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BIND DNS “replacement” released
NLnet Labs, Verisign, Nominet, and Kerei have announced the release of a new DNS server to potentially replace ISC’s BIND: http://www.unbound.net/ Built from the ground up, it’s supposed to be faster and more secure, in part supporting DNSSEC out of the box. Of course as with all new software, it remains to be seen if…
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Email obfuscation in HTML
One of the problems with posting your email is that there are programs that troll the web for email addresses for SPAM uses. This site: E-mail Obfuscator does a quick conversion of your email address into HTML that most of these programs can’t or won’t read, hopefully allowing you to post your email and avoid…
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That dang “Unused Icons” popup…
Drives me crazy when Windows XP pops up the “There are unused icons” balloon and unfortunately it isn’t as intuitive as you’d think to turn it off. Fortunately the guys at “HowToGeek.com” have the directions to turn it off here.
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My Resume
I’ve worked in professionally for a large discount retailer in the systems, networking, security, and programming arenas for the last 20+ years, much of it in leadership or management roles. My resume is here. More versions of it as well as more information in general, can be found here.
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Handy Fedora Upgrade FAQ
If you need to upgrade Fedora in place via “yum”, this FAQ is invaluable: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/YumUpgradeFaq It tells you exactly what you need to know and the various caveats when doing the upgrade.
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Another one bites the dust…
It’s a little sad, yet another Linux holdout has fallen to the Microsoft world: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7402365.stm In some sense it’s probably a good thing – much as I like Linux, the world is run on Microsoft and getting used to its interface is probably more useful to children than Linux. On the other hand, a lot…
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How to disable graphical boot on Linux
On Fedora, edit “/etc/sysconfig/init” and set: GRAPHICAL=no Also edit “/boot/grub/grub.conf” and remove the “rhgb” option on kernel options line (“rhgb” standing for “Red Hat Graphical Boot”). If you want to disable X11 automatic startup, change “/etc/inittab” default run level: id:5:initdefault: to: id:3:initdefault: You will then have to start X11 manually if you want to use…