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 […]
My wife just snapped this pic of my dog Precious on her cameraphone and sent it to me. How could anyone not love that face?
One of the applications I have been working on at work is RackSpace. Basically, it’s an application that helps track rackmounted servers and equipment and their placement, power, vlan and BTU usage in a datacenter. Of course, this started out as one of those deals where there just wasn’t a utility available that did exactly […]
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 […]
Seventeen years ago, when I was much younger but still very good looking, I came home from a visit to the animal shelter with a surprise. My soon to be wife wanted to know why there was a lump in my jean jacket making a faint meyowing sound. It was a little black kitten that […]
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, […]