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How to Find Chasis Serial Number using sneep in Sun Solaris

sneep (Serial Number in EEPROM) is a cool utility for Solaris that can retreive the Chasis Serial Number (CSN) or the Product Serial Number (PSN). This comes real handy when taking inventory or when having to work with Sun Support. sneep can also store useful information like system Assett Tag or Location into the EEPROM [...]

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Excel formula to convert a Unix timestamp

If you import data you might encounter time values stored as Unix timestamps. Unix time is defined as the number of seconds since midnight (GMT time) on January 1, 1970 — also known as the Unix epoch.
For example, here’s the Unix timestamp for August 4, 2008 at 10:19:08 pm (GMT):
1217888348
To create an Excel formula to [...]

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Howto Create a DNSBL to Black Lists well known sources of SPAM

Black Lists are used in the context of email to define the IP addresses or netblocks of well known sources of SPAM. DNSBL defines a method of using standard DNS zone files to store such IP addresses. Standard DNS A RR queries are used to interrogate the black list which is organised as a reverse [...]

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