User duffbeer703 - Server Fault

duffbeer703

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292 Answers

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How to determine if a bash variable is empty?

answered May 12, 2009 at 18:06

32 votes

Your worst "High Maintenance User" experience

answered Jun 15, 2009 at 23:35

27 votes

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What are the advantages/disadvantages of hard versus soft mounts in UNIX?

answered May 18, 2009 at 15:51

22 votes

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Is RAID5 more robust than RAID1

answered Jul 29, 2009 at 15:44

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Best floor of a tall building to locate your server room or data center

answered Aug 17, 2009 at 12:18

18 votes

ZFS: Mirror vs. RAID-Z

answered Sep 9, 2009 at 16:38

17 votes

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New Sys Admin job...Where do I begin?

answered Jun 19, 2010 at 11:32

15 votes

Ethical quandry over security nondisclosure

answered Sep 29, 2009 at 9:24

14 votes

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Linux: How to break a large file into smaller files?

answered Jul 20, 2009 at 23:42

13 votes

Using .local for internal websites

answered Jul 28, 2009 at 20:52

13 votes

Is being paranoid a required 'quality' for Sys/Net administrators?

answered Jun 23, 2009 at 21:31

13 votes

What is the problem with using Fedora for servers?

answered Jul 14, 2009 at 12:10

12 votes

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How to install Windows Updates from command-line

answered May 19, 2009 at 21:47

10 votes

What features would you add to Firefox to get it into the enterprise?

answered Jun 6, 2009 at 22:43

10 votes

Can I get all active directory passwords in clear text using reversible encryption?

answered May 16, 2009 at 2:29

10 votes

Should network hardware be set to "autonegotiate" speeds or fixed speeds?

answered Jan 26, 2010 at 4:16

10 votes

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Is it dangerous to change the value of /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_tw_reuse?

answered Feb 17, 2011 at 2:43

9 votes

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What kind of website needs SSL?

answered May 12, 2010 at 17:03

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What impact does full hard drive encryption have on performance?

answered May 19, 2009 at 3:40

9 votes

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Commercial Linux vs Free

answered May 31, 2009 at 20:27

9 votes

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Can I be my own trusted CA via an signed intermediate certificate?

answered Aug 27, 2009 at 16:12

8 votes

Will SRV records ever become useful?

answered Jun 24, 2009 at 18:29

8 votes

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Will wear induced by turning computers off in the evening be offset by energy savings?

answered Apr 30, 2010 at 17:14

7 votes

Should I keep my ex-employer's data?

answered May 28, 2010 at 17:11

7 votes

What's the effect of standby (spindown) mode on modern hard drives?

answered Jun 22, 2009 at 12:09

7 votes

Should a backup server use RAID?

answered Jul 14, 2009 at 17:53

6 votes

What is an acceptable on-call agreement between employee and employer?

answered Jul 5, 2009 at 23:16

6 votes

I want to share a desktop between Linux workstations

answered Jun 17, 2009 at 12:08

6 votes

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How to map Windows network drives in Mac OS X (Leopard / Tiger)?

answered May 19, 2009 at 14:30

6 votes

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Backup is not Archiving - But what requirements does archiving have?

answered Jun 10, 2009 at 3:56

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