January 2008

Here’s a Washington Post piece about the Storm worm, and it being traced to St. Petersburg, and the international relations around that. This is largely… Read More »See, it really is the Russians

Everybody keeps asking, “When will Linux be a serious contender on the desktop?”. My answer: “Oh, yeah, I remember PC’s.” Linux is already well entrenched… Read More »Linux on [Not] The Desktop

If you see errors like this: Program version 4.6 doesn’t match environment version 4.5 DB_ENV->open: DB_VERSION_MISMATCH: Database environment version mismatch after an upgrade (to Fedora… Read More »Dealing with BerkeleyDB version mismatches

This is a good deal if you’re in the market for any of the software packages on the block, and the proceeds go to charity.… Read More »MacHeist

Boy, it sure is confusing navigating the variety of graphics drivers available for nVidia cards on linux. I’m using the atrpms repo, as suggested by… Read More »nVidia S-Video Out on TV with Fedora 8 and atrpms

My stack of removable drives kept overheating, being stacked on each other. I looked around for a commercial solution that was priced reasonably, and struck… Read More »Rolling External Drive Cabinet

I finally figured out that the reason the motherboard I purchased for a MythTV box (Intel BOXDQ965GFEKR, ala DQ956GF) was kernel panicing at every boot,… Read More »Intel Open Source Graphics on Fedora 8

I was reading about the latest* Windows vulnerability over at the ISC diary and they point out there the vector is a bunch of old… Read More »Pre-Screening Vulnerable Users Through Old Exploits

There’s good enough documentation out there on how to put a Typo blog behind a reverse proxy, and a little bit about using mongrel’s ‘prefix’,… Read More »Hosting Typo behind an Apache Reverse Proxy at an Arbitrary Path

I’ve setup a new blog Bill McGonigle’s Blog -or- Resigned to the Bittersweet Truth for personal blogging purposes. I write there: Here you’ll find stuff… Read More »Blog Fork