I don't usually take much interest or stock in anything the ZD family of sites put out, but there was a decent piece I read tonight, entitled Ten things you can do to help open source. It's an interesting read, and I've read similar articles in the past. I always …

A little late to the party here, but I just finished watching Sicko, a film by Michael Moore. I'm still astounded by what I saw. I sincerely thank God that a) I'm a pretty healthy individual (lack of exercise and such aside) and b) that I live in Canada. I …

Well, to put it bluntly, Safari butchers the visual editor in WordPress. No idea why. Really irritating, but on a whim I fired up both Camino and Firefox to do some edits and they worked fine. Then I disabled the visual editor in my account profile and lo-and-behold Safari doesn't …

This week's TechMail is pretty basic, but one of those "hidden gems" that the average person probably isn't aware of. Of course, it's one that the average person may not care about either but... regardless, this week's techmail is Manipulate process priority with nice.

While working on the Mandriva maintainer's database, one thing needed is an authentication token as a very basic safety precaution. I couldn't figure out why it wasn't working and it looks like PHP's message digest hashing is off. Has anyone ever seen this before? Here's a quick demo:

% echo rpmctl …

The cool thing about Guitar Hero III is that you can view stats online. This is nice because the stat-viewer in the game sucks compared to Guitar Hero II. Anyways, here's the link to my Guitar Hero statistics.

On a side note, I've found that in some ways GH3 is …

This week's TechMail is Secure Connections to PostgreSQL which goes a little bit into the many different possible authentication methods you can use with the PostgreSQL database server, how it differs from MySQL, and illustrates why, at least from a security standpoint, I much prefer PostgreSQL (although I don't say …

Another Techrepublic tip is up, entitled Specify who can log in via OpenSSH. I love writing about OpenSSH... it's probably, weirdly enough, one of my favourite programs. I can't imagine not having it or even surviving one day (of work) without it. This tip talks about the PermitRootLogin and AllowUsers …

I had the privilege today of getting to play with Leopard Server a little bit (the new OS X 10.5 server). I can honestly say it's extremely "wow". It's got a slick interface to configuring things like DNS, DHCP, apache, Open Directory (which is essentially OpenLDAP+Kerberos) and some …

This week's TechMail is Define disk quotas to keep users from hogging drive space. Already the comments associated with it are amusing. I wonder where people get the idea that anyone (I mean, seriously, anyone) would pay some guy $2000/mo to be a "junior disk quota manager"... like it's …