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I hate losing useful SQL queries, so I tend to save them. Ever so often, I stumble across a file of queries from some work I was doing months ago. The following two queries are just such a case. I was analyzing some call data for a call center that …

It seems like I have been working with Mac OS X serial ports a lot lately. Since the Mac in question is hundreds of miles away, I've been doing all of this via the command line using tools like kermit and minicom. One error that we ran into recently was …

Considering the economy and the crunch that many IT departments are feeling, it is no surprise that many small to medium businesses are curious about using Microsoft's free security product as a replacement to the enterprise security solutions they have been using. Individual businesses will have to decide if Microsoft …

If you find yourself in the situation where a Cisco 7200 series router has a corrupted IOS image or the flash drive has gone on the blink, the following documents may be useful to you. Not all of these documents are Cisco 7200 specific, but they are all useful.

• Standard …

If you've worked on networks long enough, you're probably familiar with iperf. This application is great for testing throughput between two computers on your network. Unfortunately, if you find yourself in a situation where you have less than two computers to test with, iperf is less than ideal.

Fortunately, Cisco …

This is one of those annoying little things I have to do ever so often. There are two different commands to accomplish this task depending on the specific situation.

If you've made a lot of changes to a file and need to back all of those changes out, you can …

I got a call from GoDaddy the other day warning me that VeriSign is raising the price of domain registrations. This seems like a big deal because the price hike is happening on July 1st. The truth, though, is that VeriSign announced the price increase six months ago in December …

If you have SSH open toward the Internet, you are surely aware of the number of brute force password attempts your server sees everyday. Although a good password policy may make these attempts nothing more than an annoyance, each connection to your SSH daemon takes up valuable server resources. I …

If you've ever seen this, you've felt my pain:

# mount -vv -t nfs4 slap:/export/a/b/c /mnt
mount: pinging: prog 100003 vers 4 prot tcp port 2049
mount.nfs4: slap:/export/a/b/c failed, reason given by server: No such file or directory

My original thought was …

Viewing and changing the time zone in Mac OS X via the command line uses the systemsetup command:

$ sudo systemsetup -gettimezone
Time Zone: US/Eastern
$ sudo systemsetup -listtimezones
<snipped>
$ sudo systemsetup -settimezone US/Central
Set TimeZone: US/Central
$ sudo systemsetup -gettimezone
Time Zone: US/Central

This command is available both …

I recently needed to archive a bunch of old home directories on a CIFS share mounted on my Windows XP virtual machine. I wanted each home directory to be archived independently so that I would have lots of smaller zip files rather than one huge one. Additionally, maintaining the directory …

Network Appliance (NetApp) advanced single-instance storage (A-SIS) deduplication is a free technology that ships with every NetApp filer. The technology works at the block level to efficiently compress volumes so that you can get more data in a limited space. All the deduplication setup and maintenance operations are controlled with …

The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) released a summary of Round 1 BIP project awards yesterday via the BroadbandUSA.gov website. The document summarizes 68 projects and includes data collated from 6 press releases.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 appropriated \$7.2 billion to “expand broadband access to …

Before version 1.8, Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook did not support automatic updating of your domain's Global Address List (GAL). Domain administrators were forced to creating a static copy of the GAL and make that available to Outlook via a change in the desktop's registry. With the latest …