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May 26, 2006

How not to manage geeks

Positive Sharing » How NOT to lead geeks is an intersting discussion of the things managers do wrong in dealing with technical people. I experienced a lot of this at the company I left earlier this year after 10 years. This company was known as an engineer's company until they changed CEOs duringthe dot com boom, and it has been going downhill since then. They don't even realize they are driving away the good employees....

May 25, 2006

easy ssh tunnels

MyEntunnel - A background SSH tunnel daemon

May 24, 2006

Backing up DVDs to Xvid

How to convert TV Series DVD episodes to DivX/XviD with ease using freeware


SSH + Squid

SSH + Squid = Private Browsing This is handy for secure surfing at public wifi hotspots.

May 23, 2006

ssh tunnels

import this. » Blog Archive » HOWTO: Secure Firefox and IM with PuTTY

May 19, 2006

What a tool!


Holy cow! Check out this weenie roaster.  It scares me.

May 16, 2006

Bash keybindings

All about Linux: Bash Shell Shortcuts

May 15, 2006

Apache Load Balancing

How To Set Up A Loadbalanced High-Availability Apache Cluster | HowtoForge - Linux Howtos and Tutorials

May 06, 2006

Air Force success

From the Washington Times Inside the Ring

Army protector
Gen. T. Michael Moseley, the Air Force chief of staff who ran air wars against Afghanistan and Iraq, had this interesting fact on air dominance when he met with reporters recently. "The United States Air Force is very good at defending Army troops," he said. "The last time an Army soldier was killed on the ground was April of 1953 by an attack from the air, in Korea. So we take this very serious about our partnership with the Army."

May 05, 2006

Vmware router

nixCraft: Setup VMWARE Host as router for Solaris, Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows XP Guest OS

May 03, 2006

Creating a VZ ringtone

HOWTO: Make a Verizon Ringtone - Consumerist

Bash Daemon

A Bourne Again Daemon This looks handy.