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Hello from our new Dell Vostro 1500 laptop!

We just got this laptop for my wife to use at home, but I thought I should spend a few minutes getting everything up and working (and blog about it). Generally speaking, I'm a Mac guy, but this laptop is pretty sweet …

I could blame it on the late hour, but the truth of the matter is that I'm just a bonehead.

I'm currently installing a new Cisco ASA 5520 to replace an old Cisco PIX. This new device is going to use <acronym title="Secure SHell">SSH</acronym> and TACACS+ to …

In case you missed it, Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) released version 9.4.2 of their BIND DNS server yesterday. It is recommended that all you BIND DNS operators out there upgrade your software, as BIND 9.4.2 over 90 fixes! Here's a graphical representation of the types of …

It's been four weeks since BlogRush released their updated dashboard and I decided to give them a second chance. In that time, I've earned over 6,000 credits and received 1 click. (The recipient article for that one lonely click was Gmail And IMAP, Perfect if you are interested.)

What …

Well, no matter how annoying these problems may be for me, there's surely some poor engineer at Cisco working his tail off to get the issue resolved.

Good luck!

UPDATE: More info from CNET regarding the outage.

I'm writing this post for two reasons:

1. For some reason, I couldn't find a lot of information on ActiveRecord and SELECT DISTINCT().
2. I'm hoping some Ruby / ActiveRecord guru will stumble across this and provide a better solution.

Recently, I was working on a project written in Ruby with ActiveRecord that …

The Red Hat team has been hard at work rolling out bug fix updates. Here's another list of updated packages.

• iiimf-le-xcin
• apr
• db4
• planner
• dia
• gzip
• busybox
• libtool
• mrtg
• hal-cups-utils
• ksh
• man
• man-pages
• man-pages-fr
• numactl
• kudzu
• tcp_wrappers
• pdksh
• kbd

Red Hat signs all their packages via Gnu Privacy Guard (GPG …

The Red Hat folks have been hard at work pushing out a new batch of bug fixes. Here's a list of affected packages.

• dlm-kernel
• ccs
• magma
• rgmanager

If you use any of the above packages or a Red Hat-based system, please make sure you keep your software up to date …

The One Laptop Per Childproject was started by MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte to give computer access to children in developing nations. The organization believes that theirXO laptop can help children with little to no access to rudimentary education learn more effectively. This belief is bolstered by Negroponte's own …

I'm way behind in my feed reader (Google Reader, if you care to know) and it shows. This morning I was poking around in my Gmail settings and noticed a slight change in the tabs across the top. Where we used to have "Forwarding and POP", we now have "Forwarding …

The Fedora Project officially released Fedora 8 today, and the neatest feature is not this animated GIF! You can find a list of the many new features on the Fedora Project Wiki.

Let me take the opportunity to remind you that Fedora represents the cutting-edge in Red Hat-based Linux. Designed …

Red Hat recently released a flood of kernel-related bug fixes. Here's a list of the affected packages:

• cmirror-kernel
• cman-kernel
• dlm-kernel
• gnbd-kernel
• GFS-kernel

If you use any of these packages, make sure you are up to date.

Let me start off by apologizing for what I'm about to do. The following is nothing more than ego stroking.

A little over a week ago, Google began updating the PageRank indicator visible via the Google Toolbar. For those that aren't aware, Google PageRank is the visible "value" of a …

This is just a quick note for you DNS operators out there.

Mark Andrews of ISC has notified the bind-announce mailing list that L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET has changed it's ip address to 199.7.83.42. Mark's suggested method for updating your BIND hints file is as follows:

$ dig ns …

With the release of Fedora 8 on the immediate horizon, Bill Nottingham of the Fedora Project announced the End of Life date for Fedora Core 6 as Friday, December 7, 2007.

As a reminder, the Fedora Project supports a release for a full month following the second successive release. So …