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more »Command Line – Killing Processes Shutting down applications and systems
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more »Charly's Column: GeoIP Lookup The sys admin’s daily grind – GeoIP lookup
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more »Command Line: Wodim Burning with wodim
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more »Fabric Python Library Stitching together a crazy sys admin world with Python
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