Another week, another TechMail tip. This week's is Learn to search with grep.

New article on TechRepublic from yours truly about Configuring wireless support in Mandriva with ndiswrapper.

Well, I've been writing for TechRepublic for about 8 years now. I think I'm going to start linking the weekly tips to my blog here. For those interested, past tips (just tips, I think, not the full-blown articles) are available for perusal here.

So here's this week's tip:

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I read a very well-written and thought-provoking article the other day entitled "Windows is Free". It's a little tongue-in-cheek because "Free" here isn't free in the sense that we in the open source world view things... neither free as in beer nor free as in speech. Free as in pirated …

After a few really long weeks, bugzilla is finally live. It's about bloody time. Of course, now that it's live, there are even more requests to do stuff.

Oh well. Par for the course I guess. However, I'm seriously considering taking the next two days off to recover some of …

The bugzilla conversion is almost complete, except for a few minor issues that need to be figured out (such as who will be owning the bugs initiall when they are submitted). And a few minor cosmetics. Head on over to bugzilla.linsec.ca and check it out. Constructive feedback is …

Well, someone else was supposed to be working on the new bugzilla, but they got pulled off for an OEM project (completely understandable), so since I really need some functionality and speed out of bugzilla to progress with some work flows I have in mind, I decided to hunker down …

Came across this good HOWTO on HowtoForge entitled The Perfect Desktop: Mandriva 2007 Spring Free (Mandriva 2007.1). Pretty good write up, although there's too many pictures for my liking. I guess that makes a good visual HOWTO tho. Goes into detail on how to setup the PLF archives, install …

Been messing around with OpenVPN today since I had some time and it's a little frustrating. There's some tutorials out there, but they're all pretty terse... most of the stuff it's almost assumed that you already know. Anyways, used the church I go to since I have access to one …

I've never really played with Solaris before. I've looked at it once or twice, briefly, but that was about it. The other day I downloaded a vmware image for Nexenta GNU/OpenSolaris, one of these OpenSolaris-based distributions that apparently uses a lot of GNU software.

My first impressions are this …