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Working with GLPI and OCS Inventory

I played with OCS Inventory a few years ago, but it wasn’t very mature when I last touched it, so I kind of abandoned using it around the office. I was made known, however, on the CentOS mailing list that it integrates into GLPI’s tracking software. It’s now able to pull over the database of [...]

Death of arcades

I ran across an interesting article today about the death of video games. You can find the post here at the Chicago Tribune.
This is absolutely no surprise, and honestly, I’m surprised they stayed open as long as they did. I’m 28 years old, and I remember arcades in my small home town disappearing even [...]

Linux pstree

#pstree –help
I didn’t realize this before, but you can get an SELinux security context listing based on running processes with the Linux pstree command.
# pstree -n -p -Z

init(1,`system_u:system_r:init_t’)
├─httpd(5396,`user_u:system_r:initrc_t’)
│ ├─httpd(5398,`user_u:system_r:initrc_t’)
│ ├─httpd(5399,`user_u:system_r:initrc_t’)
│ ├─httpd(5400,`user_u:system_r:initrc_t’)
│ ├─httpd(5401,`user_u:system_r:initrc_t’)
│ ├─httpd(5402,`user_u:system_r:initrc_t’)
│ ├─httpd(5403,`user_u:system_r:initrc_t’)
│ ├─httpd(5404,`user_u:system_r:initrc_t’)
│ └─httpd(5405,`user_u:system_r:initrc_t’)
├─sunbird(7502,`user_u:system_r:unconfined_t’)
[...]

Open source burning software

I found a new piece of open source software for Windows today. You can burn CD and DVD projects with InfraRecorder which is licensed under GPL v2.
Download from their website: InfraRecorder
Unpack the zip files to a place like C:\Program Files\InfraRecorder and then launch InfraRecorder.exe. That’s it, there’s no software to really “install” the Windows way. [...]

Geek Squad getting in trouble

This is exactly why I would never EVER let these kinds of places touch any kind of hardware that had data on it.
Geek Squad Lawsuit filed
I refuse to even send a hard drive back to the manufacturer without first wiping it with DBAN. Call me paranoid, but it’s entirely too easy for others to get [...]