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This small tutorial describes how you can get rid of the -- MARK -- message on Debian GNU/Linux in the message log. https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/remove-mark-from-the-message-log.html

This tutorial describes how you can keep the system time precise using a NTP server. https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/keeping-the-system-time-precise-using-ntp.html

https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/cd-or-dvd-boot-problems-with-mac.html

This tutorial describes how you can speed up DNS requests using BIND as a local cache. https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/cache-your-dns-requests.html

https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/finding-and-removing-duplicate-files-with-fdupes.html

https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/mozilla-firefox-keywords-shortcuts.html

How to encrypt and decrypt a file with GnuPG, OpenSSL or LibreSSL, or Mcrypt using the Advanced Encryption Standard and a password phrase. https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/encrypting-and-decrypting-files-using-gnupg-openssl-or-mcrypt.html

In the world of Linux (also called GNU/Linux) there currently exist over 600 distributions, approximately 300 of those are in active development, constantly being revised and improved, and while most of them look great, only a few of them are actually worth paying attention to IMHO. https://unixsheikh.com/articles/why-i-do-not-like-derived-linux-distributions.html

https://unixsheikh.com/tutorials/mount-an-openbsd-slice-from-linux.html

This document is based upon some simple notes to myself. I have actually re-writtin this document a couple of times - each time I changed my directory structure, or considered another way to implement some kind of backup solution. Backup may be as simple as a copy or archive-file of a tree of files, or may take advantage of recording small differences since a previous backup, to make efficient use of storage space. This document is about my personal preferences with regard to backup solutions, r