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David Mair explains how to implement traffic management on a Linux router.

How do you make sure that a process has stopped after you've asked it nicely? This is a recipe to give a process a certain amount of time to terminate before it is terminated forcefully.

What do you do when you inadvertently change permissions on a bunch of files/directories in your filesystem without meaning to? How do you recover? What software do I need to buy to repair all the applications in my system?? It's time for the first article in the "Linux Just Does That" series.

Sharing information has always been something I felt was important. Knowing the source of data one receives is also important. Setting up Thunderbird to provide the ability to sign data in a non-repudiated way is easier than it sounds like it should be. Doing so lets those who receive what you post/send/publish know it came from you and not another posing as you.

David Mair shares a variety of examples, tricks, and techniques for using the loopback block driver on Linux.

This solution allows VMware administrators to more easily manage VMware virtual machines from the Linux console, and to more easily script both host and guest commands for automated processes, such as data backups.