inside the mind of a linux admin

Find the fastest DNS resolver near you

I recently stumbled upon an awesome tool called Namebench. Namebench it’s a small program wrote in python that search for the fastest DNS server near to you. Namebench runs benchmarks using your web browser history, tcpdump output, or standardized datasets in order to provide an individualized recommendation. Namebench is completely free and does not modify […]

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creating a patch file from git

I’m a huge fan of the oldschool “patch” command, and sometimes in the wild I use Gitorious’ “raw diff” view which puts the changes in easy to read patch format. However, you can also do this on the command line to create a patch file that can be applied using “patch -p0 < patchfile". git […]

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