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MadHatter

What's to say? My real name's Tom Yates; check my personal website for a touch more detail, if you want to. I've been a professional UNIX/network sysadmin since 1991, and currently sysadmin free software for a living through my own little company. I write regularly for LWN. That's it.

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160 Does drilling a hole into a hard drive suffice to make its data unrecoverable? Aug 16 '17
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85 Why would I need a firewall if my server is well configured? Feb 8 '11
85 What is “-bash: !”: event not found" Dec 2 '10
83 Perform rsync while following sym links Mar 10 '11
72 How do I edit the crontab of another user on my linux server? Sep 29 '10
61 What are SPF records, and how do I configure them? Mar 14 '12
55 Is greylisting still an efficient method for preventing spam? Oct 9 '12
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