I don’t know where this came from, but if anyone can take credit, please let me know!

Posted in blog entries Comments Off

UPDATE – for VPN on Hardy Heron, see my new post here Ubuntu makes it simple to connect to a Microsoft Windows VPN server at your workplace with NetworkManager and the pptp plugin. Luckily for us Ubuntu users, the right tools are just a couple of clicks or commands away. The first step is to [...]

Posted in blog entries 51 Comments »

The Linux Documentation Project — This site is the product of years and years of combined knowledge. From HOWTOs on how to set up a software RAID, to Linux Clustering, this is the place to start when you’re not sure how to accomplish something. LinuxQuestions.org — LQ has a huge community with distro and purpose-specific [...]

Posted in blog entries 3 Comments »

A friend pointed out to me Google’s odd, but sensible, convention of alternating street names.  I street is also spelled on Google Maps as “Eye St.” Eye chuckled.  Oh, man that was bad…

Posted in blog entries Comments Off

ASCII screenshot: ____________ ( return to ) ( craigslist ) ( homepage? ) ————- O O ^__^ o (oo)_______ (__) )/ ||—-w | || || When specifying a non-existent URL, craigslist.org throws this as an error page. Brilliant! Reference here for the uninitiated.

Posted in blog entries 2 Comments »

obligatory Big Lebowski quote… The Dude: Fuckin’ Quintana… that creep can roll, man. Walter Sobchak: Yeah, but he’s a pervert, Dude. Yeah, he’s a pervert. But at least he can go to church where he bowls. I was in West Virginia when I saw this a couple of weekends ago and couldn’t believe my eyes. [...]

Posted in blog entries Comments Off

Thanks to reader Marc S. for the early heads up on this. It seems you really never can judge a book by its cover! I blogged a few weeks ago on why Google would never do IMAP. Well, it’s time to eat my hat. Getting started with IMAP for Gmail Here’s a capture of the [...]

Posted in backtrack, blog entries 3 Comments »

Ubuntu Gutsy came out today, which you should know unless you’ve had your head in the sand for the last week. Digg’s front page has been plastered with stories in anticipation of the big day, and I’m guilty of the hype, too, by writing a silly post earlier this week that made it to the [...]

Posted in blog entries 17 Comments »

The day draws near for Gutsy’s release (Ubuntu 7.10), and after running the betas and release candidate for a while, I’m quite impressed. Gutsy feels snappier than previous releases; the whole thing is put together very nicely. Updates have been coming in a steady stream, and Firefox and MPlayer are up to their current versions [...]

Posted in blog entries 32 Comments »

An article at torrentfreak.com hit the front pages of reddit and Digg recently, showing how to tunnel Bittorrent over an SSH connection. As a sys admin, loud bells began going off in my head. If I’m providing a free shell account to you, do you think I was counting on all your Bittorrent traffic adding [...]

Posted in blog entries 34 Comments »