Last week's Techmail was Manage dotfile configuration with subversion which goes into use subversion to manage all those pesky little .foo files in $HOME. It uses a combination of subversion and make to handle it and works quite well, although the Makefile could probably be tweaked to be less annoying …

This week's TechMail is Two hours (and counting) with an upgrade to Fedora 11, in which I describe my initial experience with the upgrade of my laptop from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11. All-in-all, the upgrade was good and has worked great. I have no complaints, except for two little …

This week's TechMail is Use tabs to open multiple files in vim which pretty much discusses how to use tabs in vim so you can have multiple files open at once. Using some nice key mapping, you can navigate tabs with simple keystrokes and have vim act like any good …

Last night I attained "Legendary Status" on Rock Band by doing the never ending setlist (84 songs), on the drums, on hard (not good enough to do more than a handful on expert). It took me about 30hrs to accomplish (left the xbox on overnight hoping it wouldn't fry).

Talk …

This week's TechMail is Create custom keybindings in vim which goes into how to tweak vim's keybindings to make them more familiar if you come from another editor. It's also useful to create shortcuts for things such as moving to the end of a line. I've been using joe for …

Read an interesting piece on Lifehacker that pointed to an article entitled Working From Home: 10 Unconscious Cues to Create a Work-Life Balance. Being a remote worker for Red Hat, and before that Mandriva, I've worked full-time at home for about 10 years now. (Man, I feel old!)

Anyways, there …

This week's TechMail is Gain fine control in OpenVZ with resource management which discusses how to setup and manipulate resource management in OpenVZ. As with any other virtualization solution, OpenVZ allows you to assign resources to your containers so they cannot exceed them and consume inappropriate amounts of memory, CPU …

This week's TechMail is Create an OpenVZ container which discusses how to create your own OpenVZ container using pre-built templates. I've really fallen in love with OpenVZ; I find it much simpler and much faster than VMware or other full virtualization solutions. It's a real shame that it doesn't work …

Yeah, this is one of those sappy posts. But I like to think it's worth the few minutes of my time to write it, and it's something I've really noticed and I'd like to share my appreciation.

I've made it past my first 90 days at Red Hat and I …

This week's TechMail is Create your own yum repository which pretty much discusses the createrepo tool and how to use it to create your own custom yum repository. Handy little tool; this came about when I was figuring out how to make a yum repository for my Annvix packages.