This week's TechMail is Install OpenVZ on CentOS to create a virtual container which discusses using the OpenVZ virtualization software. I have to admit, I've become extremely fond of OpenVZ. I stumbled upon it as the open source version of Virtuozzo which is used by a lot of VPS providers …

Well, maybe not but there's an interesting survey of college students that correlates Facebook usage with grades, and how people (keeping in mind this is just a survey, and there are no real conclusions by the authors) who spend more time on Facebook have lower grades. So, I come to …

This week's TechMail is Dodge the challenges of a dual-head display setup with Fedora 10 which discusses setting up a dual-head display on my Lenovo T61 and how insanely easy it ended up being... once I knew what I was doing. Truth be told, I haven't setup a dual-head display …

This week's TechMail is Use encrypted filesystems with Linux Logical Volume Manager which discusses how to setup LVM with encryption right at install-time. I'm finding for myself that having information, particularly on laptops, encrypted is becoming increasingly important to me. The nice thing with LVM and having the entire drive …

This week's TechMail is Get a stable and secure server setup with CentOS, RPMForge, and Utter Ramblings which talks about setting up extra repositories in CentOS. As was pointed out in the comments on that blog, I neglected to mention EPEL (in all fairness, when I wrote about it, I …

This week's TechMail is Converting Subversion repositories to Git. This is a small primer on how to migrate from using Subversion for version control to using Git instead. I'm still quite a big fan of subversion, but git is pretty cool too... I can definitely see the appeal of git …

Well, this past Thursday I got my 11th tattoo (although it only looks like I have 9 in total, two were to extend earlier tattoos). Every other tattoo was pretty good pain-wise... no big deal. This one wasn't too bad either, except in a few tender spots... base of the …

This week's TechMail is How does Ubuntu's Upstart system initialization compare with runit? which looks at the upstart system vs runit. I really like runit; so much in fact that with Annvix I rewrote the entire init system to take as much advantage of runit as possible and as a …

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Annvix is not coming back as an operating system like it used to be, but rather a repository of packages for RHEL/CentOS (currently just version 5). There is very little there right now: a new version of openssh and a new version of logwatch. It will …

This week's TechMail is Getting started with the yum package manager which goes into some of the basics of using yum. This was good reference for me coming from years of urpmi, so digging into the use of yum was a good exercise for how I'm going to be dealing …