I've got an idea in my head... my daughter goes to a private christian school, and my wife works as the secretary there. Unfortunately, they're married to Microsoft technology, and I doubt they even realize why they are. They're using an Active Directory-based authentication system and they keep having trouble …

Today's tip over at TechRepublic is Obtaining file information with RPM. Gives a bit of an overview of some of the commands you can use with rpm, regardless of which frontend you use (urpmi, apt, yum, etc.).

Another week, another tip, this one is Locate files with the find tool, a quick run-down on using find to... well... find stuff.

Another week, another TechMail tip. This week's is Learn to search with grep.

Well, I've decided to try and take the plunge and implement some GTD philosophies in my life. While it encompasses a lot of different things, the first thing I aim to try is to reclaim my email, which has been getting way out of hand lately. I remember about 2 …

New article on TechRepublic from yours truly about Configuring wireless support in Mandriva with ndiswrapper.

This comic from The Joy of Tech is awesome. Had to link it. It'll probably screw up the formatting on the page a bit, but is well worth it.

Well, I've been writing for TechRepublic for about 8 years now. I think I'm going to start linking the weekly tips to my blog here. For those interested, past tips (just tips, I think, not the full-blown articles) are available for perusal here.

So here's this week's tip:

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I read a very well-written and thought-provoking article the other day entitled "Windows is Free". It's a little tongue-in-cheek because "Free" here isn't free in the sense that we in the open source world view things... neither free as in beer nor free as in speech. Free as in pirated …

I've been really busy with a few side jobs this week, as well as regular work for Mandriva (playing catchup from a few days in Drumheller (Alberta's dinosaur capital) last week). However, last week I bought Guitar Hero II with the guitar controller when we got back from our little …