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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 sometimes write for LWN.

For those kind enough to care, I take the masculine pronoun by preference. That's it.

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113 Perform rsync while following sym links Mar 10 '11
102 How do I edit the crontab of another user on my linux server? Sep 29 '10
99 Choosing between meaningful and meaningless hostnames Feb 18 '13
89 Why would I need a firewall if my server is well configured? Feb 8 '11
73 What are SPF records, and how do I configure them? Mar 14 '12
63 What is the correct way to open a range of ports in iptables May 13 '14
60 Loopback to forwarded Public IP address from local network - Hairpin NAT Nov 27 '13
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