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    Remote install question

    Glad you got them going. :) Jumpstart's not so bad, and the documentation is great.
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    Remote install question

    Workstations with no optical? If they're that old they probably won't support any recent updates of Solaris 10. If you want to use the latest update then make sure they have 1GB RAM. Jumpstart is the way to go. You can just grab a Solaris VM and fire it up in virtualbox to serve everything out...
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    MBoard for dual Quad Core Xeon X5365

    That one has a pretty good price on eBay, good call.
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    Ping 10.0.0.99...Reply from 10.0.0.102????

    It's a little bit weird, but not unheard of. Almost certainly has nothing to do with proxies, though (wrong layer).
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    Why are 19 inch server rack enclosures SO expensive?

    Racks are expensive when you want them, and worthless when you want to sell them. Set up IFTTT to troll local Craigslist and eBay listings. About 6-7 years back I got a 32U 4-post with a 2U 1500VA UPS, 3ea 4U chassis with rails (they had Athlon 700 servers in them, garbage), three fixed...
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    Remote desktop software for that provides a near native experience over LAN

    NoMachine's NX solutions are very responsive (and the FreeNX open source project).
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    Shellshock Bash Vulnerability

    alcohol, for/while loops, or ignoring them until they go away. :D
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    Why is df outputting all this named stuff?

    What's in /proc/mounts ?
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    Resize an LVM partition

    Just about every livecd/usb will have lvm tools installed where you can perform LVM administration. Centos ISO files from 6.5 and up can be dd'ed out to a USB stick.
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    Shellshock Bash Vulnerability

    It's an automation command to yum update bash on all servers known to ansible. That's about 3200 linux servers for me.
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    Shellshock Bash Vulnerability

    so far every time this comes up I just run ansible all --sudo -m yum -a 'name=bash state=latest' and then go expense food at Denny's.
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    Questions about running ssh from public wifi

    Seconding the recommendation to use public key authentication and set PermitRootLogin to no. I would also recommend disabling password authentication altogether after you get the public key auth part figured out. Seconding the VPN recommendation. You can just use duckdns or something for a...
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    fail2ban syntax

    But how did they know your usernames? There are 218,340,105,584,896 combinations in an 8-char alphanumeric PW. This isn't a large key space for offline attacks, but it's not something that's even possible in a couple of hours for remote. 8-Char Alphanumeric: Time Required to Exhaustively...
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    fail2ban syntax

    What I would do here is just VPN home, and use dynamic DNS at home. Then you can pop3/pop3s or ssh as you want. See duckdns The changing IP isn't an insurmountable issue for firewall whitelisting, you can just run a dig against a dynamic dns address every so often via a cron job to create an...
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    How difficult is it to get 2 video cards to work in Ubuntu?

    You shouldn't really need to edit xorg, hotplug should be able to pick up new devices when they come up. I would try to stay with the same chipset vendor across cards, as the management tools can make life a little easier.
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    fail2ban syntax

    Is this a public ssh/sftp box? If not, could you come from the other end and just whitelist the authorized devices? I'm not a big fan of ssh jails with fail2ban, it just doesn't bring a lot to the table for ssh in particular.
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    CLI with style?

    `cat` uses 4KiB buffers by default and is a little more efficient than `dd` because it doesn't use memcpy. It can be possible that the args for your `dd if=` are not optimal for the destination `of=`, so you separate them by a pipe. And in those cases, among others,`cat` can be better for the...
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    Looking for best / easiest Linux firewall.

    I was really impressed by this. I ended up building my router from SL6, but ClearOS surprised me, and I was just testing 5.2. I like that you have the GUI, but you can drop to a console and run "yum install nmap"
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    tips on how to batten down the hatches? have strange ip logins

    I derive a strange sense of satisfaction from doing this.
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    Software Loadout

    xmonad, claws-mail, xterm, openssh, cssh, screen, parallel
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    tips on how to batten down the hatches? have strange ip logins

    Since you're running Cent 5 you can use the RHEL 5 guide from CIS http://benchmarks.cisecurity.org/en-us/?route=downloads.show.single.rhel5.200 If you have dynamic dns set up home (and assuming your hostname is oneofusjustin.dyndns.org) , you can set up a template /etc/hosts.allow in...
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    Why can't we prevent spoofed phone number telemarketers?

    The problem has to be significant enough to address. Got any info on that?
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    Another Victim of OCZ

    Put the G2s on the phone.
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    What's eating my HDD space?

    Ubuntu has a tool called Baobab that you can run to figure out your space usage. It should be listed under Applications->Disk Usage Analyzer.
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    VNC over LAN as a hardcore "docking station" for Netbooks?

    What OS are you running on each end?
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    Another Victim of OCZ

    copies=3 on the filesystem for my uber-important data
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    Help me explain cores and threads to my neighbor

    we're all extremely clever and there's no one standing around to look impressed.
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    Have you ever had a processor fail on you?

    yes, just sparc chips in all fairness they did spend a few days running without any air conditioning, and got hot enough to pop the epoxied heatsink right off the chips. dead netras everywhere!
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    Help me explain cores and threads to my neighbor

    hyperthreading doesn't match up well with normal threading analogies. in a normal situation explaining threading i like to use the Oracle T3 processor to explain, as it has 8 whole threads per core. you basically have 8 workloads, waiting to be processed, and then one functional unit that can...
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    fail thread

    sing along, everyone! To the tune of "I shot the Sheriff"-- "I stole the Presler, but I did not steal the Larrabee."
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    Help! I want DDR 400

    Your ram should show 3GB inside the BIOS. Inside the OS it will report less because of memory remapping. If you have a BIOS screen where you can see all of the RAM slots, please make sure that all of them report correctly. It's hard to say definitively which is better, because it depends on...
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    Help! I want DDR 400

    If all of the memory slots are full, the board and IMC can only drive DDR333.
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    I'm at a loss, what keeps crashing my system?

    Good luck. This type of problem is particularly hard to track down. My Ubunter 10.04 install at work decided to do the "hung task" thing any time I would run `apt-get upgrade`. I could read the disk end to end without any problems. No hardware problems that I could find. puppet/aide never found...
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    Is Linux still picky about hardware?

    Ah. You're less of a fanatic than I had assumed. Are there any web sites you won't visit because of their use of closed source code? For instance, this forum uses non-GPL code, while phpBB is licensed under the GPL.
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    Is Linux still picky about hardware?

    You've stated before that GPL compatibility was important. Obviously you're fine with nVidia's code license, but what other GPL breaches do you feel are acceptable, and under what circumstances?
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    Problem with Ubuntu C program terminal

    I'm pretty sure there's no fix for this in plain csh It works in tcsh, though.
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    GPUGRID - idle gpu's to use

    almost twelve years
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    Free Deployment/Imaging options?

    Have you heard of Fog?