Nix Bits

I found this article on installing Debian From Scratch fairly intresting. Lately I’ve been installing mepis as a Debian install for others. But for myself, I need something a bit more hands-on. The Debian install I have at home is getting really stale now so I am actually considering a re-install. Lots of folks think […]

Joey Hess wrote an article sometime back on how he maintains his entire home directory in cvs. He has updated it now to use subversion now. I’ve been using svn to maintain some projects myself and I liked Joey’s original concept. The only issues for me is that I sometimes use different profiles for some […]

LWN: Welcome to LWN.net excellent Linux news site Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters duh. How To Ask Questions The Smart Way Debian — The Universal Operating System my other favorite linux distribution Gentoo Linux — Gentoo Linux News One of my favorite distributions x11vnc: a VNC server for real X displays very useful […]

Everything is Crazy has published an article that asserts that ever increasing bandwidth will eventually overcome Microsoft’s Operating System monopoly. In other words, the application platform moves from the Operating System to the Internet itself. There is some evidence to support the notion that Operating Systems will matter less and less. Google’s Gmail is a […]

OpenBSD doesn’t have portupgrade like FreeBSD. Many OpenBSD users just take a snapshot of installed ports/packages by first running pkg_info and then deleting their package database as described in OpenBSD’s upgrade documentation. OpenBSD does offer a script though, to check what ports are out of date: /usr/ports/infrastructure/build/out-of-date. The script seems to work well for my […]

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cygwin, perl, ssh with X11 forwarding on a single cd. All of it runs from the cd too. Another CD for the toolkit. Get it here.

Sometime around the release of Firefox 1.0, the default use of Emacs-style keybindings in the URL bar was changed. Here’s how to put it back right. Also found a really handy feature for reading RSS/Atom feeds in Thunderbird. I like this much better than the Live bookmarks method employed by Firefox or the sidebar readers […]

Since this past summer, compromised machines have been attempting to brute force user accounts via ssh. Mostly this is annoying but it would be nice to detect and block these IPs. Francisco de Borja Lopez Rio made a Python script that watches /var/log/authlog on OpenBSD and adds IPs to a filter table for OpenBSD’s pf. […]

is the leading cause of wrong answers.” That’s what my .sig says. Here’s a well-written page on researching and asking technical questions. The insights esr provides can be applied in other ways as well. Click here for more.