When life gives you lemons that you need to run in .net on linux and that linux is a centos6 you can use these centos 6.4 rpms to sweeten the experience a little. libgdiplus-devel-2.10-6.el6.x86_64.rpm libgdiplus-2.10-6.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-winfx-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-mvc-devel-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-mvc-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-core-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-nunit-devel-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-nunit-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-devel-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-locale-extras-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-extras-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-winforms-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-wcf-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-web-devel-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-web-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-data-sqlite-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-data-postgresql-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-data-oracle-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm mono-data-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm ibm-data-db2-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm monodoc-devel-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm monodoc-2.10.8-3.el6.x86_64.rpm Read More →

ISC BIND has no logo, so here is a fixed Duck I've stolen from their internets

Been some time I had a DNS server with enough zones and queries so I have to worry about the numbers. And oh boy the time flies. Even at ISC. So, assuming you have a BIND 9.5 and above, there is this super new feature that didn’t even get yet to the man page of Read More →

powershell one-liner: powershell invoke-command -scr "{$tot=0; gwmi win32_Processor -Property NumberOfLogicalProcessors |  ForEach-Object { $tot = $tot + $_.NumberOfLogicalProcessors }; $tot}" Gives you the total number of what OS sees as processors, practically a total of all threads on all physical CPUs.

sudo wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/Fedora_17/games.repo -o /etc/yum.repos.d/steam.repo rpm -ivh http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/games/Fedora_17/src/steam-1.0.0.18-1.1.src.rpm cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS rpmbuild -bb steam.spec sudo yum localinstall ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/steam-1.0.0.18-1.1.x86_64.rpm steam Or here