Daniel Owen's Column

Daniel Owen is a Systems Technician for Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. He has been using Linux at home since 1996 and at work since 1999. Daniel graduated in December 2003 with a degree in Graphic Design but he spends most of his time working on Linux and helping find open source solutions for the computing needs for his university (SHSU) including firewalls, and web servers. He also helped setup and customize a jabber server used for messaging on campus.

Daniel is a member of the Houston Linux Users Group and he's working on getting a LUG started at Sam Houston State University. He's also responsible for the graphics on the sourceforge project known as the webber project. Webber is a php based jabber client.

Geographical Location: Texas, United States

Howtos

2004-06-02 HOWTO: FC2: The Facts Without All The Whining.
2004-02-13 HOWTO: Howto setup SSH keys between machines Updated: 2004-02-19
2004-02-12 HOWTO: How to install Fedora Core over NFS
2004-01-26 HOWTO: How to create an RPM of gaim from CVS
2004-01-22 TIPS: useful Fedora tips. Updated: 2004-03-29
2004-01-21 HOWTO: How to Configure Fedora as client to a Microsoft VPN server.

Tips

2004-04-28: Fedora Core 2 Test 3 Tips
2004-03-29: A simple script to drop ssh keys on multiple machines.
2004-02-23: Mount a remote share as a non root user.
2004-02-16: Install Fedora Core through VMware with no CDs.
2004-02-11: Binary NVIDIA drivers complain about gcc.
2004-02-03: Howto burn a CD from FLAC files.
2004-01-22: Use SSH to your advantage. Updated: 2004-05-26