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 →
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.
Available here alien-8.88-1.noarch.rpm alien-8.88-1.src.rpm steam-1.0.0.18-1.1.src.rpm steam-1.0.0.18-1.1.x86_64.rpm tora-2.1.3-1.fc18.src.rpm tora-2.1.3-1.fc18.x86_64.rpm yajl-2.0.4-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm yajl-devel-2.0.4-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm
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 →
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 →