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What are software and hardware interrupts, and how are they processed?

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How to cache or otherwise speed up `du` summaries?

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Is there a way to find which iptables rule was responsible for dropping a packet?

24 votes

/usr/bin vs /usr/local/bin on Linux

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How to check if NTPD updates machine's time successfully using shell?

22 votes

Trust a self signed PEM certificate

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How can I change the default gateway?

21 votes

Why do /usr and /tmp directories for Linux miss vowels in their spellings?

18 votes

How to get over "device or resource busy"?

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Is accepting RELATED,ESTABLISHED for all sources in iptables considered "too open"?

16 votes

Make disk/disk copy slower

13 votes

How to find power draw in watts?

13 votes

Where is Unix Time / Official Time Measured?

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Does IO prioritise by the very nature of renicing a task?

11 votes

Orphaned connections in CLOSE_WAIT state

10 votes

Lock file from being edited or deleted

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True HTTPS? How?

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avoid IPv6 link local address on interface

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Can a home directory have both .cshrc and .bashrc files?

8 votes
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Reverse DNS with BIND and IPv6

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Why does man page completion fail after su?

7 votes
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system clock is off by one hour after every reboot

7 votes

Graceful way to kill process

6 votes

`test` and `[` - different binaries, any difference?

6 votes
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Use certain version of JRE / JDK for certain programs

6 votes
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Get client hostnames from DHCP

6 votes

Can't ping broadcast

6 votes

nohup not updating nohup.out

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What is docs package and how to use it?

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Howto Configure IPv6 on a Debian based system?

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