use it on both). The really great thing is …