SpamAssassin 2010 Bug
I first heard of the SpamAssassin 2010 bug in an email notice from cPanel and then saw it mentioned on LWN. The full More »
Joe\'s Author Archive
Remote Encrypted Storage Revisited
Introduction I’ve been using my Dropbox / encfs combination since April and it’s worked great. Lately, however, I’ve come across some areas where I More »
Modifying Vixie Cron for Fun
Introduction Cron is an essential *nix package that silently runs in the background running scheduled jobs. The most common version of cron is Vixie More »
64-bit On A Personal Level
I never paid much attention to 64-bit. I figured 64-bit operating systems were just a natural evolutionary step and I’d just casually start More »
Making a Plain Website
Introduction For the past few years, Unix Mages was running on Wordpress. The site has not changed in over two years as I was More »
Understanding TCP/IP
Understanding TCP/IP (or The Book with the Frog Touching Himself) is a great, new book from Packt. As the title suggests, it covers More »
Time Management For System Administrators
System Administrators are one group of people who never seem to have enough time. This is mostly a result from the haphazard schedule More »
The Definitive Guide to SQLite
SQLite is the database for minimalists: it requires no back-end daemons, and as such, does not follow the client-server architecture of the other More »
The Definitive Guide to Apache mod_rewrite
The wonderful folks over at Apress sent me a preview copy of The Definitive Guide to Apache mod_rewrite. Before reading this book, I More »
The ABCs of LDAP
I was looking for a good book on LDAP and ran across The ABCs of LDAP by Reinhard Voglmaier. Even though, according to More »