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Notes About Network Attached Storage
You have multiple places for problems to occur. Performance areas are: how fast can your disks (...
Dave's Tao of Network Documentation
This is a page which includes my thoughts on documenting a live, running network. It will be perp...
Networking 10 Commandments
Thou shalt above all, maintain the integrity of the network. Thou shalt have a long term strateg...
Seriously, Oracle?
(May 6, 2010) Recent History At one of my customer sites, I have a pile of Sun X2200-M2 systems. ...
Superstitions
(2013-08-15) 11:03:49 < xdroop> I just pulled another private /24 out of my ass for overlapping u...
The War On Email
(11 January 2012) There seems to be an almost-declared war on email going these days. I have read...
The Tennents Of Buellerism
Get along with everyone. Strive to be welcomed by all: the sportos, motorheads, geeks, sluts, bl...
User Environment Churn
or, It Will Happen To You Too, Kid (15 November 2011) I had to laugh the other week. Some Ubuntu ...
When Tools Just Work
(12 January 2007) This is just a little story illustrating what happens when you use the best too...
Why Build From Source?
Question: Why would anyone in their right mind build and install software from source code? (orig...
Why Do Blackberry Apps Suck So Much?
(21 September 2011) The Problem The problem with the Blackberry App (or AppStore App (or whatever...
Unclean
Why the fuck do PC guys think that they can "clean" infected PCs? I'm old-school unix -- if there...
Too Clever For My Own Good
(2018 sometime) 15 years ago, I accidentally ran a complicated shell command that muffed a couple...
Label Maker
(2014-ish) What has been my best moment in IT? There have been several moments -- how about the o...
A Pox On Your Freedom
(2011-12-04) Jonathan Zittrain explains that the personal computer is dead because our computing ...
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
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...
Hi-Availability - Out of Sync Peers
(2024-09-09) Problem: WARNING: The running configuration is not currently synchronized to the HA ...
Show Logs From Console
(2024-09-18) SW# show logging