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Solaris 11 Patch History

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Using the pkg history command you can take a look back and see what happened on your image.

Hard drive sanitisation - A homebrew approach

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The most efficient means of sanitising computers and/or a storage media device is to overwrite the entire device with zeroes or with a random pattern.

Nibbleblog plugin: Visitor Stats

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This plugin shows the number of visitors currently online, how many have visited today, yesterday, this week, this month, this year, and total visits.

Converting Nibbleblog .htaccess to IIS

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This post gives an example how to convert the .htaccess file provided with Nibbleblog when SEO is enabled into the equivalent IIS web.conf file.

World Backup Day 2014

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Until you need them, backups are a boring irritating waste of time. But when you need them, they can be an absolute life saver.

Testing ping with jumbo frames

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Depending on the OS you are running determinas which command and options to use in your testing.

DNS lookup process

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When a name query from a client computer cannot be resolved locally, DNS servers can be queried as needed to resolve the name.

Types of DNS Records

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This list of DNS record types is an overview of resource records (RRs) permissible in zone files of the Domain Name System (DNS).

Installing BMC Patrol Agent 9.5

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This topic describes how to perform a first-time installation of the BMC patrol agent, which includes the system collectors and service daemon.