Monthly Archives: September 2010

SELinux quicky

I’ve been using SELinux for a few days now (in permissive mode, just to get to know things) and have learned a few interesting commands (or other nice-to-know’s) for using SELinux. Since I’m going to forget those the moment all … Continue reading

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Switching to hardened

Yesterday (and this night) I successfully converted my system to a Gentoo Hardened system. In my case, this currently means that PaX has been enabled and I am currently running the system (which is an x86_64 laptop) with SELinux in … Continue reading

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prezi presentations

While doing some research on current rich internet applications / web application platforms, I discovered an online presentation site/tool called Prezi. This online application allows you to make dynamic presentations differently from the standard presentation software like OpenOffice.org’s Impress. A … Continue reading

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cvechecker 0.6 released

This release makes me quite happy, because it resolves one major PITA I had (performance), but you know how things go. If it works fine for the developer, it’s probably an abomination for the rest of the world. Anyhow, cvechecker … Continue reading

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Linux Sea last content chapter

The last chapter in Linux Sea focuses on Using A Shell. This seems to me like a nice last chapter, as it confronts the user with the exciting world of shell scripts. I hope that the chapters in the book … Continue reading

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devops – how hard can it/it can be

Dieter made a good reference to devops and the open source community and (correctly) points out that, even in a more collaborative scene such as the free software communities’, there is still distinction between development and operations. And it isn’t … Continue reading

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Linux Sea: log file management and backups

I’ve added two more chapters to the Linux Sea book. The first one is about Log file management, the second one about Taking Backups. They’re far from finished, but I thought that those two topics are important for day-to-day Gentoo … Continue reading

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cvechecker 0.5 released

A new intermediate release of cvechecker is now released. The tool is reported to build properly on NetBSD and FreeBSD as well (although much user experience there is still welcome), introduces a cvereport command (example output), has lowered its initial … Continue reading

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