07 Sep 2006

Web Based Site Monitoring Tools

Some praise for Site24x7.

tomayko.com   08:42

07 Jan 2008

Nmap for Beginners

I can never remember nmap args for some reason…

blog.fourthirty.org   00:42

06 Dec 2007

VMWare: Coming Out of the Cloud?

EC2 is my current pick for most interesting / innovative tech development of the year. Everyone will have to have an EC2 clone by the end of 2008.

redmonk.com   19:17

30 Sep 2007

Unison File Synchronizer - User Manual and Reference Guide

I’m gonna give this a try for managing home directories now that I’ve convinced myself that version control is the wrong solution. I moved my homes from CVS to SVN a couple years ago and just tried going with bzr but VCS just isn’t right here.

cis.upenn.edu   06:54

13 Apr 2007

What to watch out for when writing portable shell scripts

Nice look at techniques for writing portable sh.

programming.newsforge.com   11:34

10 Apr 2007

ZFS Basics Screencast [opensolaris.org]

I haven’t had a chance to play yet but you can consider me on the ZFS bandwagon. It’s coming to FreeBSD 7.0, too. Oodalolly!

opensolaris.org   14:21

21 Feb 2007

UNIX® Load Average Part 1: How It Works

Love it! This is less of an article and more of a minute by minute account of hacker seeing something he doesn’t understand and following the trail (man, code, calculus) to understanding.

teamquest.com   06:15

07 Sep 2006

How to make multiple SSH connections to the same host faster

All you have to do is add a few lines to ~/ssh/config.

revsys.com   06:32

07 Mar 2006

Re: [rdiff-backup-users] OSX and capital letters issue?

How to get rdiff-backup to not do that.

lists.gnu.org   13:31