The Canadian national do not call list is up which basically prevents telemarketers from phoning you, by registering your phone number(s) in the registry. All I can say is "about damn time".

Anyways, if you're Canadian and as annoyed by those yahoo telemarketers as me, you may want to …

This week's TechMail is Control Apache with the apachectl command which pretty much gives a brief primer of the different commands and cool things you can do with apachectl to control Apache.

This week's TechMail is Consider these Linux file management alternatives which discusses three alternatives to the "traditional" file managers (namely Nautilus and Konqueror). It discusses Midnight Commander, Gentoo, and Krusader (and to be honest, I really liked playing with Krusader... mc is an old hat for me, but Krusader was …

"Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behaviour. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behaviour." -- Dee Hock

I'm reading David Allen's Getting Things Done book and this quote really stuck out at me. Totally true. I know a few people to whom …

Last week's TechMail was Try command-line looping for added efficiency which discusses using loops in the shell to iterate over a number of items while using particular commands (i.e. for loops in the shell). Extremely useful stuff if you've ever needed to repeat something without wanting to hit the …

Was poking around and found some amusing "get a mac" ads on YouTube, done SouthPark style:

South Park Mac vs PC

South Park Mac vs PC vs Linux

OMG... YouTube is scary. You should check out this fellow trying to explain Why Linux is Better Than Windows. I think this …

I've spent the entire day yesterday and another day last week working on migrating the current Mandriva bugzilla 3.0.5 to the new 3.2rc1. You won't see it anywhere official until 2009.0 is released most likely, but having (some) spare time, I wouldn't to put it through …

This week's TechMail is Expanding text with Snippits in Linux, which discusses using Snippits (a ruby app) to do text expansion. Unfortunately, I went hunting for something that worked as well as Typinator or TextExpander on OS X and this was the only thing that seemed to come close. Not …

Last week's TechMail was Send messages and alerts from the command line which discusses using the mail and wall commands. Two very simple, yet infinitely useful, programs.

A recent post from Russ Coker entitled AppArmor is Dead was tolling the death bells for AppArmor because SUSE decided to include SELinux in their operating system... not as the default, and not as a replacement for AppArmor, but it was included nonetheless. Russ determined that this was the beginning …