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Rui F Ribeiro
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Longtime net/Unix sysadmin, ISP background, Unix and network security consultant. *BSD fan. First ZX Spectrum emulator for Windows. FreeRadius / EDUROAM / DNS / DHCP / Anycast specialist. Specialized in Debian and cloud migration. Was an expat 6 years in Africa. Worked for Academia twice. Internacional corporate consultant for a couple of years. Worked for a couple of ISPs. Nowadays working for the local biggest ISP provider as Linux Cloud specialist.

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If Linux is only a kernel, then how were its first versions used (without distribution)?
Aug 7, 2018
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Why are true and false so large?
Jan 25, 2018
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Chrome: DNS requests with random DNS names: malware?
May 7, 2017
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Chrome: DNS requests with random DNS names: malware?
May 7, 2017
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Understanding what a Linux binary is doing
Jan 19, 2018
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"WannaCry" on Linux systems: How do you protect yourself?
May 25, 2017
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No sha256sum in MacOS
Feb 27, 2018
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Way to instantly fill up/use up lots of disk space?
Jun 29, 2016
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Unable to add gpg key with apt-key behind a proxy
Apr 25, 2017
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How to get the IPV4 address for an interface from /proc
May 15, 2017

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Why is Kali Linux so hard to set up? Why won't people help me?
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Unauthorised web scraping of Unix & Linux?
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What should we do about Kali Linux questions?
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Users deleting their questions after receiving answer as comment (stop answering in comments)
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Getting to know you: who are you and why do spend time on unix.se?

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How were the first ZX Spectrum games written?
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Special meals on long-haul flights
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My company committed to having me 4 months overseas without asking. How do I approach this?
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Is it polite to ask the company to mention the future raise -which we had discussed in interview -in their written offer?
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Am I experiencing a brute force attack?