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Blog Entry One more reason to choose Open Source over Windows
Blog Entry How to avoid errors with smartd when hard disks spun down
Blog Entry Hardening a Linux server in 10 minutes
Did you know that a freshly installed Linux server can be hardened in less than 10 minutes? Here's how!
Blog Entry Making Windows XP join a SAMBA domain in 5 minutes
How to get a Windows XP Professional or Server to join a SAMBA domain running on a Linux server.
Blog Entry Tuning a MySQL server in 5 minutes
How to get MySQL to run optimally with the resources you have, or to scale MySQL down in resource-constrained environments.
Blog Entry Tuning an Apache server in 5 minutes
How to get Apache to run fine without stampeding occurring in high-traffic, low-resource situations.
Blog Entry Setting up a mail server using Postfix in 5 minutes
Blog Entry A solution to an obscure Network UPS Tools problem
Blog Entry Firestarter vs. Wondershaper on cable modems
Blog Entry Automating Nagios service checks via SSH
Nagios can let you sleep sound at night. Here's a collection of tips you can use to make its services even better.
Blog Entry RPM hell, part two
Blog Entry RPM hell: a real-life scenario
Blog Entry Call to arms: two system management applications we sorely need in Linux land
Diagnosing server (and desktop, and network) load issues is always tricky. When an application misbehaves for short bursts of time, it's often a matter of ...
Blog Entry What's with the ReiserFS data safety thing?
Blog Entry My Internet connection slows down when I download -- how can I speed it up?
Blog Entry The shell challenge: changing another process' working directory
Blog Entry Diagnosing a problem on Linux vs. Windows
Blog Entry Controlling runaway processes on Linux
Blog Entry Upgrade your Ubuntu: the one-liner version
Blog Entry How to automate torrent downloads using TorrentFlux-b4rt, cron and rsync
Blog Entry A primer into software package management using RPM
Blog Entry Monitoring Dirvish backup servers using Nagios
Dirvish is an excellent disk-based rotating backup application. Nagios is a fabulous service monitor. Combine the two using this Nagios plugin and you will ...
Blog Entry ZFS on Linux: my story and HOWTO you can have it too
The best filesystem ever invented is now available on Linux. Here's a short story with instructions to set it up on your computer.
Blog Entry NoMachine NX fails on Fedora 9 -- here's the solution
Blog Entry 5 minutes to finding issues in production PHP Web applications
Blog Entry Repairing unbootable Windows XP systems with one command
Blog Entry How to move a Plone or Zope site (instance) to another folder or computer safely
It's not just a matter of moving the files... but it's not hard either.
Blog Entry Using Varnish to capitalize on image hotlinkers and retain referred visitors
Hotlinkers suck your bandwidth dry, but referrals are valuable to you. Learn how to use Varnish to stop image hotlinkers while at the same time welcoming ...
Blog Entry Starting ZFS-FUSE up properly
ZFS is the best filesystem ever invented. And FUSE brings it to Linux. There are, however, some caveats you need to keep in mind if you want to start it ...
Blog Entry How to create big-ass empty files in milliseconds
A small trick that will help you when you need a file that is multi-gigabytes in size, but you don't have hours to wait for it to be written to disk.