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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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Selecting CMS Software

February 21, 2013 – 11:45 pm
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If you are looking for an open-source content management system, your choices are likely to boil down to these three: Joomla!, WordPress, and Drupal. Professional CMS developers tend to disregard WordPress as a purely blogging …

How to Really Kill Computer Viruses

February 21, 2010 – 6:34 am

How do you know if your computer has a virus? Is it connected to the Internet? Then it has a virus. Many computer viruses and other malicious applications are very resilient and will actively resist any attempts to deactivate and remove them. Some viruses can even delete your antivirus application or prevent it from working properly. Many viruses cannot be effectively removed once they are loaded in memory and active.

Installing and Configuring Ganglia

March 25, 2008 – 4:19 pm
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Ganglia is a distributed performance monitoring application used primarily for tracking status of high-performance compute (HPC) clusters. Ganglia is a royal pain in the ass to install and configure even for a seasoned Unix sysadmin. …

Basic Exceed configuration

November 22, 2005 – 11:22 pm
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The following is a list of steps for basic configuration of Exceed to connect to Unix servers.

Apache MySQL PHP Solaris 8 Installation

November 21, 2005 – 11:03 am
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A sample procedure for installing PHP, MySQL and Apache2 on Solaris 8.