I’ve maintained a blog for the previous ten, or so, years in one form or another. The first iteration was hosted on some platform that I don’t remember followed by WordPress (.com and self-hosted). I’ve grown weary of all the third-party stuff that gets brought in when …
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A response to 'Strong Encryption and Death'
I recently read an article on the TriLUG blog mirror discussing access to data after the death of the owner. I've also given this a lot of thought as well and had previously come to the same conclusion as the original author of the article has:
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CERN cares about information security... what about you?
As a security engineer it's usually difficult for me to endure many of dumb things companies do. It's quite sad when a company that prides itself on creating solutions for building internal solutions to protect customer data actually starts pushing its own data out to Google and other "solution" providers …
read moreSouthEast LinuxFest 2014 - Day One
After a crazy cab ride from the train station I arrived at a hotel that is in the general area of SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF) but not co-located. *sigh* This side of Charlotte isn't as pedestrian-friendly as it could be.
The first day (Friday) of SELF was pretty good. I generally …
read moreHow do you collaborate remotely?
Recently at my $dayjob the remote workers were asked what collaboration tools we used to get our work done. I thought this was a good topic and so I provided the following:
- IRC - This is the bread-and-butter tool for communicating with people inside and outside of my team. If I …
create-tx-configuration
Last week while publishing a new guide I ran into a problem creating the Transifex client configuration file (.tx/config). The configuration file is generally a hateful file that requires a lot of manual manipulation to add in all the POT files for translation. This file exponentially increases the hatefulness …
read moreGit access from within vim
Today a line was crossed. I'm not sure if it was the insanity of spending all day writing nine lines of Python (I am not a developer... I am not a developer... I am not a developer.) or what, but I really wanted to do git commands from within vim …
read moreOpen Source Libraries
An article on Opensource.com caught my attention today. The article focused on developing and using open source solutions in libraries. Libraries are one of the places where openness and sharing go hand-in-hand. Why more open source software solutions aren't found there I don't really understand.
Take my library for …
read morePetition to add more open source software to US schools
Earlier this morning I took a quick look on identi.ca to see what I had been missing. I was a bit surprised to see that someone had started a petition on the Whitehouse.gov website asking for more open source, specifically GPL-licensed, software to be included in our public …
read moreStarting work at Red Hat
I'm excited. Earlier this week I accepted a position at Red Hat working on a very cool project that has the ability to affect many open source, and not so open source, projects in a very positive way. The opportunity that I was presented was too good to turn away …
read moreMutt Configuration of GPG and From field
Mutt is one of those programs I have a love-hate relationship with: I hate to love it. It's flexibility and almost infinite configuration options makes this email client one of the best and worst to use. Once you get mutt configured you'll want to put the configuration file in the …
read moreFedora Amateur Radio Guide
Earlier today John WB8RCR and I released the Fedora Amateur Radio Guide. Depicting many of the programs available in Fedora's repositories, these free and open source software packages provides many tools to turn any amateur radio operator into a truly geeky operator.
John did a wonderful job putting together the …
read moreSouthEast LinuxFest - Day 3
Southeast LinuxFest Day Three started off with a... headache. Not a hangover but one of those random migraines that I've been trying to ward off with medications. It wasn't debilitating but it was annoying enough to keep me out of the Puppet Labs class.
I was able to hack on …
read moreSouthEast LinuxFest - Day 2
read moreDay two at SouthEast LinuxFest (SELF) began way too early as I had not received enough sleep. Of course this is a Linux conference; who really gets enough sleep during these things?
Ben had already setup the Fedora table in the conference area of the hotel so I helped with …
Southeast LinuxFest - Day 1
Day 1 of SELF was quite busy. Several Fedorians met for a FAD to discuss FUDCon finances. Ideas were hammered out and Max or Jared or ... should be posting details on that later.
After the finance talk, Jared and I got together and started hashing out a framework on the …
read moreSoutheast LinuxFest - Day 0
Joat and I left Virginia around 1PM, this afternoon, and made the drive down to Spartinburg for Southeast LinuxFest. Officially starting on Saturday, we came down a little early for classes that are happening on Friday and the FAD that I'll be participating in. I'm also hoping to get some …
read moreIPv6 up and running on Fedora
Setting up your (my) HP LaserJet 3055 Scanner
A couple of weeks ago I posted a message on identi.ca inquiring as to if anyone knew how to get my multi-function HP printer device to scan. I got a couple of responses but, unfortunately for me, these responses dealt with devices that were much nicer than mine.
Today …
read moreHow to efficiently publish 88 guides in 42 languages
Eighty-eight (88) guides in forty-two (42) languages comes out to be six hundred and thirty (630) guides that have been published, so far, to the Fedora Docs website. That includes everything from Fedora Core 1 to today. With the release of Fedora 14, earlier this month, we introduced twelve new …
read moreSetting up nVidia drivers
At work I always forget this so this is a technical note for myself. Maybe it will help you too?
- Run lspci to determine what controller you have.
- Visit the nVidia driver website and select your controller.
- Stop X (telinit 3)
- Download the file and chmod 500.
- Verify you have …
Dressed for success... I hope.
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[/caption]My wife, being the organized one in our household, believes that everything has a place and everything in its place. Items should also be labeled so that you know what they are, their purpose, and most importantly where …
read moreA better backup solution
When Fedora 13 hit the streets I was excited to see a new backup solution, Deja Dup, included in the distribution. For the past several months I've been using my own version of a backup solution, namely rsync rdiff-backup, which always felt a little cobbled together. But now I have …
read moreMy first TWUUG meeting...
Not since my last TriLUG meeting, several years ago, had I attended any kind of LUG meeting. Last night I decided to give my local UUG a go.
A friend of mind had told me about the Tidewater Unix User's Group (TWUUG) a couple of years ago but I put …
read moreFAD (Hackfest) @ SELF - Day 2
I was able to attend many talks during the second day of SELF and here are some of the information I gleamed from the discussions.
read moreIPv6The speaker on IPv6 was from ARIN. He was quite upfront with the situation regarding IPv4 addresses. In short, we should run out of …Thanks Seth!
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While I was out of town last week something arrived at my
house...Two Fedorians on a Northbound Train
So I'm sitting at the Staples Mill Rd, Richmond Amtrak Station waiting for the northbound 84 when none other than Seth Vidal walks up to me and says "do you work for Red Hat?" noticing the Shadowman hat I'm wearing. Maybe we should host a hackfest on the train!
Just …
read moreMy new WiFi Card
Microsoft for Apple leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
The school newspaper where my wife is a student reported yesterday that William and Mary would start giving students an option for what computer (and thus operating system) they could run. Apple will be coming to the campus starting this summer. I'm all about giving people an option away from …
read moreDOC v. PDF v. ODF... size wise
At my job we create very large documents for customers explaining how we are going to test their systems. These documents are usually a couple thousand pages long which means the files can also get pretty large.
I got curious to see how big the file would be based on …
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