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  • Parted Magic: Erase A Hard Drive

    Parted Magic: Erase A Hard Drive

    Posted on June 30, 2010 | 1 Comment
    I have blogged several times before about Parted Magic the open source live distribution that can do pretty much anything(test, backup, partition) when dealing with drives. This time I will focus on a specific tool found on Parted Magic meant to provide a method for...

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  • Install Munin In Five Minutes On Ubuntu 10.04

    Install Munin In Five Minutes On Ubuntu 10.04

    Posted on June 16, 2010 | 2 Comments
    Not knowing what is going on a server can be a recipe for disaster. That’s why I use Munin a networked resource monitoring tool that is both simple to install and understand. Munin graphs server performance over time, administrators can later use this information to...

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  • Simple Samba Server Configuration

    Simple Samba Server Configuration

    Posted on May 17, 2010 | No Comments
    Samba is a print and file sharing implementation of the SMB/CIFS protocol that is free and open source. Samba provides seamless file and print services to Linux and Windows clients alike. While the clients may be Windows the file/print server will be a Linux/Unix-like system....

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  • Compare Hashes With md5deep – Part 2

    Compare Hashes With md5deep – Part 2

    Posted on May 11, 2010 | No Comments
    Previous Post: Hash a directory with md5deep. On a previous post I discussed how md5deep can be used to hash an entire directory recursively and output the results to a single file for later verification. Now I will demonstrate how to verify the integrity of...

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