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Category Archives: General
Ken Thompson & Dennis Richie ~ The basics of UNIX
Hi all, Just wanted to share with you this awesome heritage and legacy video from the 80′s about Ken Thompson and Dennis Richie explaining the basics of UNIX. Really cool stuff
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Telephone numbers visible on Facebook
Not too long ago I got a message from ‘a friend’ on facebook stating that he knew my telephone number. Jokingly I asked him to tell me how he got it. “From Facebook”, he told me. Surprised as I was, … Continue reading
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Tagged facebook, mobile, mobile number, number, privacy, private, telephone, telephone number, visible
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10 useful commandline utilities for FreeBSD
Here’s a list of useful commandline utilities for FreeBSD. For all you admins out there… MTR MTR is a traceroute…sort of. It uses ping packets though, not the standard traceroute icmp packets (configurable) SCREEN Screen keeps your terminal session … Continue reading
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Tagged bsd, commandline, freebsd, log, logfiles, open source, process, screen, shell, tool, util, utilities, utility
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Securing GRUB
Although many unix and linux users do their every best to secure their Linux or BSD type system as tight as possible, many do also forget that the bootloader they are starting up from is freely accessible and changeable at … Continue reading
Posted in General, How-To, Linux Tips, Unix Tips
Tagged boot, bootloader, grub, linux, loader, password, secure, unix
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Zombie processes and how to handle them
If you are an experienced UNIX or Linux administrator you probably know this already, but this question came to me lately, and I found it worth a little article. What is a Zombie Process ? A zombie process is a … Continue reading
