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 …

I write these little things called TechMails for TechRepublic every month and this month I was looking at Konqueror and it's fish:// Kioslave stuff. I've never actually played with fish before, probably because I don't really like KDE and never use it but this stuff is pretty neat. I have …

Well, I've been on holidays for two weeks now, with just a little less than a week to go. Talk about busy vacations!

That first week I spent a fair amount of time working on Annvix just because I don't have time otherwise to really get in there and work …

Really... it is 2006 right? Email's been around for ages, so why are email clients still so crappy?

Last August I switched from the OS X Mail.app (in Tiger) to mutt because Tiger's Mail.app was too stinking slow. I get lots of mail... I mean lots of mail …

Ever seen that movie Swordfish with Hally Berry(sp?) and John Travolta? I like that movie. Appeals to me. Hackers... security... mmm... even if it is a little.. outlandish in parts. Anyways, my favourite scene is when he goes to the big house and sits in front of that computer …

I like to call this entry "The problem with incentives for new clients" or, the title I really like, "Why companies screw over the companies who've supported them for years".

In this particular instance I'm talking about Bell ExpressVu, my satellite provider. It's nice that, with more HD programming and …