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I have an Opensuse 12.1 workstation that I use as a script “toolbox”, out in the regular cubicle space where I work. Because it sits smack-dab in the middle of a DHCP-based environment — and the corporate policy is to…
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There’s just nothing like iFolder. And soon (if not already), there may not even be iFolder. Make sure to stop by the noFolder.com site, read Dan’s plea, and vote in his “What is iFolder worth to you?” poll. You see,…
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For about as long as I’ve been able to spell “bash”, I’ve seen the debates on the ‘Net about the proper way to use the shell to loop through a text file line-by-line (rather than item-by-item). Of the small handful…
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Following up my last post, “X11Forwarding Fails on Opensuse 12.1 with IPv6 Disabled“, there are a couple postfix items that seem to need to be cleaned up on all my servers. IPv4-Only If you get this error: Apr 10 18:35:53…
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I’m one of those people that still disables IPv6 on all my Linux boxes. And, I guess I’m being punished for it, since if you disable IPv6 on Opensuse, then X11Forwarding will no longer function in its default form. The…
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It looks like some people are working very hard out there to try and preserve iFolder for future versions of Opensuse. To those people (the NoFolder crew, Ravi Kumar, etc.), I’m indebted; I simply would be at a loss without…
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Recently, I needed to create a one-address-per-line email address list, using only an existing Exchange group mailbox as input. First we start in Windows… I opened Outlook and prepared to create a new email and typed in the email group. …
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DNS can be a funny and unpredictable beast. It is paramount that the DNS environment be stable and standardized in large environments, as well as small. But in large environments particularly, you run into some weird happenings… Like for instance,…
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This is a common problem for many folks around the Internet. You do some sort of an upgrade in WordPress, and you lose your “Visual” tab in the editing page, or you lose your buttons, etc.; all you have left…
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I use bash to do almost everything. Even when I’m neck-deep in Windows and I need to solve a problem, my first thought is a bash script. Recently, I was working in a large distributed enterprise that utilizes Microsoft KMS…
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