I've got a lot of trees in my backyard... specifically, about 6 really huge pine trees that I'd love to get rid of. Unfortunately, do to how they are and how the layout of my place is, I can't pull them down easily... either they'll go into power lines or …

A friend sent me a link to cartoon about the powers of sudo. All hail sudo!

I'm a huge fantasy nut... one of my biggest hobbies is reading. I love reading fantasy books; I have for years. I own a few hundred fantasy books and buy at least 1-2 books a month.

One author that I've always found interesting is David Eddings. He's not the most …

The web cracks me up. I've been writing for TechRepublic for about 6-7 years now, and every month I write these little tips called "TechMails". They don't pay a whole lot, but I enjoy doing it as it gives me a reason to look at new and different things, which …

I'm depressed. I used to look forward to playing with beta releases and new versions of distros. I've even been known to buy copies of distros just to check them out (well, I've bought SUSE and YellowDog and downloaded the rest... particularly because those ones were available locally).

After having …

I read with great amusement a blog entry from Bryan O'Bryan entitled Why I ditched my Mac for Linux and some of the comments (no time to read them all; perhaps later). Instead of leaving a comment there and having it lost in the 100+ comments, I decided to respond …

This is kind of funny but as I was going through my CVE mails to figure out what needs to be patched, I came across CVE-2006-3244, with this reference: http://secunia.com/advisories/20838. Actually, Secunia has some nice statiscs (I should look at some other programs because these charts …

I've taken the last week of June "off" from doing updates to look into RSBAC and AppArmor because I'm not convinced that the Mandriva implementation of RSBAC will be user-friendly or transparent, nor very "out-of-the-box". This was the result of my asking why we are persisting with RSBAC (which can …

I get a lot of people asking me why, when it comes to my own servers, Annvix, and my own personal recommendations to people who ask what kernel to use, I whole-heartedly do not recommend the 2.6 kernel and instead advocate the stability and greater security of the 2 …

I have this shiny new HP media PC to play with (well, setup really) and I installed Mandriva 2006/x86_64 on it last night and was somewhat disappointed with how it turned out. The big issue was with the proprietary ATI drivers which, to my amazement, weren't in commercial Club …