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Books have been written on the subject of awk and sed. Here’s a small sample of commands I put together over the years that are useful for everyday system administration tasks. Most of these tasks …

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January 23, 2006 – 12:48 am
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ASP.NET developers have been spoiled by intuitive but inflexible GUIs and IDEs. These Microsoft tools (and various third-party add-ons) make your life as a programmer relatively painless; but only as long as you don’t try …

Accessing Samba server in DMZ

January 22, 2006 – 2:04 pm
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This note explains how to access a Samba server located on the “orange” DMZ subnet from a Windows PC on the “green” LAN. The problem for Samba is caused by the firewall blocking NETBIOS responses. …