This week's techmail is Introduction to SELinux: Don't let complexity scare you off. This is the first of a three-part series that introduces SELinux and digs into some of the basics on how to change policies, add policies, troubleshoot SELinux, and basically give you enough info to not feel intimidated …

This week's mac techmail was Enhance security on your Mac with Hands Off! which is a neat security tool for OS X. I've been using Little Snitch for years, and Hands Off! is quite similar except that it provides more features and functionality, including the ability to protect files and …

Last week's techmail was Hack the D-Link DNS-323 to get an array of Linux server options. I bought one of these things quite a while ago to use more as a backup box than anything else (in case of fire, small NAS is easier to carry than big computer cases …

Last week's Mac techmail was Use Fake to automate web testing on the Mac which takes a look at a neat app for the Mac called Fake. This app is similar to Automator, except instead of automating desktop-related tasks, it automates web-related tasks. With it you can automate web submissions …

Last week's mac techmail was Choosing the right Git GUI client for Mac OS X in which I looked at the Tower application, a Git GUI client for OS X. I've looked at a few Git clients for OS X and Tower was my application of choice amongst the contenders …

This week's techmail was Redundancy and flexibility with RAID1+LVM which talks about how to combine RAID1 with LVM for a few rich, flexible storage management solution. The tip describes how to get started with setting up RAID and LVM (although here's a hint: the Anaconda installer makes this an …

Last week's techmail was Printing to AirPort shared printers from Linux, which looks at how to configure a Linux system to print directly to an AirPort shared printer. This is actually quite easy to do, as the tip explains, but it's not overly straightforward (hence the need for said tip …

I’m a little behind on putting up my recent Mac articles for TechRepublic here, so I’m going to put them all in one post.

The first is Introduction to OS X Access Control Lists (ACLs) which introduces you to OS X's implementation of filesystem access control lists. OS …

I'm a little behind on putting up my recent articles for TechRepublic here, so I'm going to put them all in one post.

The first one is Use Getting Things GNOME to get things done which looks at Getting Things GNOME (GTG), a GTD application for GNOME. It's pretty basic …

The mac techmail from a few weeks ago was How to use CrashPlan for online backups, which looks at getting the CrashPlan client setup on OS X. CrashPlan is pretty neat: you can pay to store your backups on CrashPlan's servers in the cloud, or you can use the client …