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01
Nov 2016
VirtualBox BSOD on Windows 10
virtualbox
hyper-v
windows10
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02
Mar 2015
Branch Office to AWS VPC - A Juniper Story
aws
vpc
juniper
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03
Mar 2012
Compute SSH Public Key Fingerprint
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04
Mar 2011
Unable to Browse Windows Network Shares in Ubuntu
ubuntu
nautilus
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05
Mar 2011
Slow Remote Login on OpenSolaris
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06
Mar 2011
Empathy Reports Network Error When Connecting to MSN
ubuntu
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07
Feb 2011
Updating rubygems on Ubuntu
ubuntu
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08
Feb 2011
Add Certificate to Java Keystore on OS X
java
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09
Jan 2011
rsyslog consumes excessive memory when forwarding logs with compression
rsyslog
forwarding
ubuntu
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10
Oct 2010
/etc/hosts entries not being used for non-root users
gentoo
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11
Mar 2010
The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor0, did not respond within the timeout period
intel
ICH10R
seagate
ST3500320AS
troubleshooting
windows 7
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12
Mar 2010
Git Subtree Merge and git-svn
howto
git-svn
recipe
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13
Feb 2010
Commit a linear git history to subversion
howto
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14
Feb 2010
Reformat and reindent an XML file
xml
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15
Feb 2010
xinetd per_source limit issues
xinetd
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16
Feb 2010
Reset The Windows Update Catalog
howto
windows 7
windows vista
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17
Jan 2010
Reset HP Integrated Lights Out Board to Factory Defaults
howto
hp
ilo
riloe
recovery
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18
Dec 2009
Honor Guest IDE/SATA Flush Requests
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19
Dec 2009
Replace Pipes with Tabs in a Delimited File
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20
Nov 2009
Remove a Range of Unwanted ZFS Snapshots from the Command Line
howto
zfs
snapshots
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21
Oct 2009
Disable X in OpenSolaris
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22
Oct 2009
Create a pidof command to find PID numbers easily
init
pid
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23
Oct 2009
Strip empty (null) lines from a file
text processing
sed
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24
Oct 2009
Disable Spotlight in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
macOS
spotlight
performance
text processing
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25
Oct 2009
Device Manager does not display devices that are not connected
howto
troubleshooting
Hardware
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26
Sep 2009
Clear Spotlight Index
macOS
apple
spotlight
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27
Aug 2009
Disable disk checking during boot on Linux systems
fsck
ext2
ext3
ext4
filesystem
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28
Aug 2009
Convert a .dmg to a .iso
dmg
iso
convert
macOS
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29
Aug 2009
Mirror a Directory Structure Using the Command Line
cmd
command prompt
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30
Aug 2009
C compiler cannot create executables received after emerge world
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31
Aug 2009
Shrink VirtualBox vdisks After Freeing Space (Windows guests)
compact
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32
Aug 2009
Create a Large File For Testing
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33
Aug 2009
Remote Mirroring Using nc and dd
sysadmin
howto
netcat
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34
Jul 2009
PowerDNS continually dies after creating a slave zone
dns
powerdns
fail
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35
Jul 2009
Intel Matrix Storage Console Reports SATA Drives as Generation 1 not 2
intel
sata
ICH10R
seagate
ST3500320AS
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36
Jul 2009
Cannot SSH into PIX/ASA firewall
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37
Jul 2009
rsync failed to set times on [filename]
howto
rsync
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38
Jul 2009
Create thumbnails en-masse from a bash prompt
howto
one-liner
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39
Jul 2009
Install VMware Tools on a Gentoo Guest
howto
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40
Jul 2009
Logical Volume Expansion with Linux
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41
Jul 2009
How To Backup data using Amanda and Amazon S3
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42
Jul 2009
Amanda amlabel CURL error: SSL certificate problem when using S3 buckets
gentoo
ssl
certificates
curl
s3
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43
Jul 2009
Where to score xVM Guest Additions
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44
Jul 2009
Setting up hosts.allow
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45
Jun 2009
Count the number of characters (or columns) in a file
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46
Jun 2009
Convert text file to UTF-8 encoding from the shell
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47
Jun 2009
Sort files according to their size
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48
May 2009
Change the UUID of a VirtualBox vdi disk file
howto
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49
May 2009
Add syslog forwarding host to syslog-ng
sysadmin
syslog-ng
monitoring
logging
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50
Apr 2009
gunzip and un-tar in a single command
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51
Apr 2009
Cannot join OpenSolaris CIFS service to Windows 2008 Domain
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52
Apr 2009
Ensure changes to ulimit parameters persist
centos
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53
Apr 2009
Recursively delete .svn directories
sysadmin
vcs
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54
Mar 2009
Interactive Command-line File Encryption
encryption
terminal
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55
Feb 2009
Flush DNS cache in OS X
mac
macOS
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56
Jan 2009
Setting up public key authentication over SSH
sysadmin
ssh
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57
Jan 2009
Remove SSL key file pass-phrase
sysadmin
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58
Dec 2008
Turn off Sun system beep
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