awesome WM Appreciation Post
Multiple workspaces always made me kind of sloppy as a user when they were supposed to make me more organized. I would open up dozens of tabbed terminals and lose track of some of them. Eventually I...
View ArticleCentOS 5.3 to 5.4 upgrade woes
I’ve been pushing out CentOS 5.4 on a number of test systems this week, and I came upon a very interesting, very insidious, and very annoying problem. When running the upgrade, yum upgrade seems to run...
View ArticleMore on CentOS 5.3 to 5.4
So, here’s a humbling, humiliating and slightly funny follow-up to my last blog post: I’ve always done my due diligence in making sure upgrades go smoothly. As a result, I have a habit of tirelessly...
View ArticleFedora 12 allows users to install signed packages…
Update: According to a post on lwn that I can’t find at the moment, they’ve already reverted this decision with a subsequent update. It should be resolved soon. …without root privileges, without...
View ArticleRecording disk statistics with sysstat on RHEL/CentOS
Unlike on Debian-like systems, the default configuration for sysstat’s sa1 collector on RHEL/CentOS does not include disk statistics (like you would get from iostat) in the sa collection output. This...
View ArticleLinux fails to escape screensaver malware
Screensavers, smiley packs, little animated desktop companions and their ilk have, for a very long time, been a big part of the Windows malware ecosystem, because they’re the kind of thing that...
View ArticleLinux vs. Solaris packaging: it’s a philosophical thing
I thought this was a post worth making because this was the hangup that kept me, as an eight-year Linux user, from really getting Solaris. One of the biggest questions I see repeated all across the...
View ArticleAn annoying and non-obvious rpmbuild “feature enhancement”
Specifically, under certain circumstances, it can dump debuginfo files into /usr/lib/debug and /usr/src/debug under your buildroot, neglect to build the corresponding -debuginfo package, and then have...
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