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Hello from our new Dell Vostro 1500 laptop!
We just got this laptop for my wife to use at home, but I thought I should spend a few minutes getting everything up and working (and blog about it). Generally speaking, I'm a Mac guy, but this laptop is pretty sweet …
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This is just a quick note for you DNS operators out there.
Mark Andrews of ISC has notified the bind-announce mailing list that L.ROOT-SERVERS.NET has changed it's ip address to 199.7.83.42. Mark's suggested method for updating your BIND hints file is as follows:
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This comes up pretty infrequently, but I think it's worth knowing. I specifically had a situation where I was greping hostnames out of a file. Personally, I like hostnames to appear in all uppercase, but this file was full of hostnames in all lowercase. You can solve the problem with …
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You may run into a case where you are running a name server (perhaps a caching-only name server) that is not allowed to communicate with Internet name servers. The most common case for this is a local caching name server being blocked by a corporate or <acronym title="Internet Service …
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Personally, my data isn't so important that I need to keep years of it backed up to tape. Obviously, that isn't always the case in a corporate environment, but luckily that's not a problem for me.
That being said, I do like to have at least a week's worth of …
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I recently installed Microsoft Windows XP Pro in Parallels Desktop on my iMac. After going through the usual motions of updates and tweaks, I set up my user account so that I wouldn't be using the built-in Administrator account. After rebooting the virtual machine, I noticed that on restart, I …
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When working in an office environment, it's very easy to gather multiple administrators into one office and show them how a task is done. If, on the other hand, your administrators are spread out, these impromptu meetings are nearly impossible. GNU Screen (in multiuser mode) can solve all your problems …
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Although this site isn't about job searches, the fact of the matter is that most network and system administrators have an interest in getting paid for their efforts. (Personally, I didn't get into Cisco networking for the glamorous parties with Paris Hilton, but maybe you did?)
J.D. at Get …
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This post relates to pre-Leopard versions of Mac OS X. Unfortunately, Leopard hosts that are configured via DHCP use the DHCP assigned DNS server before any statically configured servers. Check out the next post in this series to find the necessary tweaks for Leopard.
If you've been following along in …
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If you've ever had to administer a Mac OS X system from afar, you know how difficult it can be to manage network settings. The Network Preference Panel under System Preferences is a great tool if you have remote access to the <acronym title="Graphical User Interface">GUI</acronym>, but …
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