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60 documented solutions across Unix, Linux, networking, and infrastructure.

01

Backfilling a Specific _PARTITIONTIME Partition in BigQuery

BigQuerysql
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02

Docker containers going dark on Rocky Linux 9 host

linuxdockergcp
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03

VirtualBox BSOD on Windows 10

virtualboxhyper-vwindows10
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04

Branch Office to AWS VPC - A Juniper Story

awsvpcjuniper
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05

Compute SSH Public Key Fingerprint

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06

Unable to Browse Windows Network Shares in Ubuntu

ubuntunautilus
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07

Slow Remote Login on OpenSolaris

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08

Empathy Reports Network Error When Connecting to MSN

ubuntu
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09

Updating rubygems on Ubuntu

ubuntu
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10

Add Certificate to Java Keystore

java
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11

rsyslog consumes excessive memory when forwarding logs with compression

rsyslogforwardingubuntu
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12

/etc/hosts entries not being used for non-root users

gentoo
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13

The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period

intelICH10RseagateST3500320AStroubleshootingwindows 7
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14

Git Subtree Merge and git-svn

howtogit-svnrecipe
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15

Commit a linear git history to subversion

howto
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16

Reformat and reindent an XML file

xml
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17

xinetd per_source limit issues

xinetd
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18

Reset The Windows Update Catalog

howtowindows 7windows vista
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19

Reset HP Integrated Lights Out Board to Factory Defaults

howtohpiloriloerecovery
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20

Honor Guest IDE/SATA Flush Requests

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21

Replace Pipes with Tabs in a Delimited File

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22

Remove a Range of Unwanted ZFS Snapshots from the Command Line

howtozfssnapshots
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23

Disable X in OpenSolaris

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24

Create a pidof command to find PID numbers easily

initpid
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25

Strip empty (null) lines from a file

text processingsed
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26

Disable Spotlight in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

macOSspotlightperformancetext processing
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27

Device Manager does not display devices that are not connected

howtotroubleshootingHardware
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28

Clear Spotlight Index

macOSapplespotlight
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29

Disable disk checking during boot on Linux systems

fsckext2ext3ext4filesystem
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30

Convert a .dmg to a .iso

dmgisoconvertmacOS
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31

Mirror a Directory Structure Using the Command Line

cmdcommand prompt
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32

C compiler cannot create executables received after emerge world

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33

Shrink VirtualBox vdisks After Freeing Space (Windows guests)

compact
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34

Create a Large File For Testing

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35

Remote Mirroring Using nc and dd

sysadminhowtonetcat
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36

PowerDNS continually dies after creating a slave zone

dnspowerdnsfail
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37

Intel Matrix Storage Console Reports SATA Drives as Generation 1 not 2

intelsataICH10RseagateST3500320AS
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38

Cannot SSH into PIX/ASA firewall

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39

rsync failed to set times on [filename]

howtorsync
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40

Create thumbnails en-masse from a bash prompt

howtoone-liner
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41

Install VMware Tools on a Gentoo Guest

howto
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42

Logical Volume Expansion with Linux

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43

How To Backup data using Amanda and Amazon S3

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44

Amanda amlabel CURL error: SSL certificate problem when using S3 buckets

gentoosslcertificatescurls3
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45

Where to score xVM Guest Additions

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46

Setting up hosts.allow

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47

Count the number of characters (or columns) in a file

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48

Convert text file to UTF-8 encoding from the shell

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49

Sort files according to their size

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50

Change the UUID of a VirtualBox vdi disk file

howto
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51

Add syslog forwarding host to syslog-ng

sysadminsyslog-ngmonitoringlogging
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52

gunzip and un-tar in a single command

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53

Cannot join OpenSolaris CIFS service to Windows 2008 Domain

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54

Ensure changes to ulimit parameters persist

centos
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55

Recursively delete .svn directories

sysadminvcs
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56

Interactive Command-line File Encryption

encryptionterminal
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57

Flush DNS cache in OS X

macmacOS
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58

Setting up public key authentication over SSH

sysadminssh
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59

Remove SSL key file pass-phrase

sysadmin
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60

Turn off Sun system beep

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