With the coming release of Fedora 8, I needed to prep my desktop for the impending distribution upgrade. Since my desktop was running Fedora Core 6, I needed to bring it up to date to Fedora 7. This is the second time that I did an upgrade and it is also the second time that […]

Novell seems to have come to the conclusion that AppArmor might not be worth it’s money. At least they have dissolved the project and, as it seems, fired the team that has been working on it. The team around Crispin Cowan, one of the AppArmor-developers, said they won’t give up AppArmor, but it seems they […]

If you want to access a remote file system through ssh you need to install sshfs.sshfs is a filesystem client based on the SSH File Transfer Protocol. Since most SSH servers already support this protocol it is very easy to set up: i.e. on the server side there’s nothing to do. On the client side […]

I am now mourning the loss of my Rio Karma portable digital audio player which I have had for about 3 months. It’s 20GB with support for Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, MP3, and WMA. Unfortunately, it is quite fragile. I accidentally dropped it several times. After the first few, it skipped sometimes. One of the clips […]

VHCS delivers a complete hosting automation appliance by offering significant security, total-cost-of-ownership, and performance advantages over competing commercial solutions With VHCS Pro you can configure your server and applications, create user with domains with a few point-and-click operations that take less than a minute. There is no limit to the number of resellers, users and […]

Whether you consider it an advantage or a disadvantage standard configuration dialogs in GNOME tend to be a bit limited and because of that do not allow all kinds of behavior customizations that one may desire to do. It is done that way in order to maximize ease of use and user friendliness. For deeper […]

After my previous two posts about SELinux and AppArmor, “Stupid advice and some of my own ideas” and Rusty AppArmor?, another post of the same topic. I had another look around for information on AppArmor and of course also followed a link leading directly to Novell where I found a Novell’s AppArmor and SELinux comparison. Well, […]

An excellent tutorial on free commandline tools that help improve your writing. There’s more to it than spellchecking. (free IBM account required)

Recently I came across the command Ctrl-R in the bash shell. It allows you to search and browse your bash history. For instance you ssh into your server every day, in between each ssh you do a bunch of other things, this makes in impractical to use the Up arrow key to go through your […]

While using Gtk+ based applications you can use the middle mouse button on the scrollbar to move directly to that point, instead of moving to the point a page at a time.