This week's TechMail is How to use Virtual Machine Manager on Fedora 11 which discusses my first foray into using Virtual Machine Manager and KVM. It's no surprise that I'm a big virtualization fan, but this is the first time I've used something baked directly into the Linux kernel. I've …

This week's TechMail is Secure remote firewall administration via SSH which talks about using ssh to create a secure tunnel to a remote network/system to use with configuring a remote firewall. I use this quite a bit with remotely-deployed pfSense boxen to configure it using the web interface and …

This week's TechMail is System monitoring with Conky which gives a quick introduction to the conky tool. I've come to like conky so much that I've replaced gkrellm by it. Really useful tool. If you use a mac, it's a lot like geektool (another tool I love), which is probably …

This week's Techmail is Setting up a dynamic DNS service part 2: dhcpd which wraps up the two part piece on setting up a dynamic DNS service, specifically covering dhcpd and tying it all together.

This past week's TechMail was Setting up a dynamic DNS service part 1: named which discusses setting up a local intranet dynamic DNS service. This is the first of two parts: the first deals with named, the second deals with dhcpd. I was put in a position where this had …

Ok, this time the word "fun" is sarcastic. I had it working this afternoon and couldn't figure out why it all of a sudden stopped working or... at least... subversion via kerberos. I was getting this error whenever I did a "svn ls http://svn.example.com/svn/anthill/ on …

This actually isn't a sarcastic title, for once. I'm actually having a blast fiddling with Kerberos these last few days. I was put into a position to do some kerberos debugging for work, so had to re-setup a kerberos realm at home to do the testing. Of course, at the …

This week was interesting, dealing with the supposed "OpenSSH 0day" vulnerability stuff... rumours, innuendo, strange logs and packet capture files... it made for a long week trying to keep an eye on this and sort fact from fiction. Instead of focusing on the issue itself like other blogs and news …

This week's TechMail is Hacking Vim covers the basics and reveals tips for power users, which is a book review of "Hacking Vim" by Packt Publishing. If you're a (serious/wanna-be) vim user, this is a really useful book to read. I learnt a lot of tricks from it.

This week's TechMail is Use Makefiles for more than handling source code which takes a quick look at how you can use make for more than just handling source code. The example provided uses make to update remote websites (which is moderately related to source code I guess), but shows …