For more information on Julian Tosh, check out his personal website at http://www.juliantosh.us/.

Monday, October 4, 2010

Add a Dock to your Gnome desktop

This tutorial will allow you to add a Mac style doc to your desktop. Cool!

http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/365979-add-these-desktop-docks-for-a-better-desktop-experience

Friday, September 17, 2010

Repeating a series of commands in bash

Wow, this was really cool... captured from a thread on reddit..

I learnt something handy in BASH recently - operate-and-get-next (Ctrl-o). If you type:
  $ echo one
  one
  $ echo two
  two
  $ echo three
  three
Then up-arrow back to 'echo one'. Then press Ctrl-o instead of enter it will execute the command and display the following one in your history ('echo two' in this case).Very handy for replaying a series of commands.

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Simplify LDAP with Fedora's 389 Directory Server

If you've ever had to deal with LDAP, you know it is not an easy beast to master. In fact, the command line tools for LDAP alone would keep many users from even attempting to learn how to take advantage of this powerful tool. If you look, you'll find several tools that make the job of managing LDAP data easier. One of the best is the 389 Directory Server for Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux. 389 is extremely powerful and offers a simple to use GUI for all aspects of user, group, and server management.
 Read more here:
http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/360800-manage-your-ldap-data-with-389-directory-server#

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Systemd and Fedora 14

Systemd and Fedora 14: "LWN.net: 'Systemd, an alternative to Upstart or System V init, has made big strides since it was announced at the end of April. It has been packaged for Fedora and openSUSE, and for users of Fedora Rawhide, it gets installed as the default.'"

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Fedora Supports KSplice!

http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/08/31/ksplice-now-free-for-fedora-users/

'nuff said!

Managing sshd Keys

Managing sshd Keys: "One of my pet peeves is blindly accepting ssh server keys. This is usually cause by a lazy or uninformed Sysadmin who has failed to properly manage his server keys, but secondly by users discounting the importance of verifying server keys and not demanding their credential validation process be better protected.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Google now offers video chat for Linux

http://www.google.com/chat/video

It's about time!