Last week's mac techmail was Still frustrated with Apple Mail searching which gives some of the reasons, and some possible workarounds, to the awful search capabilities in Apple Mail. For a mail client today, it sure doesn't offer very much power for email searching, yet on the Mac it's one …

Last week's techmail was Tips and tricks to help you do more with OpenSSH which is a followup to the previous tip that talked about OpenSSH key management. This one gives you a few one-liner tips to stimulate the imagination (yet are useful on their own) with the kinds of …

A member from my local LUG posted this, and it's a gem. Highly amusing, especially for anyone that considers themself a hacker and wants to see what the defining characteristics of a hacker was 10 years ago. Whether this was something serious or something tongue in cheek, it's an amusing …

So the RPM Query (rq) tool that I inherited as 'srpm' from Stew Benedict back in the day at Mandriva is now on fedorahosted,org. Unfortunately, it's missing history because I had a dickens of a time trying to extract it from my existing svn repo (I got it so …

This week's techmail is What you need to know about OpenSSH key management which looks at a few tips and tricks in using OpenSSH public/private keys. It talks about generating keys, using ssh-copy-id to copy keys to servers, and using hashed representations of host keys to obscure what machines …

Last week's techmail was Create a local Fedora mirror system and get blazing-fast updates which shows you how to use the Fedora mirror manager and associated tools to setup a local private (or public, if you wanted) mirror of Fedora. It's really quite slick and since I was keeping a …

Last week's TechMail was Review of the new Komodo IDE 6: Great new features, one gripe which is a review of the latest version of ActiveState's Komodo IDE. I've been using Komodo on and off for years, but have really been using it the last few years now that I'm …

This week's techmail is The most important updates in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. Disclaimer: I didn't give it that title. =) It mostly looks at the security features of RHEL6 and what makes it compelling (to me, who is more concerned about security than pretty much anything else) as a …

Last week's TechMail was Enhance screen with Byobu's cool functionality which looks at using Byobu to spruce up GNU screen. Byobu adds some nice color and character to screen, and is definitely worth looking into if you use screen a lot.

This week's techmail was Kerberos authentication with NFSv4 which looks at how to get more security out of NFS. By using Kerberos. I'm not sure if this is the definition of insane for a home network or not, but since I've got Kerberos running here already, I keep trying to …