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MadHatter
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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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Does drilling a hole into a hard drive suffice to make its data unrecoverable?
Aug 16, 2017
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What is a challenge password?
May 4, 2011
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What is "-bash: !": event not found"
Dec 2, 2010
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Perform rsync while following sym links
Mar 10, 2011
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How do I edit the crontab of another user on my linux server?
Sep 29, 2010
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Choosing between meaningful and meaningless hostnames
Feb 18, 2013
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Why would I need a firewall if my server is well configured?
Feb 8, 2011
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What are SPF records, and how do I configure them?
Mar 14, 2012
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What is the correct way to open a range of ports in iptables
May 13, 2014
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Loopback to forwarded Public IP address from local network - Hairpin NAT
Nov 27, 2013
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Possible project/product spamming
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What information should I include or obfuscate in my posts?
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