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I got a service call from our biggest customer on Sunday. The girl at the check in desk told me that she couldn’t get to the reservation system, so she couldn’t check customers in or out. She also could not open her email. And there was something about cooling equipment in the engine room that [...]

I usually use nmap to check which ports are open on a machine, be it the local machine or a remote one. Today i was reminded of two tools that do the same.
Netcat is a wonderful do-anything tool that can send data, listen (act as a server) or scan ports on the network. To test, [...]

How many times haven’t i come back to my computer and found that it has rebooted on me. At least KDE (and Firefox, and my pro-pimped IE) has session saving, but whatever was on the Windows desktop prior to the reboot … is no longer.
While Windows needs to reboot once in a while, the least [...]

Tomorrow is the last friday of June, and thus System Administrator Appreciation Day. Appreciate your sysadmin! He/she is the unsung hero of your network 364 days a year. Make tomorrow different.