Last year I wrote about my 20 minutes with OS X Leopard server. This week I had the opportunity, and the obligation, to spend a bit more time with it. Next month I'm converting an office that's currently using Windows and Exchange for an OS X-based solution. There will be …

I came across this great article today entitled Linux is Not Windows. This is a fantastic post that breaks down why people should stop comparing Linux to Windows and what newbies can do to make their Linux experience more enjoyable as well as not piss off existing Linux users. =) It's …

This one is over a month old and got lost in my inbox, so I'm posting it now. A month ago's TechMail was Dig for more data in the /proc directory which pretty much shows some ways of mining for info in the /proc pseudo-filesystem.

Last week's TechMail was Chroot users with OpenSSH: An easier way to confine users to their home directories which discusses the new chroot capabilities of newer openssh. Chrooted sftp is very very cool and a welcome addition to openssh, although it would be neat if chrooting shell logins could be …

And finally, this last week's Techmail was Send mail with eSMTP for a simple, single-user system which discusses using eSMTP to send email instead of setting up a full-blown postfix or exim or whatever server.

Haven't been keeping up with the TechMails, so here's the last three works worth. This one is entitled Use Fuse to mount remote ssh directories and it discusses how to use Fuse (user-space filesystem) to mount remote ssh directories as "local" filesystems. Extremely useful stuff.

As I was poking around the Amazon website to find the name of a certain Venom album I had owned when I was younger, I cam across an amusing forum thread entitled What is the best band of the 80's, in the metal forum. Presumably they would be discussing metal …

Now that people have let me know where that OpenSSL comic came from, I've been looking at xkcd.com more this morning and found one that is utterly priceless and totally reminds me of me. If you have time to kill, I suggest checking the site out but in the …

Has anyone encountered this, or more specifically, know how to fix it?

I'm using gmail to host my linsec.ca mail, and accessing it via POP3 (fetchmail->procmail->mutt). When I send mail out, I send it out via gmail's SMTP server. The problem is that I never see what …

Found another good comic inspired by the Debian OpenSSL issue (no, it will never get too old for me). Forget where I came across this one though... just saw it in my downloads folder as I was doing some cleaning up. It's quite funny though, because it also pokes at …