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# yum -y install tuned-utils tuned
Loaded plugins: product-id, rhnplugin, security, subscription-manager
This system is not registered to Red Hat Subscription Management. You can use subscription-manager to register.
This system is receiving updates from RHN Classic or RHN Satellite.
@pauska Heh. On a rleated note, I checked the amazon page for SimCity this morning. Over 300 new 1 star reviews in less than 10 hours. That's a new 1 star review every 2 minutes. Kinda of an impressive rate.
@ChrisS And what you're doing, I suppose. IF/when I go to four screens, one's going to have something static on it, like cacti graphs or the monitoring system. Actively working 3 screens is definitely my limit.
@pauska Oh, you bought it? Ouch. Condolences, man.
@ewwhite It's been a while, but I think that just means "You don't have paid support, so you don't have access to a non-free tool we ship only to paying customers." That and they maintain separate update servers for paying customers.
@ChrisS I read that story and my first thought was they were way overpaying. Hell, I'd give some serious thought to jumping on that money train for ~$0.16/post.
With an hour or tw programming a markov chain of positive comments I could probably start blasting several comments per second. At ¢16 each, that'd get my IP banned before I earned more than a few hundred. =]
@pauska the problem with a screen that size is you move your head so much. It sounds ridiculous.. but 10 hours of working on it gives me a headache and a broken neck.
I've found Dell makes a 1440x900 17" monitor too Just a little too big, but very close to being a perfect vertical side monitor for the 27" IPS display
I am pretty picky about my displays. But I am not annoyed by two different sizes (tI used both 15" 1280x1024 and 26" 1920x1200 side by side, and a 24" 1920x1200 and a 26" 1920x1200 side by side).
@MDMarra Yup. Main screen is still a run of the mill 28" inch WS LCD, on account of an older motherboard that doesn't like to display BIOS and POST on those IPS monitors. Flanked by those IPS screens, and it looks really sweet.
@MDMarra Oh, widescreen... 16:9 or whatever. I guess that's the standard for monitors these days... old habit, since I've been using 16:9 monitors since the days when 4:3 was standard.
I would be happy with reinstalling it for $60. if all I needed to do was reinstalling it without user interaction.
Just line up the PCs to fix. Reinstall, run updates (from a local source, not downloading them all over and over). Add the requested free AV product. Done
What I fear are the users who want to add a ton of little tools, need their icons back in the same place and we are afraid to click a mouse button
Oh, and please reinstall these illegal copies of software I got from the neighbour and add my wireless printer, which is on the other side of the house and .. and ..
@Hennes theres one person I dont mind helping out, one of my dads friends, because he doesnt mind helping me out when I need welding or something done, anyone else, is one thier own
I used to take pride in being able to fix stuff... Not anymore lol, now when I hear people talking about thier computer problems, I sit back, stfu, and let Mr. "I installed AVG all on my own" give his advice.
He is on Xpo and had an ancient IE. I never upgraded it because a button might have moved, or it might look slightly different. (Dad is nearing 70 yr old)
My upstairs neighbor asked if I knew how to fix laptops last night... I asked what was wrong with it. She said "Somebody used to look at porn on it." Nope. Not touchin' that one...
Oh god, I can tell it's friday: Website expires my password, so I open the safe, generate and save a new one, then look at the page... "Please enter your current password to continue"
I'm new to gentoo and am having problems with the install step that wants you to copy the kernel you configured from "make modules_install" I am using esxi vmware and I used the default values in that were presented in "make modules_install". When I try to copy the bzImage file over, the copy fai...
I'm working with a large database platform (Or#&%@) that requires a specific revision level of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In this case, it needs EL6.2 in order to retain support and compatibility with several DB features that we intend to use.
What is the cleanest, most elegant way to update ...
> Red Hat offers the Extended Update Support (EUS) Add-On to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription for those customers who wish to standardize on a specific minor release for an extended period of time. The EUS Add-On allows customers the flexibility to decide when to take advantage of new Red Hat Enterprise Linux features, including new hardware enablement.
if you have the EUS addon then you can keep getting security and serious bugfix updates for 6.2 without jumping to the latest 6.x
@ewwhite maybe I can figure it out if you post your /etc/yum*conf and /etc/yum.repos.d/*.conf files, omitting of course any internal corporate or third party repos
Is there any difference between running a program as a service, or running a program through a scheduled task to run on startup as a different account?
when you start a Windows Service, it responds to the service control API; furthermore, the service control manager can choose to start it in-process within a svchost.exe alongside other services in the same virtual address space / process image
when you start something through a scheduled task, it basically uses the RunAs interface to start it as another user, but it doesn't support or respond to the service control API
and it'll always be in its own virtual address space
@allquixotic I've got an .exe which I can double-click to run. When running it provides a web server on 8080. It's set to run on startup as an account that's been granted log on as a service privs and, when I'm logged on as the machines admin account I can see it's running as that account fine, but the web server is not accessible.
Looks like I need to start it as a service then...
@tombull89 Does the executable support running as a service? Unless you wrap it in something like srvany, you can't just run any old executable as a service
you have to export a pre-defined series of native entry points in your binary image's virtual function table
if it doesn't explicitly export those, then it can't run as a service, unless you download the Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit and use the srvany.exe binary within, which is basically a wrapper that does support the service control API, and will "manage" its child process (the non-service-aware binary) by spawning the child process when starting the service, and terminating it when stopping the service
If it doesn't work with the SrvAny type tools @tombull89 then you can use the windows job scheduler to create a scheduled task to run your .exe 'when the computer starts'. It's a bit ghetto, I don't like doing or even suggesting it, but when push comes to shove it bloody well works.
I think it's that the old logical drive had an OS on it or something funky.
@allquixotic from the RHEL site...
Resolution
You can certainly could get 6.2.z by executing below:
# echo 6.2 > /etc/yum/vars/releasever
On RHEL6.2, you can not execute following because RHEL6.2 does not provide "release" option.
# subscription-manager release --set=6.2
Heh. I've been installing old Windows Server OSes for far too long. Only 28 updates available for 2012, so I thought I must be having trouble connecting to the Microsoft update site.
@RobM That's what I'm currently doing - the program is running as the user I set it to (I can see in task manager it's running and the account it's running as) but I can't access the inbuilt web server when I'm supposed to be able to.
RHEL 7 will be the first release of RHEL to use systemd. Forget the desktop stuff; sysadmins are going to be confused and bewildered (and lots of other allergic reactions) to RHEL7 ;-)
This is a Canonical Question about Capacity Planning
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How do you do Load Testing and Capacity Planning for Web Sites?
How do you do Load Testing and Capacity Planning for Databases?
I have a question regarding capacity planning. Can the Server Fault community please...
I'm working with a large database platform (Or#&%@) that requires a specific revision level of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. In this case, it needs EL6.2 in order to retain support and compatibility with several DB features that we intend to use.
What is the cleanest, most elegant way to update ...
