jtimberman

United States

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Age: 36

Linux/Unix System administrator, system engineer, PC gamer, Linux user for 15+ years.

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Short, easy to understand explanation of GPG/PGP for nontechnical people?

security encryption gnupg pgp asked Jul 31 '09 at 3:28

superuser.com

19 votes

Double-speed playback for iTunes?

iphone itunes ipod podcasts playback asked Aug 21 '09 at 17:24

superuser.com

16 votes

Good PowerShell guide, getting started through more advanced usage

windows command-line automation powershell script asked Jul 18 '09 at 1:24

superuser.com

15 votes

Why do fonts sometimes look “fat” on Mac OS X?

osx fonts display asked Jan 25 '10 at 1:11

superuser.com

10 votes

Verifying Time Machine backups

osx backup time-machine verification asked Sep 27 '09 at 21:22

superuser.com

10 votes

How do you avoid network conflict with VPN internal networks?

networking security vpn openvpn asked Jun 7 '09 at 6:48

serverfault.com

9 votes

Snapshot/rollback for libvirt+KVM?

vmware-esx virtualization snapshot kvm-virtualization asked Jun 9 '09 at 19:31

serverfault.com

8 votes

Focus Follows Mouse or Sloppy Focus on Mac OS X

osx mouse gui asked Aug 21 '09 at 16:44

superuser.com

6 votes

Why does Windows Media Center make http requests for watched folders on a network drive?

windows-media-center samba http htpc webdav asked Sep 30 '09 at 15:43

superuser.com

6 votes

When answering questions, how much do you have to look up?

discussion meta asked Sep 18 '09 at 5:41

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How can I give write-access of a folder to all users in linux?

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How do I find out what version of Linux I'm running?

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How can I roll back 1 commit?

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Chef best Practices/Questions

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Why does Windows occupy more disk space, compared to Linux?

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Replacement for Windows Explorer?

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Configuration Management for Windows

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How do I find the encoding of the current buffer in vim?

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chef install and update programs from source

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How to install software packages on a Mac? (MacPorts, Fink, anything better?)

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How to control the version of Chef that Vagrant uses to provision VMs?

stackoverflow.com

Free/Cheap Task/Bug Management software

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How do I get started with Chef?

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Why is Github more popular than Gitorious?

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Is it a bad idea to use the same private ssh key on multiple computers?

superuser.com

How can I pass Root Password to a script

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Vim to replace Vi

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Is Jabber the same thing as XMPP?

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How to track LAN usage? (AKA 'top for LAN')

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What's the biggest time saver you've implemented?

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Is it better to use a laptop on battery or on AC power?

superuser.com

How do you abort/end a Chef run?

stackoverflow.com

Why is my .bashrc not read under cygwin?

serverfault.com

Which logs to track regularly

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Watching DVDs in Linux

superuser.com

How to verify my current user has admin rights or not?

superuser.com

What Windows services can I safely disable?

superuser.com

How do you administer your EC2 Linux boxes?

serverfault.com

Stop ssh login from printing motd from the client?

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design patterns or best practices for shell scripts

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