2013/2/19-3/26 [Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:54611 Activity:nil | 2/19 I program a lot by sshing to a Linux cluster. So I'm used to using
Xemacs to code. This works fine from a Linux or Windows workstation,
but sometimes I have to use a Mac. On Mac, the meta is usually
bound to option, but that often doesn't work over ssh for some reason.
This makes using emacs a real pain. Any suggestions on how to fix it?
(Other than "use vi")
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2012/8/28-11/7 [Computer/HW/Memory] UID:54466 Activity:nil | 8/26 Amazon medium instances (3.75GB RAM): 0.160/hour = $1382/year
Generic standard Linux VPS (4GB RAM): $480/year
Amazon costs more (but does offer superior scaling options).
\_ Amazon is $670 if you buy a year's usage up front (heavy util).
Why is heavy util less expensive than light util?
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2012/1/4-2/6 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:54281 Activity:nil | 1/4 I want to test how my servers behave during a disk failure and
a RAID reconstruction so I want to simulate a hardware failure.
How can I do this in Linux without having to physically pull
a drive? These disks are behind a RAID card and run Linux. -ausman
\_ According to the Linux RAID wiki, you might be able to use mdadm
to do this with something like the following:
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2010/7/21-8/9 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:53890 Activity:nil | 7/21 Can I just use ifconfig to expand my netmask on a FreeBSD box?
Are there any gotchas here? Linux forces me to restart my network
to expand my netmask.
\_ yes... and no, you don't have to restart your network on linux either
\_ Rebooting is the Ubootntoo way!
\_ Oooboot'n'tootin!
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2010/7/22-8/9 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:53893 Activity:nil | 7/22 Playing with dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/<disk> on linux and bsd:
2 questions, on linux when <disk>==hda it always gives me this off
by one report i.e. Records out == records in-1 and says there is an
error. Has anyone else seen this? Second, when trying to repeat this
on bsd, <disk>==rwd0 now, to my surprise, using the install disk and
selecting (S)hell, when I try to dd a 40 gig disk it says "409 records
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2010/5/26-6/30 [Computer/SW/Unix/WindowManager, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:53844 Activity:nil | 5/26 anyone use lxde? supposedly it is less stupid than xfce and
less bloated than gnome. thoughts?
\_ lol, does anyone still use desktop linux? Get with the times
buy a mac. Now. DO IT. Go NOW.
\_ but we prefer herring to Kool-Aid
\_ "you have to yell, he's hard of herring"
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2010/5/6-26 [Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:53818 Activity:low | 5/5 Does anyone know how to do custom install of Ubuntu 10.04? I can't
even boot it up to give me the menu to custom install and it
keeps installing a bunch of crap I don't need. It's getting
just as slow and bloated as Winblows install. Dear lord,
I miss the old Ubuntu.
5/5=1.0 Numerology FTW. 5+5=10
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2010/4/22-5/10 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc] UID:53797 Activity:nil | 4/22 In Linux is there an easy way to rename the scripts in /etc/rc?.d ?
For example I want to set all the /etc/rc?.d/S91apache to S100apache
so that it'll run the ramdisk BEFORE going to apache.
\_ Sure, just move them.
\_ I mean is there a script that will rename all of them
for me? Like: setrc apache2 0 0 1 1 1 1
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2010/1/22-30 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/SW/OS/OsX] UID:53655 Activity:high | 1/22 looking to buy a new development laptop
needs ssdrive, >6 hr possible batt life, and runs linux reasonably
Anyone have a recommendation? Thx.
\_ thinkpad t23 w ssdrive and battery inplace of drive bay
\_ Ever wondered what RICHARD STALLMAN uses for a laptop? Well,
wonder no more!
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2010/1/12-29 [Computer/SW/Apps/Media] UID:53627 Activity:kinda low | 1/12 How do I get a job NOT related to internet DNS social network cloud
twitter GOOG EC2 amazon API ???
\_ A CS job not related to API?
\_ Chip design, or maybe software that does chip design. What is
your major? How about game developer?
\_ DNS? DNS? What era ado you live in? I agree that social network
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2009/12/7-2010/1/3 [Computer/HW/Memory, Computer/HW] UID:53574 Activity:nil | 12/7 How many TCP retransmits are too many? Here is what I get:
3594143433 segments received
3760174421 segments send out
3801829561 segments retransmited
\_ rephrase. you can never have too much money. or too little.
what is, is.
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2009/5/7-14 [Computer/SW/WWW/Server] UID:52963 Activity:nil | 5/7 I am trying to reproduce a customer bug where their apache header
has the content-encoding as the last line in the header.
My test platform is running apache2.2 on ubuntu. Is there a way
to do this ?i I have already read the apache 2.0 docs and
I dont see anything obvious ? page is txt/html
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2009/3/8-17 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:52685 Activity:kinda low | 3/8 I'm reading about an old exploit where someone used a buffer overflow
in a printer daemon to get "daemon privileges," which allowed them
to use another exploit on the mail delivery program to get root. I'm
not sure what daemon privileges are. Is there some set of priveleges
that most daemons run on that is higher than user but lower than root?
What are they? I've never heard this before.
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2008/10/14-20 [Computer/SW/Languages/Misc, Computer/SW/Languages/Web] UID:51527 Activity:nil | 10/14 2 apache 2.0.52 servers running on Linux boxes. Identical httpd.conf
files (except for ServerName). But on one, if a CGI script takes
longer than 300 seconds, it times out. The other, not. Why is that?
\_ Perhaps network equipment configuration. Or try comparing settings
in /proc/sys/net.
\_ I ran /sbin/sysctl -a | grep tcp, all settings are the same.
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2008/9/3 [Computer/SW/Unix] UID:51030 Activity:nil | 9/3 Okay, my sed and awk skills are obviously not up to par here.
I want to only see the "500's" in my apache error log, how do I
do that? I want to see the whole line, not just the 500 error code.
Never mind, grep " 500 " is close enough.
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2008/3/10-13 [Computer/SW/SpamAssassin] UID:49412 Activity:nil | 3/10 Is there a reliable way to control spam on soda?
Can someone write an "any undergrad can do it" level FAQ? Thanks.
\_ echo "/dev/null" > ~/.forward
\_ I use Thunderbird to check my soda mail.
\_ Forward to gmail. Let google's spam filter work for you.
\_ I use spamassassin. I just checked and it caught all but one of
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2007/12/11-14 [Computer/SW/OS/Linux, Computer/SW/WWW/Server] UID:48785 Activity:nil | 12/11 Apache/Linux question: I've got apache 2.0.52 on an idle redhat
box (2.6.9-55 kernel). Every so often one to four apache procs
will run the cpu at 100% for any where from 15 to 90 mins, then
drop back to normal. USR and SYS time both increase to levels
that the production boxes don't reach when serving traffic at
noon. I've checked apache and linux kernel versions, several
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