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The following articles are not so random and more likely to tell you how to do something useful than my blog posts above.

Beyond network namespaces (2017-06-06): Beyond network namespaces talks about why and how to use mount, network, and UTS namespaces together to make a very small virtual router.
ssh:// protocol handler (2016-03-27): Notes on how to create a handler for ssh:// URIs.
Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) ZFS native root install (2016-03-27): I created some notes on how to install Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) to a native ZFS root file system.
SSH Canonicalization (2016-01-09): SSH Canonicalization explains what OpenSSH host name canonicalization is and why you would want to use it over the system resolver library, with examples.
Linux network namespaces (2015-11-13): Linux network namespaces talks about how I used Linux network namespaces to test things for my Linux IP / subnet migrations article.
Linux IP / subnet migrations... (2015-11-13): Linux IP / subnet migrations talks about how to enable communictaions before, during, and after IP / subnet migrations.
Empowering OpenSSH (2015-05-06): Empowering OpenSSH is an article that discusses how and why to configure OpenSSH to fully utilize it's power. Hint: You can Empower OpenSSH to enable you to ssh (in)directly to systems on the other side of bastion hosts.
PTR delegation (2015-01-11): PTR delegation is a write up on how do PTR delegation for a few IPs.
A Precarious State of Storage (2014-09-07): This is the story of how I managed to get the storage on one of my systems in to a precarious state, and back out.
TShark Automation (2014-07-16): Here's how I automated analyzing 1500+ packets with TShark.
Manual zone transfers (2014-06-18): This is a process that you can use to manually transfer zones between two DNS servers that can't do a normal zone transfer for some reason.
Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation (2014-06-18): Classless IN-ADDR.ARPA delegation compares and contrasts different methods to delegate parts of the in-addr.arpa zone.
Apex Override (2014-06-16): Apex Override is a DNS technique I use to override what names resolve to when I have the specific need to do so.
Play nice with others. (2014-06-16): This is my general disclaimer stating that I have my white hat on and I'm playing nicely with others.
Which network interface? (2014-06-06): This article explains how I identify which network interface is supposed to have what IP address.
Changing passwords in mass (2014-04-26): This article explains about how I change passwords in mass on the accounts that I support.
SSH local port forwarding ... Anycast Style (2014-03-03): SSH local port forwarding describes a technique that combines anycast and ssh port forwarding to access remote resources as if they were local without having to change anything in a client.
Network Load Balancing to a single host (2014-02-28): This is how I configured Microsoft NLB to support the following two requirements.
Shell Customizations (2014-02-22): Shell Customizations goes in to more details about how and why to customize your shell environment to fit your needs.
tar pipe (2014-02-08): This is some quick and dirty documentation on tar pipes, what they are, how they work, and how to use them.
Virtual Host Redirects (2014-02-03): Virtual Host Redirects explains how I do redirects from non-canonical domain name(s) to the canonical domain name.
On the Fastrack (2014-02-01): This is a collection of my favorite On the Fastrack comics.
xkcd (2014-02-01): This is a collection of my favorite xkcd comics.
Prompt Customizations (2014-01-26): Prompt Customizations goings in to details about how and why I customize my shell prompt the way that I do.
Embracing sudo (2014-01-12): Embracing sudo is a short explanation of how I'm configuring my environment to take the rough edges off of sudo.
Dynamic HTTP Redirects (2014-01-10): Dynamic HTTP Redirects is my solution to the problem that I was ranting about in my HTTP redirects are your friend post.
Rotating images with HTTP redirects (2014-01-10): Rotating images with HTTP redirects is my solution to have rotating images / adds / banners with out needing to save state on the server per rotation.

Blog

My blog has some of my more recent random musings. The older musings can be found by following the link for the given month.

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Links

Various links that I find useful.

Reference

What good is a site that doesn't have reference information? So, here's mine.

.profile

See my .profile to learn more "About Me" and dotFiles.

Command Aliases

These are some more common command aliases that I set up in my environment to make unix more user friendly.

Computer Lore

Some computer stories are good enough to save for posterity.

A story about 'Magic': A story about 'Magic' demonstrates that even in the predictable world of computers, there is still a place for 'Magic'.
My Fav'rite 'Net Things: Kc Claffy's "My Fav'rite 'Net Things" was so good that I had to have a local copy of it.
The Story of Mel: The Story of Mel is about a programmer named Mel, and how he stood up for his beliefs in the dawn of the computer age.
VAXen, my children...: VAXen, my children is a funny story that is worth preserving.
What Teachers Make by Taylor Mali: I loved Taylor Mali's "What Teachers Make" poem so much that I had to have a local copy.

IPv4 Subnets (2014-03-08)

This is my take on an IPv4 subnet reference table, including decimal, hexadecimal and Cisco wild card notation.

Linux PAM documentation v1.1.8.

This is a local mirror of the Linux PAM documentation.

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Tools

Some useful tools.

PWVault: PWVault is a simple password vault written as a 135 line shell script that uses GPG to store passwords.
What is my IP?: This is a simple tool that will tell you what IP the server sees your connection from.
Sudify (2015-02-19): Sudify is a very simple shell wrapper script to make using sudo less annoying by hiding it.