This is an update post to making an Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty Tahr) OS work with ZFS root volume. Mostly...

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Well kind of... When you are used to working in Python or any real language then Bash arrays are pre...

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In Solaris 11 package management got a lot better and is almost as good as APT in the Linux world. I...

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Most of the time when you are forced to access a system through an intermediate hop it is fairly tri...

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Sometimes you need to pass a password or even just a string on the command line which you would rath...

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Following is my notes on several Solaris 11 procedures. I just bunched it together but you may just...

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I generally prefer installing server with a very minimal footprint and just add what is necessary. T...

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In modern grep utilities can use -A (after) and -B (before) to return additional lines from your sea...

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Very short note on how I used SPICE for accessing a Windows 7 desktop running under KVM. SPICE and Q...

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Sometimes you have a Window client sitting around running an important piece of software and the har...

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Somewhere between Fedora 18 and 20 the default firewall switched to FirewallD. FirewallD is a replac...

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Just a few notes on getting the VirtualBox Guest Additions to work on Ubuntu 14.04 alpha1.

1. Un...

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Quick reminder of how to split a "ls -l" listing. It is problematic because the last field which is...

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webpy Example

A short write up on how to bootstrap a webpy app and at the same time show how to make a system call...

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Just a quick snippet on doing exclusions when you loop through a list.

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