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I recently installed Linux Mint (ubuntu with some goodies) on a laptop and wanted an encrypted whole disk. In order for this to be truly secure, you need encrypted swap. Well most of the HOWTOs for encrypting swap use a randomized key. This breaks hibernate to disk for laptops because the linux kernel has no […]

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 […]

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.

Way back in 2001, Barry McCormick and I wrote up this document and taught a two session class for NOLUG on the basics of TCP/IP. Looking at my web stats lately and after doing some googling about, I’ve found it’s quite a popular download. Since my site has been rearranged often, I’m just posting this […]

Enterprise network admins are probably familiar with Cisco’s HSRP which allows for router redundancy and VRRP for firewall redundancy. This article describes a way to achieve the same thing using features in the upcoming OpenBSD 3.5 release . Other commercial firewalls certainly have similar capability. However, OpenBSD’s feature set is becoming rather compelling. Smaller businesses […]

This is a truly rediculous patent. Apparently a company called ideaflood.com has managed to patent subdomains. *boggle* So if I decide to set up, say, Jennifer.scottharney.com, I’m supposed to pay a licensing fee to this company. How did they get this patent in the first place? Christopher Falkowski, a legal specialist in these topic areas […]

I like to use album to make my picture albums The command to generate the static picture pages is: ~scotth/album/album.pl -medium 50% -medium_type -known_images -theme ../album/Themes/Blue once i’m in a directory full of pictures. Makes it simple, really.

I have decided to start using my GPG key again to sign emails and such. It’s a good thing to use encryption and digital signature technology. Consequently, I’ve gone ahead and posted my key here

I use Blosxom to run this here blog. It’s simple to set up and does everything I need. And it also means I can write entries in a text editor “like God intended”. I looked at some of the various blog services but those didn’t interest me. I have an apache server and a domain […]

Pics from this year’s Barkus parade are up. Barkus is a parade just for dogs benefitting the Louisiana SPCA. There are 1500 dogs in the parade. It is enormous and great fun. We had beautiful weather and enjoyed dressing up as Elvis and his Memphis Mafia to complent the parade’s “TailHouse Rock” theme.