Fight the Good Fight with SmokePing

Author Archives: Shawn Powers

Fight the Good Fight with SmokePing

My Internet connection is unstable. I do realize ISPs generally claim
some downtime is expected, and service is not guaranteed, and countless
other excuses are common for intermittent service. I currently pay
$120/month for business-class service, however, and I expect to get
reliable Internet access on a regular basis. more>>

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November 2013 Issue of Linux Journal: System Administration

Here at Linux Journal, we love system administrators.
Partially, that’s
because many of us are system administrators, but more than that, we all
realize just how important sys more>>

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September 2013 Issue of Linux Journal: HOW-TOs

How’d Ya Do That?

I tend to read science fiction or fantasy for entertainment and/or escape from reality. more>>

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Dynamic DNS—an Object Lesson in Problem Solving

The other day in the Linux Journal IRC room (#linuxjournal on Freenode),
I was whining to the channel about no-ip.com deleting my account
without warning. My home IP address hadn’t changed in a couple months,
and because there was no update, it appeared abandoned. more>>

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February 2013 Issue of Linux Journal: System Administration

Digital Duct Tape

I’ve had enough system administration jobs to know that companies tend to take drastically different approaches to how they handle technology. more>>

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Rsync, It’s GRRRRaphical!

Every year for our Readers’ Choice survey, the venerable tool rsync
gets votes for favorite backup tool. That never surprises us, because
every time I need to copy a group of files and folders, rsync is the
tool I use by default. more>>

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