Check for missing reverse DNS entries on network

A quick way to check your network for IPs missing reverse DNS entries….

nmap -PE -sP 10.0.0.0/24 | awk ‘{if ($2 ~ /^[[:digit:]]/ ) print $2}’

Support for authorized-keys.d/

Why is there no subdir inside .ssh called authorized-keys.d where I can just throw my ssh keys and easily manage them by file name instead of having to edit the authorized-keys(2) file?

I need to do some googling on this , a quick search yields this debian bug report on wishing for support for . . . → Read More: Support for authorized-keys.d/

Windows 7 64bit + iPhone sync

I somehow attract issues whenever I build a new computer or do a fresh installation on my desktop.  I currently dual boot between Windows XP 64bit and  Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) which has served me well the last 3 years.  My current setup is running atop a fakeraid mirror which at the time, was a . . . → Read More: Windows 7 64bit + iPhone sync

Reserved block space

Normally when a partition fills up, you remove some files, freeing up some space and watch your disk usage drop in

df -h

The first time recently I ran into a situation where that wasn’t the case. I had filled up my root partition and after removing some files and moving some others to . . . → Read More: Reserved block space

Online backup solution for Linux

The past couple of weeks I’ve begun looking into an online backup solution as I start to realize I’d be really really really pissed if something happened to my data.  Currently I’m running my desktop in a RAID 1 configuration using dmraid aka fakeraid, under Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04.  The reason I ended up having . . . → Read More: Online backup solution for Linux