Posts
2010
Best practices: iptables
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Adjusting tty’s in Fedora 13 with upstart
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Why I’m a Racker
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Testing network throughput with iperf
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SIGTERM vs. SIGKILL
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Sticky shift key with synergy in Fedora 12
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Private network interfaces: the forgotten security hole
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MySQL: The total number of locks exceeds the lock table size
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MySQL: The total number of locks exceeds the lock table size
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Switching between audible and visual bells in screen
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Crash course in dsh
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Change the escape keystrokes in screen
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A New Year System Administrator Inspiration
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2009
Parse kernel.org changelogs with wget and grep
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Upgrading Fedora 11 to 12 using yum
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Disable acceleration for Apple’s Magic Mouse
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Automatically loading iptables rules on Debian/Ubuntu
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Changing the time zone in irssi
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Fix MacFusion on Snow Leopard
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Installing the mysql gem in Fedora 11 64-bit
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Get the public-facing IP for any server with icanhazip.com
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Rotating rails logs when using Phusion Passenger
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Deleting all e-mail messages in your inbox with mutt
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Two great signals: SIGSTOP and SIGCONT
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Upgrading from Fedora 10 (Cambridge) to Fedora 11 (Leonidas)
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Simple SOCKS proxy using SSH
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Comparing MySQL result sets quickly
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Re-scan the SCSI bus in Linux after hot-swapping a drive
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Piping log files to a syslog server
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PHPMyAdmin 3.x hides the table indexes
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Enabling VNC as a pseudo-KVM with VMWare Server
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Compare the RPM packages installed on two different servers
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Upgrade Debian etch to lenny
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Linux: emergency reboot or shutdown with magic commands
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Linux: Adjust storage kernel module load order
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Writing a Ruby on Rails application without using a database
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CPAN: Automatically install dependencies without confirmation
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2008
Reducing inode and dentry caches to keep OOM killer at bay
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Simple server monitoring with xinetd
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Importing Excel files into MySQL with PHP
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Plesk: Upgrade to 8.4 causes “no such user” error in maillog
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Viewing documentation for your ruby gems
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What is ‘steal time’ in my sysstat output?
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Syncing an iPhone with a new Mac without hassles
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Installing Microsoft’s TrueType fonts on Linux servers
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