Archive for March, 2007
Fedora 7 Test 2 Review and Remarks
So pretty, so very pretty! At least the install is quite pretty. The new look and feel of Fedora 7 is definitely nice. I did, however notice a couple things that I didn’t like. It wasn’t immediately obvious how to pass commands on the Anaconda boot line. After a little looking around, I discovered that [...]
In: Install, News, Releases, Tech
Fedora People Rule!
I was visiting the Fedora People website when I ran across a post by Thorsten Leemhuis. The content of the post was a quick way to set up notifications using libnotify when someone either shouts your name or says your nick in irssi. So I thought I’d give it a try. His is an alteration [...]
sfdisk – My new Saving Grace
How many of you have ever lost your data on a hard drive? I know I have, more than once. Usually, I give up on recovering the drive but this time I really couldn’t. I was installing a machine as I normally do for class, I have a removable usb drive (80GB) that I keep [...]
VNC – Seeing Linux in Linux
What does that mean? Seeing Linux in Linux? Huh? Well let me tell you a little about vnc – Virtual Network Computing. vnc has been around quite some time, and in Fedora, its easy to setup. vnc supports communication over ssh too, which will help us securely perform over the network. There are two parts [...]
Thinking About File Encryption (again)
Some of you might recall my article the other day about vim encryption. It is a very nice way to encrypt the file but has some holes in the process. Having extra files laying around while the encrypted file is open is not good enough, though with enough physical security it could be fairly safe. [...]
Utah Open Source Conference 2007 – Call for Papers
Hi all. As the founder of the Utah Open Source Conference and one of its biggest proponents. I just wanted to mention that if you hadn’t already seen the post from the Utah Open Source Planet, you will have now. I am looking forwared to reading all of the outlines coming in over the next [...]
Fedora 7 Test 2 Released
I should have mentioned this earlier, but Fedora 7 Test 2 was released earlier this week. Here’s the announcement: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-announce-list/2007-March/msg00000.html There are some subtle improvements so far: Merger of Core and Extras – There is no core or extras anymore, there is only Fedora 7 Live CD Available – This is definitely cool and about [...]
Vim (encryption) Saves the Day – Again
Today, while trying to find a solution which still eludes me for storing passwords in a local file. I was informed about a cool feature of vim, which has been in there since version 5.7, encryption. My main problem was that I wanted to save all of the non-browser passwords and accounts that I’ve been [...]
