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Moving from OS X to Linux: Day One 27 Aug 2013 | 08:05 am
The thought of using Linux as a manager in a highly Windows- and Mac-centric corporate environment isn’t something to be taken lightly. Integrating with Active Directory, wrangling email with Microsof...
Get a rock-solid Linux touchpad configuration for the Lenovo X1 Carbon 25 Aug 2013 | 01:28 am
The X1 Carbon’s touchpad has been my nemesis in Linux for quite some time because of its high sensitivity. I’d often find the cursor jumping over a few pixels each time I tried to tap to click. This w...
drbd 8.4.3 package on the way for Fedora 19 2 Aug 2013 | 09:57 pm
There’s a drbd-8.4.3-1 package waiting in the testing repository for Fedora 19. The DRBD kernel module for kernel 3.10 is up to 8.4.3 but the client tools within Fedora 19 (currently at 8.4.2) should ...
PXE boot Fedora 19 using a Mikrotik firewall 24 Jul 2013 | 02:47 am
Outside of the RHCA exams, I haven’t configured a PXE system for my personal needs. A colleague demoed his PXE setup for me and I was hooked. Once I realized how much time I could save when I’m buildi...
Come and get your SELinux shirts! 18 Jul 2013 | 05:14 pm
After my podcast interview at the 2013 Red Hat Summit, Dan Walsh posted a photo of himself in the SELinux shirt that I gave him at the Summit: @majorhayden thanks for the shirt. Big hit @redhat offic...
A humble farewell to Seth Vidal 10 Jul 2013 | 07:58 am
I was shocked to see Robyn Bergeron’s email today about Seth Vidal’s passing. He was the victim of a hit and run accident while he was cycling last night. The suspect has turned himself in as of tonig...
Boot VM’s with virt-manager and libvirt with ISO’s stored remotely via samba/cifs 7 Jul 2013 | 06:51 am
Pairing virt-manager with KVM makes booting new VM’s pretty darned easy. I have a QNAP NAS at home with a bunch of ISO’s stored in share available to guests and I wanted to use that with libvirt to bo...
Confine untrusted users (including your children) with SELinux 5 Jul 2013 | 11:50 pm
The confined user support in SELinux is handy for ensuring that users aren’t able to do something that they shouldn’t. It seems more effective and easier to use than most of the other methods I’ve see...
My interview on the Dave and Gunnar Show 19 Jun 2013 | 05:04 pm
David Egts and Gunnar Hellekson were kind enough to invite me to participate in their Dave and Gunnar Show podcast during the 2013 Red Hat Summit. We talked about Red Hat Enterprise Linux and my takea...
Red Hat Summit 2013 Recap 15 Jun 2013 | 05:25 am
The 2013 Red Hat Summit was my second one and I enjoyed it more than last year. Quite a few people asked for a recap and some takeaways from the Summit and that’s what I hope to do in this post. Keyno...
