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mtr is an small utility which combines both the functionality of traceroute and ping, for Linux and BSD. There are always occasions where you’ve wanted to traceroute to a host, possibly due to connectivity issues, and you need to diagnose where the problem lies. Most operating systems offer basic traceroute and ping utilities, but what …
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If like me you maintain servers and use Secure Shell (SSH) as the primary method of connecting to them, you’ll know the importance of being able to connect to those servers, no matter where you are, to either make changes, monitor them, or fix any problems. If you have an iPhone, you can connect to …
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It’s important to know where mail goes for a domain, especially if you’re a system administrator looking after mail servers. There are a whole host of web sites you can use to find MX records now – MX Records are the DNS entry so servers know where to send e-mail, destined to that domain. The …
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You’ve probably read the thousands of articles around the web about Google Chrome OS – OpenSource, Web2.0, and Linux. You probably don’t care about these three words – you may not even know what it means, so I’m going try and sum up what Google Chrome OS is about in non-tech terms and what it …
There’s an ever increasing drive towards the use of web applications, as opposed to running various services locally and in-house. But what does that mean for the corporate world? Not that long ago, for corporate e-mail as an example, the only feasible option was to host your own local mail services, on single or multiple …
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I saw over at Problogger a post featuring the “Best and Worst” experiences for the week, and it gave me an idea for a new weekly post here at droptips.com, featuring the best and worst “tech things” from the week. So, starting now, week 28 in 2009, this will be a weekly feature here at …
The announcement of Google Chrome OS is certainly causing a stir around the internet. Questions questions questions – everyone has them, and very few have answers up to now. Initially, Google Chrome OS is going to be aimed at netbooks – you know, those small, ultra portable, cheap machines which aren’t quite powerful enough to …
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There may be occasions where you want to take a full sized image of any web page – for historical reasons or just because you want to keep a snapshot of that page. You may have, up to now, taken a screenshot of the browser window, but most web pages are larger than the window, …
There’s a lot of information and news floating around the internet about Google Chrome OS. This post aims to do a quick roundup of the main information, so you don’t end up viewing the some 1500 news stories (at present) about it! I’ve taken information from the original Google blog post (which, of course, we …
By default, Vim uses tabs instead of spaces when you press the tab button. There is an ongoing argument around the internet (which we won’t go into now, but may in the future!) on what you should use, but, either way, you may want/need to change your tabs to spaces. These are often called “soft …
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