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What's to say? My real name's Tom Yates; check my personal website for a touch more detail, if you want to. I've been a professional UNIX/network sysadmin since 1991, and currently sysadmin free software for a living through my own little company. I have been known to write for LWN.

For those kind enough to care, I take the masculine pronoun by preference. That's it.

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Perform rsync while following sym links
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Sep 29, 2010
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Choosing between meaningful and meaningless hostnames
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Feb 8, 2011
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What is the correct way to open a range of ports in iptables
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Loopback to forwarded Public IP address from local network - Hairpin NAT
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