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 …

This week's techmail is Set up easy file sharing with NFS on Linux which is a quick primer on getting NFS setup quickly on Linux.

This week's techmail is How to set up an OpenVPN server which is a quick-n-dirty primer on how to get OpenVPN setup. Insider's tip: it's part 1 of a 3 part series about fairly basic OpenVPN configuration and usage (OpenVPN has got a lot of neatness and frustration under the …

Last week's techmail was Enable spell-checking in Vim and customize default behavior which talks about how to get spell checking enabled in vim. I actually wasn't even aware that vim could do spell checking natively until a little while ago, and it sure makes for my use of it with …

The techmail of two weeks ago was The easiest way to set up Samba for file-sharing which discusses a really quick way of getting Samba setup for filesharing. It doesn't go into all the details of setting up multiple users or different authentication types, but if you want to share …

I realized today, after having a conversation with someone at work about gpg keys and rpm support, that I haven't updated my GPG key in about 6 years.

Then I realized I harped on CERT not too long ago about not doing things right. =) Granted, my key hasn't been compromised …