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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2012/8/29-11/7 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:54467 Activity:nil | 8/29 There was once a CSUA web page which runs an SSH client for logging
on to soda. Does that page still exist? Can someone remind me of the
URL please? Thx.
\_ what do you mean? instruction on how to ssh into soda?
\_ No I think he means the ssh applet, which, iirc, was an applet
that implemented an ssh v1 client. I think this page went away
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2012/3/15-6/1 [Computer/SW/Languages, Computer/SW/OS/Windows] UID:54340 Activity:nil | 3/15 Why does MS put double-quotes around the '8' in Windows Server 8, like
the following?
- Windows 8
- Windows Server "8"
\_ Because when they didn't do it, code didn't see the '\0'
and went over? Looks better than '8','\0' *shrug*
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2011/11/16-12/28 [Academia/Berkeley/CSUA, Computer/HW] UID:54230 Activity:nil | 11/16 We'll be taking all CSUA machines offline in the near future for a Soda
Hall server room reorganization (we're being moved to a neighboring
server cabinet). Downtime will hopefully be minimal. --jordan
\_ Thanks for all your work keeping the machines running! It's
been awesome having soda actually working again.
\_ Update: this is tentatively scheduled for Saturday afternoon.
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2011/9/14-10/25 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:54173 Activity:nil | 9/13 Thanks to Jordan, our disk server is no longer virtualized. Our long
nightmare of poor IO performance should hopefully be over. Prepare for
another long nightmare of poor hardware reliability!
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Just kidding! (I hope)
In any case, this means that cooler was taken out back and shot, and
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