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Is it just me or do you hate it when you call the phone company, cable provider, or a big wig service shop and get a dumb computer answering the phone? With older systems, entering a simple “0” would of immediately transfered you to a human. Not so with most modern automated answering systems. Instead, […]
Does your job or your natural curiosity require you to see a sites’ SSL certificate or other web server TLS info? Here a couple nifty ways to view the secure cert for a webserver and POP3 server from the Linux command line. Again, I am assuming that you are familiar with Linux and have the […]
If you are a Linux/Unix Systems Administrator you have had to create a shell script to do some mundane and repetitive task at one point in your career, for one reason or another. In my personal experience, I have had to create several such shell scripts to accomplish a wide variety of tasks. One thing […]
This post was sorta inspired from a couple recent questions I was asked by my good buddy Stevie-D. Well, I guess I should say the his questions made me get off my “fourth point of contact” and finally create the post that I have been meaning to do all along. A post about all the […]
Here is a tip on how to remove pesky control characters from a plain text file? Control characters, aka “carriage returns” can mess things up if you are trying to install a script on your Linux server. There is more than one way to skin a cat but here are some ways that I personally […]
Once in a while everyone needs to use some type of reference material be it a dictionary, a book, Internet or a friend, when writing whatever it is you write. Of course, your mileage will vary but for me, I frequently use the Internet when writing this blog. For instance, I found myself going to […]