Due to an issue that the 2.6.17+ kernel exemplified, all of the sites I host (annvix.org, linsec.ca, danen.ca, etc.) have been unavailable to anyone using a 2.6.17+ kernel due to a change in the way TCP window scaling was implemented, which has been …

On IRC last night I was pointed to a new secure linux distro... this one simply called Hardened Linux. The individual whom I was speaking with ("Intensity") was wondering why there needed to be YASLD (Yet Another Secure Linux Distro). Interested, I was reading through the page to see if …

Found this really nice patch for mutt today, it's a sidebar patch that adds a list of mailboxes to your mutt view so you can see which mailboxes has new mail in it, the current count of messages in each, etc.

All I can say is very very nice! This …

Someone posted on the expert@ mailing list a very interesting link to a fellow who ran a series of benchmarks on different Linux filesystems over a year ago (Jan 2006). It was in the Linux Gazette and shows some very interesting stats. Granted, this was with the 2.6.14 …

It's been nearly a year in the works, but the next version of Annvix is out (2.0-RELEASE). You can read the (relatively short) "PR" on the Annvix blog announcement.

Anyways, I'm just happy it's done with. Trying to get this release out in a timely fashion, with all the …

Was banging my head with this trying to figure it out a few times and figured I'd post the solution here.

Due to googlebot and the load it was generating on my server at the colo, I had to move svn.annvix.org from my primary webserver to a spare …

Having some issues with screen. I've been running mutt under screen for a few weeks now (and irssi) which has been working fine but it wasn't until today that I put two and two together, namely that when I cut-n-paste from a terminal with mutt in it, I was getting …

I understand I volunteered for the job (it's a dirty job and I think very few people would want to do it) but boy am I glad it's done. I've just spent nearly two weeks converting content from the Mandriva development wiki (http://qa.mandriva.com/twiki/bin/view/Main …

Well, I've decided that since it's been over a month now and no one has decided yet on what software to use (apparently there's one hold-out for xwiki while everyone else wants mediawiki... hello... VETO!), I've decided to make it monumentally in mediawiki's favor by cramming so much bloody content …

Sigh. I love it when things get thrown out of context and misinformation abounds. I've gotten used to this with proprietary vendors and ignorant news sources, but to get this within the open source community? And from a web site that is supposed to be pro-OSS? Come on.

Yes, this …