Dave Cheney

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name Dave Cheney
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    A chaotic neutral System Administrator with super cow powers. My weapons are:
  • fear
  • cynicism
  • an almost fanatical devotion to the command line
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Answers
18
Why do https connections take longer to establish than straight http connections ?
17
Physical server security
17
How can I monitor hard disk load on linux
15
What's your checklist for when everything blows up?
15
What are some non-IT/Admin books every Admin should read?
15
How can I find the path to an executable in OSX
14
How can I enforce that my urls always start with www?
14
PHP: What are the advantages of FastCGI over mod_php?
13
Why does Red Hat Linux report less free memory on the system than is actually available?
11
What configuration options for MySQL provide the biggest speed improvements?
11
How to perform a secure rsync between servers across an unsecured network
10
Apache2 Startup warning: NameVirtualHost *:80 has no VirtualHosts
10
What happens if I delete lost+found
10
Are there any good and lightweight LDAP querying tools?
10
How can I prevent cron from filling up my syslog ?
9
Viewing logs on a remote linux server
9
Using wget to recursively download whole FTP directories
9
RAID configuration for large NAS
9
How can I send visitors to the closest server using DNS ?
8
Why is my computer sending emails
8
Is using 2 solid state drives in RAID 0 going to be reliable?
8
How do I redirect a domain
8
Determining why file transfers are so slow.
7
How can I automaticaly change the DNS A record to point my site to a secondary server in case of a failure?
7
Which is best for Django? Lighttpd or Nginx? Or maybe something else?
7
Why are files being removed from /tmp?
7
How common are dropped packets in communications within a data center?
6
Why does redhat seem to be so popular in the enterprise world?
6
What is the best way to keep data synchronized between two locations?
6
How can I configure apache so that it prevents proxy servers to cache a specific URL on my website ?
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