Boost EIDE performance on new motherboards
Unusual motherboard? Accelerate your EIDE performance with these experimental kernel patches for 2.2.x .
Monday, October 18, 1999 05:47:26 AM EST

boot an alternate kernel for one reboot only
lilo -v -R old
Wednesday, October 20, 1999 08:11:31 AM EST

Disable external X11 for greater security
Turn off this often overlooked service
Sunday, October 24, 1999 05:35:35 AM EST

Distribute /etc/passwd among several machines securely
Use rsync, ssh and cron.
Tuesday, October 26, 1999 06:37:28 AM EST

Find all the configuration scripts on a system
With this handy perl one liner
Saturday, October 30, 1999 05:59:12 AM EST

Get your disk back quicker after a crash or powerfail
Get your disk back quicker
Friday, October 29, 1999 05:05:12 AM EST

list all files in directory tree that contain a search string
find . -type f -print | xargs grep -li "find me"
Thursday, October 21, 1999 09:47:26 AM EST

Network security basics
Two "must do" points: install ssh and shut off services in inetd.conf.
Wednesday, November 3, 1999 03:11:39 PM EST

Power down from software
Compile in APM kernel options.
Thursday, October 28, 1999 05:59:12 AM EST

Put the path in your xterm titlebar
export PS1=$PS1"\[\e]0;\H:\w\a\]"
Saturday, October 23, 1999 08:20:28 AM EST

Quick and dirty net sniffing
Analyse tcpdump output with a perl "one liner"
Tuesday, October 26, 1999 02:59:12 PM EST

Random Passwords
head -c8 /dev/random | uuencode -m - | sed -n '2s/=*$//;2p'
Monday, October 25, 1999 10:37:28 AM EST

See what network services are really running
netstat -vat
Wednesday, October 27, 1999 12:11:39 AM EST

See which sockets belong to which processes
lsof | grep -i "program"
Sunday, October 31, 1999 06:11:39 AM EST

Undo an untar in the wrong place
tar tfz filename.tar.gz | xargs rm
Tuesday, October 19, 1999 05:47:26 AM EST

Update debian slink to XFree86 version 3.3.5
Install XFree86 version 3.3.5, with Matrox G400 support and other great features.
Friday, October 22, 1999 05:37:28 AM EST