| 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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| 2008/12/10-16 [Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:52220 Activity:moderate | 12/9 Another idea for the CSUA that lets you spend money and maybe get some
cool toys. Instead of buying a beefy server (like say, a massive server
with 20 386DX processors), buy a few cheap machines (like the ones
mentioned below) that have good disks and work on failover / load
balancing. A netscaler or other piece of hardware is complete overkill,
but maybe hacking an OpenBSD box could do the trick. The idea is that
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| 2007/7/17 [Computer/SW/Languages/C_Cplusplus] UID:47312 Activity:nil | 7/13 CSUA Life Roster
1 point each for: key:
significant other (out of county rule applies) G
car (Chevy Novas do count) C
housing (dorms DO NOT count) H
own computer running reasonable multi-tasking OS U
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| 2007/7/13-16 [Computer/Networking] UID:47279 Activity:nil | 7/13 I'm thinking about getting a Soekris 4501 to replace my the P2-400
that is currently acting as my home firewall. Has anyone used a
Soekris system for this purpose? If so, how well does it work? Also,
if there are any alternatives (similar power/form factor), I would
appreciate links to those as well. tia.
\_ John got me to use a WRAP box similar to Soekris. I use this one:
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| 2006/8/16-18 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:44024 Activity:nil | 8/16 Greatest piece of software ever written is 4.3 BSD:
http://tinyurl.com/go7lv (informationweek.com)
\_ Windows is run by more computers than all other OS combined.
\_ that only makes it common, not great.
\_ If it wasn't great people wouldn't use it. They'd use 4.3
BSD.
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| 2006/3/25-26 [Computer/SW/OS/FreeBSD] UID:42421 Activity:very high | 3/24 Wow! FreeBSD sure is stable! After seeing soda's amazing uptime
record, I sure want to go replace my Linux boxes with FreeBSD!
Please do not delete this, or burn down Linus' house because I have
blasphemed the holy FreeBSD. I'd love to see a genuine discussion with
examples from both sides comparing the stability of *modern* FreeBSD
and Linux machines running on x86 hardware. -dans
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