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.
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 →
WS 400 Sender/TooManyDistributions/Processing your request could cause you to exceed the maximum number of distributions allowed. Or in other words, you have hit something not mentioned on CloudFront service description and limits request form. That is 100 distribution per account. Waiting for a reply from sales. Update: Dear Mr. Tabolsky, The 100 Distributions limit for … Read More →
I needed to save web pages screenshots. The closest option to my initial environment was Fedora Linux 16 on Amazon EC2 is python-webkit2png. To make it work on the headless server and render flashes I had to: Get the base Fedora AMI running, I’ve selected the first one I’ve found (ami-7bf4c90f) and ran it … Read More →
Born 2011-03-15. Lived as primary disk in my working notebook. Died 2012-03-02. Your live was short and fast. You will be remembered in the backups I’ve regulary done all this year. R.M.A. My Dear Friend.
– We have shut it down last night as usual and when we came back to the office in the morning I’ve turned it on but could not reach it over the network. I’ve took it to my local computer shop but they said there is nothing they can see and even spoke to Iomega … Read More →