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Ever thought “hey, I’d like to use this with Tor“?  Well, I’m giving someone in the Fedora community the opportunity to review a package that will allow  you to do just that.  Torsocks provides a “usewithtor” functionality to allow many network-utilizing programs to go over the Tor network instead of exposing your doings t […]

Last night/earlier today I pushed updates to both the Gpredict and TuDu packages in Fedora.  TuDu also resides in the EPEL repositories for those running EL5 and EL6 and those repos were also updated.  If you are a user of either of these packages I’d appreciate you testing out these new packages to make sure [...]

My company, Citrix, is looking for a build engineer with experience in RPM, deb, ant, and Jenkins/Hudson.  Programming knowledge isn’t necessary but scripting in bash or python would be good.  Work with an open source project would also be a plus. They would need to be located in our of our offices (Santa Clara California, [...]

Last winter we received a fair amount of snow in December and January.  This year has been different.  Not quite warm but higher-than-normal seasonal temperatures have plagued us.  And without an Arctic blast of cold air the precipitation has all … Continue reading →

Maphead, written by Ken Jennings, is a great book exploring the world of geography and maps.  Written to help bring other mapheads out of their closet, the book explores people who love maps, cartography, and the world around them. I … Continue reading →

I recently finished reading what has got to be one of the greatest books on physics.  Not to be confused with a text book, For the Love of Physics: from the end of the rainbow to the edge of time– … Continue reading →