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 …

I had asked on IRC the other day for info on how to send emails to bugzilla. Well, I found the actual specs for it on the bugzilla site. The documentation in the bugzilla tarball is a bit dated in this regard.

The only problem is that checksetup.pl is …

Just discovered something very interesting. I had all my websites setup on my machine with IP-based virtual hosts (i.e. ) and was trying to use wildcards (*:80) and it just wasn't working right the way I wanted it to, because I wanted some sites restricted to a certain IP, and …

I keep running into this issue everytime I have to run vmware tools so I thought I'd mention it here. vmware-tools insists on rewriting /etc/modprobe.conf and changing "alias sound-slot-0 snd-ens1371" to "alias sound es1371".

I have no idea why, but this keeps removing sound everytime I upgrade a …

Short of implementing some more error checking and making things a bit prettier, the "RPM Query Suite" is pretty much done. I've finished rqp, the counter-part to rqs. rqp imports the requires, provides, and file lists of binary rpm packages into a postgresql (or mysql, or sqlite (although I've only …

Just spent most of the day and quite a bit of yesterday porting a program Stew wrote for the secteam (called srpm) that builds a database of src.rpm files so you can do queries on source files (this is extremely useful for us in determining whether or not a …