Yes, I agree you should try something simple/basic first. I just fixed my brother-in-law's problem with the same symptom. Turns out, he's been associating to the neighbor's Access Point this whole...

What you need first is to obtain a airwave analyzer application. It is not as scary as it sounds... something like AirSnort or NetStumbler for Windows will probably do (disclaimer: I run Linux and...

I would use a combination of grep and sed to do this... use grep for the pattern matching, and use sed to do the inline text editing. Do you have to do this with just shell script? Personally, I...

Here's a quick one to get you started:

#!/bin/bash
rsync -aze ssh username@server:/path/on/remote/box /local/path 2> /home/err.log
if [ -s /home/err.log ] ; then
# file is not empty, some...

Maybe this will fit your needs better:

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller

Personally I have not done it with Debian-based distro yet, but I've had experience using RPM-based distros, and I...

Here's a quick script that will read the input from STDIN (<>) and chop everything by spaces, and construct a 2D matrix (2 dimensional array) out of it. Say, your input is something that looks like...

If your needs are more complicated, you can use fancier tools like perl or python, or if your needs are fairly simple, sed will probably fit your needs just fine.

Take your example, you have a...

First of all, you need to find the oldest file in the folder, you can do it with some switches in 'ls':

ls -t
This will list the files and sort by time, the newest first, then the oldest. Not...

Thanks for the links Artemis.

I did not know that there were XML firewalls out there myself, although I dealt with SOAP quite a bit in my last project. I guess just not too many people have the...

I have implemented some SOAP/XML solutions at my last job, and we used a combination of layer 3+4 ilter (iptables), SSL, and authentication (login).

I am not sure what you mean by SOAP firewall...