I have this shiny new HP media PC to play with (well, setup really) and I installed Mandriva 2006/x86_64 on it last night and was somewhat disappointed with how it turned out. The big issue was with the proprietary ATI drivers which, to my amazement, weren't in commercial Club …

I write these little things called TechMails for TechRepublic every month and this month I was looking at Konqueror and it's fish:// Kioslave stuff. I've never actually played with fish before, probably because I don't really like KDE and never use it but this stuff is pretty neat. I have …

I find it amusing that so many people "new" to Linux and other open source programs think we're all a bunch of arrogant, caffeine-strung, egomaniacs. I've been lightly reading (and laughing about) a thread on the exim mailing list entitled "Why is this list so abusive?" because some people are …

I moved all the Annvix-related blog entries to the new Annvix Developer's Blog since I'm "consolidating" all Annvix-related stuff there. That means this blog will be "Annvix clean" (at least as far as technical-ish stuff goes).

Just a heads up in case you wonder why a) a category was removed …

I've been reading one of the most useless threads on Cooker (the mailing list) I've seen yet. Entitled "CasElOVeRs" it's a... errr... "discussion" regarding the changing of all package names to lowercase for package names. And judging by the size of this thread, everyone has an opinion.

My only question …

I've been embarking on a bit of a project since Jan when someone from Groklaw was asking about what vulns we released last year affected a certain distribution and the only way I could get her that info was by doing some convoluted grepping and re-formatting... it wasn't pretty, but …

Found this fantastic article about how to setup Subversion, MediaWiki, and Bugzilla to be nicely integrated. The article is really well done, and I've adapted most of it to the Annvix wiki and bugzilla, but the subversion integration will be a little problematic (or at least not as full as …

Was just reading this article on linux.com about some guy's sysadmin toolbox. Yeah, the tools were ok and nothing much different from what I use except for some of the desktop-ish stuff he uses. What got me though was the first comment that was made. Vim has text folding …

I just read an amusing article on Government Computer News entitled Security wars: Novell SELinux killer rattles Red Hat. I find it amusing because now that Novell owns AppArmor, and has made it public (GPL), it's starting to rattle some SELinux-based cages (for those not in the know, Novell aquired …

Well, having a RAID1 setup on this server has saved my a$$ in a huge way. Yesterday I started getting notifications of a smart failure on one of the drives (I have two configured as a RAID1 across a few partitions). So I went down to the colo to swap …