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Parted Magic: Erase A Hard Drive
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 the secure wipe or deletion...
Read More Install Munin In Five Minutes On Ubuntu 10.04
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 make an informed decision about...
Read More Simple Samba Server Configuration
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.
In this tutorial I will demonstrate...
Read More Compare Hashes With md5deep – Part 2
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 an entire directory using the output...
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