This is probably old news to most of you, but I just found out: Samba v 3.5+ has a new option for flexible mapping...

This is a follow-up to my previous wget notes (1, 2, 3, 4). From time to time I find myself googling wget syntax even though I...

Just some quick notes on setting up Oracle Sun T-series server ILOM and network aggregation with LACP. I don't get to do this very...

Below is a collection of useful Power-CLI one-liners (or thereabouts) that can speed up your script-writing efforts. As everything Windows, things change often and...

Recently I've been decommissioning old DNS servers and those things are notoriously hard to get rid of. The problem was that the IP addresses...

Google has some advanced search features that few people use, which is a shame. Here are some of them. I am sure there are...

There are several tools you can use to verify access to a remote network port: nc, tcping, telnet. Unfortunately, nc from the netcat package has been...

This is a simple wrapper for the awesome rsync-time-backup script by Laurent Cozic. Through clever use of hard links rsync-time-backup greatly speeds up incremental backups and...

This is a small collection of tools and examples for working with IP addresses and ranges in Bash. This post is not meant to...