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rssh
Jailing sftp/scp connections (1206.12) Short notes: this uses the rssh functionality from rpmforg...
Remote X Display
Displaying Remote X Applications On Your Local Display ...ie, connect to a remote machine, run th...
Process Accounting
(26 September 2012) Process Accounting # chkconfig psacct on; service psacct start This will cre...
NVidia Multihead
Problem I am running a CentOS 5.3 x86_64 (fully updated as of today). It has a video card I canno...
NFS File Creation Cache Problems
Problem If I create a file on an nfs-mounted filesystem on one machine, the file may not be immed...
kickstart POST nfs mount
Mounting nfs file systems in the %POST section of a CentOS 5 kickstart mount 172.20.0.1:/home /mn...
Building Subversion 1.85
(2014-01-16) Problem I want to run Subversion v1.85, client and server, on CentOS 5 (today's vict...
A Pox On Your Freedom
(2011-12-04) Jonathan Zittrain explains that the personal computer is dead because our computing ...
Calculating 95th Percentile
(2018-04-05) TL/DR: If you want something done right, you have to check the math and be willing t...
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...
Superstitions
(2013-08-15) 11:03:49 < xdroop> I just pulled another private /24 out of my ass for overlapping u...