Nice tutorial on getting Samba and SWAT working on Fedora Core 1. Too bad they don’t cover RPMing them. Samba already works on Fedora Core 1 but SWAT would make a very nice addition.
Author: Bobby Rockers
Groupware FYI
OpenGroupWare is a groupware server that uses open standards for communication (LDAP, WebDAV, XML-RPC.) This means that its perfect for using with mulitple clients on multiple platforms. Currently working Clients are Mozilla address, Outlook, Evolution, and Kontact. It has a built-in web interface for use also. It looks like the Exchange replacement of the future may very well be Kontact and OpenGroupWare.
Kolab is the KDE groupware server designed for kontact. Kontact can be used with OpenGroupware, Kolab, Exchange, support in development for eGroupWare, phpGroupWare.
Howto Fedora
Article from flexbeta.net with a quick walk-through of setting-up a Fedora Linux box and some of the tools found in Fedora for everyday computer tasks. Looks like a nice template for a how-to Fedora manual.
Tools of Security
Found a outstanding article on setting up Chkrootkit, Portsentry, and Logcheck. Chkrootkit is a popular root kit checker (a tool for gaining root access to system.) Portsentry watches unused ports for inappropriate activity, and Logcheck monitors your logs looking for suspicious activity. For those of you not familiar with *nix OSes, these are common tools to protect your system for specific focused attacks. Because *nix doesn’t generally get viruses their is generally not a need for anti-virus software; but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t a great number of tools for protecting your system.
Random Gripe of the Day
Humanity has an unfortunate propensity to mistake its own shortcomings for those of society and the world. It, therefore, pursues in exuberance to change the world; because its more comfortable than changing itself.
There and Back
Well its official. Peter Jackson is planning on doing “The Hobbit”, the prequel to the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Check out the story here. Yes my friends, God is good!
A Plumbers Story
Few epics in history have the passion and drama of that of the lives of Mario and Luigi, aka The Mario Brothers. Don’t believe me? Check outMario Brothers: Part I and see the previously untold story.
Spam Humor
Think you have a solution to spam? Check out spamsolutions. Its an online spam solution form with pre-selectable failure options. My favorite is
Specifically, your plan fails to account for…
Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
Armies of worm riddled broadband-connected Windows boxes
Ghosts of the Past
short introduction is a Russian woman’s on-line journal of her trips through Chernobyl. Her English is broken but the content generally speaks for itself.
Version Control Part 2
Just a quick addition the the previous article. Here is a great rant by Larry McVoy on the Linux Kernel Mailing list talking about the pure difficulty of developing a distributed version control system (aka: dcvs). Larry is the founder of BitMover, the company that makes BitKeeper (aka: BK). One sentence that really stands out to me is his explanation of how to perceive a dcvs:
To understand why, think of BK as a distributed, replicated, version
controlled user level file system with no limits on any of the file system
events which may happened in parallel. Now put the changes back together,
correctly, no matter how much parallelism there has been.
controlled user level file system with no limits on any of the file system
events which may happened in parallel. Now put the changes back together,
correctly, no matter how much parallelism there has been.
BitKeeper is possibly the best revision control system ever created (unfortunately it costs money that I don’t have.) Larry started BitKeeper to help out Linus’s work on the Linux kernel. There are many people who really don’t like BK because it is not under a GPL license. Its so good at revision control that its worth it anyway to Linus because of the time it saves him (its not unusual to have Linus merge 3000+ pushes a day into the mainline kernel.) Linux kernel developers get to use BK for free.