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Although I've been exclusively using a Mac for everything but servers since about 2008, I found myself considering a move back to Linux on the desktop after seeing how some people were using it at LinuxCon. My conversion from the iPhone to Android ... [More] was rocky for a very brief period and now I can't think [...]Going back to Linux as a desktop is a post from: Major Hayden's Racker Hacker blog. Thanks for following the blog via the RSS feed. Please don't copy my posts or quote portions of them without attribution. [Less]

Automating package updates in CentOS 6 is a quick process and it ensures that your system receives the latest available security patches, bugfixes and enhancements. Although it's easy and available right from yum on a normal CentOS 6 system, I still ... [More] find that many people aren't aware of it. Before you enable automatic updates, you'll [...]Automatic package updates in CentOS 6 is a post from: Major Hayden's Racker Hacker blog. Thanks for following the blog via the RSS feed. Please don't copy my posts or quote portions of them without attribution. [Less]

After getting Android-envy at LinuxCon, I decided to push myself out of my comfort zone and ditch my iPhone 4 for a Samsung Galaxy S III. It surprised a lot of people I know since I've been a big iPhone fan since the original model was released in ... [More] 2007. I've carried the original iPhone, the [...]One week with Android is a post from: Major Hayden's Racker Hacker blog. Thanks for following the blog via the RSS feed. Please don't copy my posts or quote portions of them without attribution. [Less]

I was sitting at my desk yesterday when I saw a tweet from @LinuxFoundation: I've always wanted to attend LinuxCon, so I fired back with a reply: "@linuxfoundation Fedora! #linuxcon #cloudopen". This popped into my Twitter timeline yesterday evening: ... [More] Wow! This sure was a surprise since I rarely ever win a contest of any sort. [...]See you at LinuxCon North America 2012! is a post from: Major Hayden's Racker Hacker blog. Thanks for following the blog via the RSS feed. Please don't copy my posts or quote portions of them without attribution. [Less]

After a recent issue I had with some users in the Puppy Linux forums, I thought it might be prudent to write a post about how to monitor and protect your reputation online. This guide is mainly geared towards technical people who maintain some type ... [More] of public presence. That should include folks who talk at [...]Monitoring and protecting your reputation online is a post from: Major Hayden's Racker Hacker blog. Thanks for following the blog via the RSS feed. Please don't copy my posts or quote portions of them without attribution. [Less]

A forum thread cropped in my inbox today from the Puppy Linux forums titled "Major Hayden???". After a little digging, I found a giant thread talking about icanhazip.com. In these various threads, I was accused of: being an expert on Linux (totally ... [More] false!) running a site on behalf of the CIA being a direct descendent [...]Privacy and icanhazip.com is a post from: Major Hayden's Racker Hacker blog. Thanks for following the blog via the RSS feed. Please don't copy my posts or quote portions of them without attribution. [Less]

If you install vpnc via MacPorts on OS X, you'll find that you have no openssl support after it's built: $ sudo port install vpnc ---> Computing dependencies for vpnc ---> Cleaning vpnc ---> Scanning binaries for linking errors: 100.0% ... [More] ---> No broken files found. $ sudo vpnc vpnc was built without openssl: Can't do [...]Building vpnc with openssl support via MacPorts on Mac OS X is a post from: Major Hayden's Racker Hacker blog. Thanks for following the blog via the RSS feed. Please don't copy my posts or quote portions of them without attribution. [Less]

Vitalie Cherpec contacted me back in May about his new hosted DNS offering, Luadns. I gave it a try and I offered to write a review about the service. DISCLAIMER: I don't write many reviews on this blog, but I want to make sure a few things are ... [More] clear. Vitalie was kind enough to set [...]DNS Service Review: Luadns is a post from: Major Hayden's Racker Hacker blog. Thanks for following the blog via the RSS feed. Please don't copy my posts or quote portions of them without attribution. [Less]

Connecting to an OpenStack Swift instance that is using swauth for authentication is quite easy within Cyberduck on the Mac. Open Terminal.app and run this command: defaults write ch.sudo.cyberduck cf.authentication.context /auth/v1.0 Keep in mind ... [More] that this changes the authentication URI for all OpenStack swift connections made by Cyberduck. If this isn't what you want, you [...]Connecting to OpenStack Swift with Cyberduck using swauth is a post from: Major Hayden's Racker Hacker blog. Thanks for following the blog via the RSS feed. Please don't copy my posts or quote portions of them without attribution. [Less]

Although GRUB 2 does give us some nice benefits, changing its configuration can be a bit of a challenge if you're used to working with the original GRUB for many, many years. I've recently installed some Fedora 17 systems with Xen and I've had to go ... [More] back to the documentation to change the default GRUB [...]Boot the Xen hypervisor by default in Fedora 17 with GRUB 2 is a post from: Major Hayden's Racker Hacker blog. Thanks for following the blog via the RSS feed. Please don't copy my posts or quote portions of them without attribution. [Less]