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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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I got a note from Dave, asking how he could set up tftp quickly on CentOS (His happens to be 5.3, but this process should be pretty much the same on a handful of versions and distros), and get a…
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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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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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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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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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…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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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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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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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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