Long time, no blog

Hi, my name is Steve and I’m a WoW addict.  That’s right, I said it, I play WoW and it’s taken up A LOT of my time recently.  Hence the lack of blog posts.  However, now that my hunter on WoW is level 80, I probably won’t be playing as much and will try to [...]

OSSEC v1.6 released

OSSEC 1.6 is out.  Looks like lots of goodies:
http://www.ossec.net/main/ossec-v16-released

Ubuntu Eee 8.04

I’ve been running Ubuntu 7.10 on my Eee PC since I got it about six months ago.  It took some tweaking to get everything working (suspend/resume was a pain!), but once set up, the little laptop has been rock solid.  I was planning to upgrade my Eee PC to Ubuntu 8.04, but I read about [...]

Make like a PDF and split

I was recently asked by a user to help with merging and splitting multiple PDF files.  I’m sure Adobe Acrobat could handle something like this, but I’m not that familiar with Acrobat and my user couldn’t afford the full version of Acrobat.  Being a command line junky, I looked for something I could run in [...]

DIY Security Camera System

If you are in the market for an inexpensive security DVR/CCTV system, I might have a solution for you.  First, you’ll need a computer to install the video surveillance software on.  If you need something compact and low powered, I would suggest going with a computer like the decTOP.  You can pick up a decTOP [...]

OSSEC 1.5 is out

If you’re looking for host based intrusion detection software, I would highly recommend checking out OSSEC.  Version 1.5 was released on May 1st, and the new features look awesome.  Installation is simply a matter of downloading the gzipped tar, extracting the files, and running the install.sh script.  You can run OSSEC in either a client/agent [...]

Hardy Upgrades

So far, I’ve upgrade three Ubuntu workstations and two servers to Hardy Heron 8.04.  Of those five upgrades, I only had problems with one of the workstation upgrades.  The other workstation and server upgrades were painless.  The workstation upgrade I had a problem with was due, I think, to my Nvidia video driver.  I ended [...]

Tomboy ssh sync

I recently started using Tomboy Notes, because the post-it notes around my desk were starting to get out of hand. I liked Tomboy so much, I installed it on my work desktop, my laptop, and my home desktop computer (all running Ubuntu 7.10). I quickly became frustrated if I needed a note from [...]

Ubuntu System Management

I’ve been using Ubuntu’s new system management tool called Landscape, and I have to say I’m really impressed. I registered for the beta a few weeks ago and was accepted. The only downside is the beta limits you to managing a maximum of five Ubuntu machines, and will end in 60 days. [...]

Tivo Crash

The family unit and I were watching the latest episode of Lost on our Tivo, and about 30 minutes into the show, our Tivo appeared to lock up and then it restarted. No big deal, I thought, it’s a computer and computers sometimes crash. After waiting a few minutes, Tivo is back up [...]