I’m done with cars, they are just too complicated. (satire of ZDNet’s “Done with Linux, going back to Windows”)
Thanks to Michael Hall, who wrote a very funny article titled “If Linux was a car (Hater’s edition)” as a
28
Oct
TIL – Linux – getting around “operation not permitted”
Today we had a strange corrupted file end up on one of our backup servers, and was not allowing any kind of chown or rm
19
Oct
Uh oh – Pidgin stores passwords in plain text in accounts.xml
Funny thing we found out at work today: Pidgin, which is a multi-protocol chat client I’ve been using for years and
26
Jul
Michigan Linux Job – Monroe, MI
Figured I’d post this here in case anyone is looking for a Linux job. I’m happy at my current position, and
27
Jun
Bash script to take regular screenshots
UPDATE (06/22/11): Modified the below script to allow two arguments, start time and end time, so there aren’t useless
21
Jun
TIL – IPTables “tar pit” option
Update: A little slow on the ball here, but I found out today that Fedora requires the xtables-addon package to be installed
03
Jun
TIL – easy blocking of brute force attempts using fail2ban
[root@webl001t log]# grep -i 'auth.*fail' secure | wc -l 30909 [root@webl001t log]# ls -la secure -rw------- 1 root root
01
Jun
Fedora 14 to 15 Beta preupgrade fail
A few minutes I excitedly opened up the preupgrade program on my web server (this system) and downloaded all of the metadata
28
Apr
Using YUM to only apply security updates
Useful link to only apply security updates to RHEL and
28
Apr
Getting the ATI TV Wonder 600 USB to work in Linux (Fedora 14)
About a year ago I got a good deal on an ATI TV Wonder 600 USB TV Tuner ($20 of woot.com), which I was pretty excited about.
12
Feb
