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Posts tagged alias
Interface Aliases: a great concept
Nov 24th
Recently i came across a scenario where we have a huge LAN of windows machines and we wanted to have some of them become unable to locate/browser/view other machine on network. There were a lot of solutions possible but i went with the interface aliases, created a new eth0:0, assigned static IP, assigned windows IP, used the IP of alias interface as proxy to browsers (as squid does run on the reserved, which in my case is a given most of the time.) and voila, everything works as required.
Linux alternate of open command in Mac/Windows
Nov 13th
i have been to mac world once when i was into iphone development (which was fun) and there i came across the “open” command which can be executed on terminal and mac opens the file in the right application for you, great, isn’t it? I came back to linux world and was missing that but never had much time to check around. The other day i found some time so here are my findings (from google, stackoverflow and etc), my conclusions: (more…)
