This week's TechMail is Configure Apache to support multiple SSL sites on a single IP address which talks about the new SNI (Server Name Indication) feature in Apache 2.2.12. This is a really welcome feature as previously if you wanted more than one SSL-secured site, you needed more …

And this week's mac techmail is about one of my all-time favourite applications: Optimize your Mac experience with the LaunchBar multitasker. Launchbar is probably the first thing I install after the OS itself. I've been using it for years and can't live without it. It actually makes me sad that …

Last week's mac techmail was Get system display options with GeekTool for the Mac. GeekTool is one of my favourite tools for the mac. Kinda like Conky on Linux, but more flexible since you can have multiple windows all over the place doing various things (i.e. my GeekTool shows …

This week's TechMail is Setting up a Cisco VPN connection with Network Manager which shows just how easy it is to setup Fedora to connect to a Cisco VPN using Network Manager (other distros too, I suppose). Also mentions OpenVPN as well. At any rate, this is an introduction to …

This week's TechMail is Using Corkscrew to tunnel SSH over HTTP which talks about creating an SSH tunnel using HTTP and the Corkscrew tool. Very cool and interesting stuff. Fortunately I've never been in such a restrictive environment where I've needed to use it, but it's good to know in …

Ok, I've just updated my Fedora Planet config so that only stuff in the Linux category (and sub-categories, like "Red Hat") will show up on Planet. Sorry if you felt I was spamming Planet with non-Linuxy stuff, I wasn't really thinking about breaking it down further to just having on-topic …

Last week's mac TechMail is Use The Hit List to get things done with Mac, which talks about using The Hit List as a task manager. It works quite well with the GTD methodology, although it's not necessarily geared towards it (you can use THL without following GTD). It's a …

No, I'm not throwing one although it would be amusing... sad thing is, I'm geekish and all my friends know it, and a large majority of them (also sadly) use Windows yet I think if I threw a Windows 7 house party... no one would show. I'm quite certain all …

This week's TechMail is Get network versatility with SSH tunneling and netcat which talks about using netcat as a proxy tool to bounce transparently through a bastion host to a secure end point. It's not something that you may use a lot, but if you need to be able to …

Blogging has been on my short list the last two weeks. Yesterday the contractor we hired finally finished putting up new insulation and vinyl siding on the house, and I have to admit he did a fantastic job and it looks bloody sharp. Pics to come (the eavestrough isn't up …