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Ping WAN from LAN
(2024-10-10) Problem: Ping WAN interface IP from LAN Solution: Pinging from an internal host to a...
Ping things from Palo Alto
(2024-10-10) Problem: I want to ping something. Solution: ping host 1.1.1.1
Hi-Availability - Out of Sync Peers
(2024-09-09) Problem: WARNING: The running configuration is not currently synchronized to the HA ...
Display configuration in set statements
2024-09-09 Problem xml is hard to read Solution set cli config-output-format set Now when in con...
Label Maker
(2014-ish) What has been my best moment in IT? There have been several moments -- how about the o...
Too Clever For My Own Good
(2018 sometime) 15 years ago, I accidentally ran a complicated shell command that muffed a couple...
Unclean
Why the fuck do PC guys think that they can "clean" infected PCs? I'm old-school unix -- if there...
Why Do Blackberry Apps Suck So Much?
(21 September 2011) The Problem The problem with the Blackberry App (or AppStore App (or whatever...
Why Build From Source?
Question: Why would anyone in their right mind build and install software from source code? (orig...
When Tools Just Work
(12 January 2007) This is just a little story illustrating what happens when you use the best too...
Five User Experience Principles
Five User Experience Principles Keep it simple. But not simpler. Keep scalability in mind. End u...
User Environment Churn
or, It Will Happen To You Too, Kid (15 November 2011) I had to laugh the other week. Some Ubuntu ...
The Tennents Of Buellerism
Get along with everyone. Strive to be welcomed by all: the sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bl...
The War On Email
(11 January 2012) There seems to be an almost-declared war on email going these days. I have read...
Hardware or Software RAID?
The question is usually framed as Is Hardware RAID better than software RAID? Well actually it's ...
Dave's Tao of Network Documentation
This is a page which includes my thoughts on documenting a live, running network. It will be perp...
Notes About Network Attached Storage
You have multiple places for problems to occur. Performance areas are: how fast can your disks (...
Mixed-Mode Filesystems Still Suck
Problem Doing an rsync to a filer, the user gets gratuitous errors: rsync: mkstemp "$LONGPATH/$FI...
Mixed-Mode Filesystems Suck
Problem Mixed-mode file systems suck. You'll have to be a bit more specific. Someone applied a CI...
Know who you are paging
(5 October 2011) So a long time ago, the company I worked for at the time decided that the head o...