Packet sniffers, or protocol analyzers as they’re sometimes called are useful network administration tools. Admins will use them to look at network traffic much like highway traffic cameras monitor traffic on the roadways. How much traffic is there? Where is it all coming from and going to? What kind of traffic [...]
You can make backups, but if you can’t restore from them you’re just wasting your time. This clip, according to the Pixar employees who made it, is 99% true. An admin at Pixar ran RM* (a UNIX/Linux command to remove everything) on the wrong server—the one storing Toy Story 2. They thought, no problem, [...]
If you’re interested in learning about Linux you should know about DistroWatch. They keep a Page Hit Ranking table on their homepage, which allows one to easily see which distributions are trending in the Linux community, and one can get a pretty complete thumbnail sketch of what a distribution [...]
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