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Darn it!
Imagine what happens when a Windows box, which is configured for remote administrative terminal mode only, is left with two zombie terminal sessions.
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For my company’s hard disk-based backup system I needed the ability to automount disk drives by their device name into a standard directory structure.

One possible approach would be to add some lines like these to fstab:

/dev/sda1       /mnt/sda1       ext3    defaults,noauto 0       0

This may be good enough in some cases, though it wasn’t sufficient for me, when there were dozens of device nodes which could get mounted eventually.

So I basically wanted something that would allow me to just access a directory, while the underlying disk was mounted automatically, then having it unmounted automatically if not in use, but still being dynamic in it’s nature so it would auto-adjust.
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Today I faced an issue, where HTTP redirections didn’t work out as expected on Apple’s Safari browser.

This came up while I was coding up some sort of web-based login redirector, which is stacked up in three layers:

1. html login form
2. login preprocessor (server side scripting)
3. login processor (server side scripting)

This solution was required to implement a generic way to create branded login forms, which will send their login requests to a unique, centralized login preprocessor, which will – after doing some internal magic – redirect to the final login processor.
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