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May 31, 2013Instead of manually rearranging windows in a development environment time and time again, the Tmux terminal multiplexer can restore them from a configuration script.
more »Charly's Column: Snoopy The sys admin's daily grind: Snoopy
May 31, 2013Sometimes sys admin Charly needs to know when exactly he did something ingenious on one of his servers. Finding an infallible memory aid is difficult, you might think. "Peanuts!" says Charly.
more »Traffic Watch Analyzing Network Traffic with iftop
May 01, 2013Sluggish network connections can be nerve-wracking. Checking live statistics about network traffic can help pinpoint the problem. Iftop is a command-line system monitoring tool that can help you identify bandwidth hogs and keep traffic moving.
more »Coping with the UEFI Boot Process New Sheriff
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more »Charly's Column: ifdata The sys admin’s daily grind – ifdata Info
Jan 23, 2013Script-friendly ifdata from the Moreutils package delivers absolutely precise network interface status information, with no need to extract individual values.
more »Timeline Tools Four timeline tools tested
Jan 23, 2013Back in 1962, the threat of a third world war loomed for 13 days, but what happened during the Cuban missile crisis and when? What was the timing of events for the first moon landing? Four timeline tools present complex topics of world history and current affairs in clear context.
more »ngrep: Network Grep Network grep
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more »Tune Your Hard Disk with hdparm Disk Inspector: Retrieving and setting hard drive parameters with hdparm
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