Monthly Archives: March 2007

Resources for the eBook lover

So you bought something nice, but now you have no money for eBooks… or maybe you hate DRM and don’t feel right about buying a paperback and then torrenting a digital copy. Well, there’s lots of help out there. I … Continue reading

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A new way of examining the size of the IPv6 address space

Ok, you’ve probably heard the usual examples for visualizing how big IPv6’s address space is. 7 IP addresses for every atom of every person on Earth gets the point across, but it’s not exactly very useful… so I decided to … Continue reading

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Crontab Timing Tricks

Have you ever had a cronjob that needs to run as root, but you can’t do so easily because of the following reasons? /etc/crontab is managed by your package manager vixie-cron ignores /etc/cron.d/ Root’s private “crontab -e” crontab is easily … Continue reading

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