Long have I been a fan of Slackware. It’s a wonderful distribution, fast, clean and free of much of the bulk and cruft that plagues other Linux distributions. Lately, though, I have not had a Slackware box on which to play, and that has bothered me. My main server currently runs Ubuntu server edition 7.04 […]
A quickie note about my use of the alpine email client lately. It came to my attention today that my emails were getting delivered with incorrect From and Reply-To addresses. Somehow alpine munges the smtp account holder user name you are using with the domain you specify in the config file as your default From […]
Because so many of you have asked: I mentioned last week on the show that I was digging once again using some text applications. Just for recap I am using screen, alpine, and bsflite regularly to get me going in the morning. Screen is a utility a person who uses the command line simpoly cannot […]
Episode 7 – “Virtualbox” – July 8, 2008 from thesourceshow on Vimeo. To stay that I have been busy this past year is kind of an understatment. It’s been a while since I have had the opportunity to catch up with some of my podcasts, and I did so this weekend. One of the ones […]
So it looks like Pat and I had the same idea this weekend. That is to play around with the new OpenSuse 11. Before I started, though, I needed a system I could install on. Live cd’s are great and all, but it’s just not the same as having the OS running on your real […]
I mentioned on the show on it’s last go round that I was looking for a port scan detector for work. At least I think I mentioned it was for work…. Anyhow, long ago I used to use a program called Portsentry, which still appears to be around, but in disuse. So, I went looking […]
OK, I mentioned before that Dann convinced me to try Openbox. Well I have been digging it so far, but I have found a couple other issues with using it under Ubuntu. I had been switching to it all along after having my laptops already running, so I didn’t notice until this weekend that when […]
At the behest of Dann, the other night I installed the Openbox windowmanager. I have to say I am pretty impressed with it so far. With no icons, task bar, etc., to clutter up your screen it leaves more realestate there for you to fill up with your favorite and more productive things. Not to […]
I am sure some of you have been wondering why I recently dropped off the face of the earth. Well, my company sent me to RedHat training last week. Now most of you know I have been “doing” Linux for a very long time. Some of you may recall that I used RedHt early on, […]
Ok. A lot of people have asked me about when I was going to write something to take advantage of my Tivo from my Linux box. Some have even called it a “BashPodder for Tivo”. While I haven’t quite gone that far yet, I have written a script to make getting things off of my […]