Free Linux Box is a website that tries to connect individuals who want to give away fully functional computers running open source software to individuals who need a computer, free of cost. The website showcases computers that are in need of homes. In order to qualify for listing the computer must fit the following qualifications: […]
Oh boy. So what have I been doing since last we talked? Let me tell you… I have been doing multiple Linux installations on my Acer Aspire One. That being said, this post is going to be more a rant that anything else. Now don’t get me wrong, I really dig that little AAO netbook. […]
There was some discussion about this a couple weeks ago with Beth Lynn Eicher in a TLLTS episode. That discussion was maybe the 4th or 5th time I heard the idea. After sitting on it a while I decided to register the domain http://freelinuxbox.org and I am hoping that some of you fine folks will […]
For a couple years now I have been running a headless (broken) IBM Thinkpad T23 laptop as my home server. It has served it’s new function admirably. Initially, I had thought that maybe there would be a heat issue so I stuck it on a fan plate, but it has been running 2 years with […]
Ahh, there heresy! Yup, I finally got off my butt and bought a new laptop and IT’S A MAC! A Macbook 5,2, dual core 2ghz, initially with 2gb of ram. How can this be, you may ask. I thought you are a Linux guy! Well, rest assured, I still am. Although I am no Apple […]
Yessiree Bob. Ossec has released v2. Go and grab it now. One of the really exciting new features it’s supposed to have is clientless monitoring. I can’t wait to try that out! Most of you know that I run Ossec on a *lot* of systems. Almost every box I run at home and at work […]
I can’t believe it’s been so long since I have put anything in here, interesting or not. I Am sure now that I have noticed, there will be the usual deluge of posts catching you all up, so beware. Over the past weekend, for some reason, I decided that it had been long enough in […]