Nobody can hope to get anything decent for €5 on ebay so I knew I was buying some piece of junk. But who cares about €5? Though this specific piece of “Made in PRC” junk is even worse than junk. Three problems were discovered before I gave up an stuffed it into a remote box of … Read More →
A friend of mine was using this NAS for some time. For three+ years to be more precise. And he was considerably happy given the price he paid for it. A week ago he called me telling the thing is dead and he has run out of ideas. He is a smart guy but he … Read More →
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 →
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 →
The amazon ec2 is no good for sending email. It will most probably end in spam or will be refused by MX’es. There are two quick paths to avoid this problem. The first is offered as a solution by Amazon and it is sending email through Amazon SES. The second is to setup a relay … 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
As soon as you have set up the Microsoft Certification Authority it starts issuing certificates with 1 year validity which is pretty good in most cases. But sometimes it doesn’t fit the need. One case is being lazy to renew it, another is giving a temporary access. Well, the good news is that it is doable, the … Read More →
Not really about solving the performance problems but rather about finding them first. The “There are items missing data for more than 10 minutes” is one of the default triggers in recent zabbix installation and it indicates a problem with your queue (zabbix has no queue btw, just like there is no spoon :). So … Read More →