How To Linux

Decent technical advice can be hard to find, found this site via twitter (follow me http://www.twitter.com/howtolinux).  

Well worth a read - http://www.ossramblings.com/

Its annoying, everytime you search for a problem, experts exchange obscures the better results.  I just read this and thought it was fantastic - http://www.cultofgary.com/2008/10/22/excluding-experts-exchange-from-search-results/

Cool, Skype has been updated.  Most of the updates seems to be cosmetic, but they claim that the call quality is better, but then again, don’t they always!!!

I found this article pretty useful, it describes how to use free and opensource tools with Logmein to offer remote administration tools.

Check it out at - http://www.dailycupoftech.com/2009/01/27/expanding-your-logmein-frees-abilities/

I love Apples remote desktop tool, it was a great all round administration tool. Since I moved away from Macs to Linux and Windows Server I have been looking for a combined tool for both Windows Remote Desktop and SSH sessions.

Found this one, looks interesting – http://www.visionapp.com/vrd09-functionality.html. It has a evaluation for 30 days and then limits some of the functionality.

I have been a big fan of the unleashed guides every since I purchased Mac OS X Tiger Unleashed. I loved this book as it was both great for beginners but had some reallly good advanced sections that allowed me to learn some great stuff on mac os x.

So, naturally, when I was looking for a guide to Centos, I purchased another unleashed book. As you probably know, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Centos are basically the same product, minus the proprietary Redhat pieces and non GPL pieces that are not legally available for free. CentOS takes the GPL portions and repackages them as CentOS. This logically led me to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Administration Unleashed. I found this to be a decent book that is great starting point for using Centos, though not as advanced as I would have liked.





Anyone have any suggestions for an advanced system admin book for Centos?

Useful networking Tools now being provided with the help from Google – http://www.measurementlab.net/

Macro Photos that make very cool desktop backgrounds - http://www.smashingapps.com/2008/12/16/43-of-the-extremely-creative-wonders-of-macro-photography.html