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(This article was updated for technical accuracy, and tested, 20100109. I’ve been chasing packages, across URLs, across the ‘Net… Ugh… ) My previous iFolder-related cheat-sheets here on this blog have been reasonably popular (see the ifolder3 category for reference). I…
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I run quite a few Opensuse (mostly 11.1 at the time of this writing) servers in what you might call “pseudo-production” mode. For some of those servers, and especially for my test lab servers, I like to have them as…
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While working with a customer today, we were solving some silly problems that cropped up while patching his OES2sp1 Linux servers. Some nonsense about Mozilla dependencies on 64-bit servers (see Novell TID 7004278 for details on that). But that’s not…
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As a consultant in the Novell-related side of things, I have configured a handful of OES2 Linux servers to be Samba-aware for the end-users. But for some reason, I always forget one particular step. And I figured that if I…
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Backups are great. Yes, I’m that guy that loves backups. Of course everyone uses an off-line, off-site backup system like JungleDisk, right? Or if you’re lucky enough to have your own personal cloud, then you’ve got that covered from that…
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Update, 20091023: Please see post http://yourlinuxguy.com/?p=314 for more updated information… back to the original post… I got this question the other day from Steve: I use “rug up” to update all of my SLES/OES2 servers and it works great when…
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I got this question from my good friend Matt the other day (edited for brevity): I was just thinking about taking an old box or two […] and use it as a thin client to connect to […] Microsoft Terminal…
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There are lots of ways to design and run your dhcp server and environment. Over the years, I’ve kinda’ fallen in-and-out of love with DHCP clustering; I’ve just come to the conclusion that it is more trouble than it’s worth. …
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I like the agedu utility. I recently found it while searching the ‘net, and I want to thank all involved with it (see the page for credits and info). This neat utility helps you get a general understanding of two…
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