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Month: March 2013

25 March, 2013 Blog

What is anycast? Anycast explained at a very basic level

, at a very basic level, is when a collection of servers share the same IP address and data is

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24 March, 2013 Blog

Why I don’t like database stored proceedures

There’s a number of compelling reasons not to use them. Here’s just a few: They can’t be stepped through and

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17 March, 2013 Blog

Installing pfSense on a Watchguard Firebox x550e and x750e

I’ve done this enough times to be confident that it works. There’s some great instructions written by Daniel Bernhardt which cover

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14 March, 2013 Blog

How to get a status update out of a running dd process on Linux

With dd running in a terminal, open a new terminal to the server and send the USR1 signal to the

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10 March, 2013 Blog

Cisco IOS: Disable Telnet access… or enable SSH

Telnet access is enabled by default on some IOS releases. See this article for why this is bad. If you

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1 March, 2013 Blog

Injecting jQuery into a web site

This is really useful if you need to hack around with a site that doesn’t use jQuery. In my case,

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