Living with Open Source

I've been fiddling with Solaris Zones lately, and I must say it's great. There's an interesting entry on ITtoolbox Wiki outlining the step-by-step procedure of creating a sample zone. Just remember, when creating a new zone, to connect directly to zone console after first booting to finish zone creation process. I mean, use something lik Read Full Story

When going through my RSS feeds -- I've got some backlog to catch up with -- I read this post on lofi mount in Solaris (in Polish). It turns out that starting from Solaris Express Community Edition build 91 using lofiadm(1M) is no longer necessary to mount iso files. Previously you had to use something similar: mount -F hsfs -o ro 'lofia Read Full Story

My employer had sent me to a RH253 Red Hat Linux Networking and Security Administration training, so I guess I won't be writting much this week. Nonetheless, there's one thing that really brought my attention at today's classes: SELinux. Read Full Story

Yeah, I know it's all over the Internet and almost everyone is writting about it, but this is so interesting that I couldn't abstain from not mentioning it. The THING I'm referring to is Debian's snag with their OpenSSL port. Read Full Story

You know, I've been using SpamAssassin for quite a while, but lately I had become irritated with it's inability to properly weed-out all the SPAM from my inbox. Earlier this week I decided that it's time for him to go. Read Full Story