Cool bash completion trick…
Here’s a cool trick for you folks… If you regularly ssh to a set of servers in your server farm, but don’t like having to type out the full hostname on the command line (or can’t remember all the ip…
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Why aren’t my files listed in order?
A friend of mine was looking for a file using Nautilus while logged in as root on a SLE server. He was looking for a particular file that started with a capital “S”, and simply could not seem to find…
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What ever happened to unix2dos in SLES?
Why did they take unix2dos away from the SLES distribution and all standard (read: supported) repositories? Honestly, I don’t know. I use it all the time. I’m pretty sure it used to be included in SLES, and it’s still in…
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The 5 coolest things I learned at Novell’s ATT Live…
I learned lots of cool stuff last week while I was out in Provo, Utah, at Novell’s ATT Live sessions. There was simply not enough time to attend all the class sessions I wanted (in the 4 days I was…
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I may be forced to revert (because of iFolder) to Opensuse 11.0!
…and I’m not happy about it. Oh, its not really Suse’s fault directly. Or Opensuse’s fault specifically. In fact it is a combination of faults, including my own. But mostly, it is Novell’s fault. You see, I cannot live without…
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What is your favorite Linux-related podcast?
Okay readers, I need your help. I have been listening to LugRadio for its entire 5-season run, and was really saddened to hear that they’ve gone off the “air” mid-2008. Some background on me… You see, I ride a motorcycle…
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How do I set up iFolder3.6 on SLES10?
Here is my version of a “cheat-sheet” for installing iFolder3.6 on SLES10sp2 (It is based on — and is almost the same as — my earlier cheat-sheet based on iFolder3.6 on Opensuse10.3, with minor differences). This cheat-sheet kinda’ leaves you…
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How do I migrate iFolder 3.6 to a new SLES 10 server?
Today’s question comes from Stan Chelchowski. Here’s the essential part of what he wrote: “How do you migrate open source iFolder server and corresponding iFolders to new hardware? Both are running SLES10. Can this all be done by copying directories between…
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How to in-place upgrade from Opensuse 11 to 11.1?
So you are all excited about the new Opensuse 11.1. Me too. So you want to do an in-place upgrade? Me too. Read on… Thanks to Benjamin over at: http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/bweber/entry/upgrading_opensuse_103/ …I adapted his Opensuse 10.3 to 11.0 in-place upgrade to…
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How can I automatically reboot a windows machine that lost connectivity?
Yep, it’s a windows question again folks! A while back, I wrote a cute little batch script for a Win2k3 server that is a VMWare guest, that kept losing connectivity to the VMNetwork. The guest itself was up and fine,…
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