TechOpinionation

Installing KDE with LVM and LUKS

When reprepro insists on sha1 instead of sha256

How to verify proper cert order in a PEM file

Generating Static Pages For All AWStats files

Using Teaching Textbooks Programs Without the CDs

Cups, Ghostscript, and Memory Errors, Oh My!

An Interview with Simon Kelley, the Author of dnsmasq

Notes on a Successful Fast Trak Pour

Resetting Passwords Without Expiry in FreeIPA

Using Chef Zero, Audit Mode, and Packer

Bringing up Atlassian JIRA/Confluence/Crowd on DreamHost’s DreamCompute

The dreaded xsane "Invalid argument" and an easy fix

When el6 won’t apply a default route

Dealing with cert errors when using python-ldap

Resetting user password in Serendipity

Fixing heavy disk activity (excessive IO) in KMail

When localhost isn’t localhost: Apache and OpenLDAP

Creating new Mailman lists on cPanel from the command line

BetweenDict, a Python dict for value ranges

Basie sounds good…but only SVN?

Don’t use strptime, use a regex

Generating PDF thumbnails

I couldn’t have said it any better, Dell

When marketing gets ahead of engineering

Figuring out why I can’t resume any more

Chaining SSH Connections

Woohoo! I’m "published!"

Looking for work again

Be Careful Who You Prank

Skills vs. Theory: Which Should Be Taught?

Real dependencies, not convenient dependencies

Get a better one

Building Python Eggs with C Extensions on Windows

A near (computer) death experience

Starting up at a Startup

Can you effectively enforce reciprocity?

You’re using what!?

Job Hunting

Don’t use Brightline Compliance

Encouraging strong passwords

Defect? Feature request? Who decides?

Geek bands

Relative Difficulty

Making stew