Monthly Archives: March 2007

Resources for the eBook lover

Posted on 2007-03-30 by Stephan Sokolow

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

Posted on 2007-03-26 by Stephan Sokolow

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

Posted on 2007-03-04 by Stephan Sokolow

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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