Brain Goo

I get this a lot from friends and Google is full of examples, but here it is again.
If you have a file that begins with a hyphen (one of these: -) you’ll have a tough time removing it unless you remember something simple from Command Line 101. In most CLI environments, your shell has [...]

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If you install a NIC in a Solaris SPARC box, at least on Solaris 9, and you don’t know the device name, the following will help:
prtconf -pv | more
look for
device_type:  ‘network’
Near the network device you’ll see model and name, similar to this:
model:  ‘SUNW,pci-qfe’
name:  ‘SUNW,qfe’
In this case your device is a qfe card.  You can get [...]

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IIS 6 does not come with WebDAV enabled, but you can easily look to see if it is on.

Connect to the IIS manager.
Manager -> Machine -> Web Services Extensions
Check the window at right.  If WebDAV is not enabled, it should look like this:

If your IIS manager shows it as “Allowed”, you can disable it by [...]

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