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| bio | website | stoneyforest.net |
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| location | Grand Rapids, MI | |
| age | 31 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 3 months |
| seen | Jun 6 at 19:40 | |
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I'm just a simple IT guy, who does a bit of programming on the side.
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Mar 18 |
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Span a directory on an SD card and an attached USB stick You're either wanting to simply mount that stick to the folder, or use unionfs. |
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Feb 8 |
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Host CPU does not scale frequency when KVM guest needs it run cpufreq-info on the host OS, it will probably complain that there's no driver available. |
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Dec 18 |
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is there a way to reset a linux machine should the primary disk fail? 1. Why not use RAID to avoid the failure problem? 2. Why not have the system load a RAM disk from the USB Boot device, so that it doesn't need the USB Stick once it's running? 3. Why would the USB drive not be plugged directly into the motherboard or something incredibly secure so that it never comes out with extreme intention? |
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Oct 26 |
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Keep Linux server awake using WOL packets Couple quick thoughts: 1. Modern hardware "wears" the most from heat cycles caused by turning things on/off. Turning your server on/off constantly will cut it's average life by half or more. 2. Electricity is cheap in most places, you should figure out the actual amount you'd be saving by doing this (I'll bet it's <$3/month, unless you have a horribly inefficient server, in which case you might want to consider using more power-efficient hardware). 3. It's wouldn't be too hard to program a watchdog service that accepts UDP packets to reset it's counter and sleeps the computer when tripped. |
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Oct 24 |
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Unable to access internet if wireless enabled Your default route is definitely over the wired connection... Are you sure you can't get to the Internet? You are trying more than just a web browser, correct? Are there proxy settings in the browser's configuration? Operating system? Steps you've already taken to resolve the issue? |
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Aug 16 |
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FreeBSD: Remove symlinks in devfs Right, you're understanding correctly (though ada0 isn't necessarily port0 on the MB as the MB could have a weird layout, I've seen it enough to know better). Using either device name shouldn't make any difference as ZFS looks for a "marker" on the drives and does not rely on the OS presenting the same device name. |
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Aug 16 |
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Best compression of similar files? tar + lzma seems to work really well for binary blobs. LZMA is built into newer versions of tar too. |
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Aug 8 |
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Mixing 4k/512 drives with ZFS (FreeNAS) Server Fault is for Professional System Administrators (et al) only. Please refer to each Stack Exchange site's FAQ for details of what is on-topic for that site. Thank you! |
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Aug 7 |
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How to skip DNS checkup while I'm disconnected from Internet It doesn't login at all, or it take an excessive amount of time? |
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Jul 31 |
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Is rpm the only file extension for repositories.rpm is specific to the package manager software, which Red Hat uses, CentOS and other have inherited. Others are free to use it as well, but many other Linux distros use other package managers. |
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Apr 6 |
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installed teamspeak 3 on freebsd using portinstall but can't connect Firewall running?? |
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Feb 27 |
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How to register Nginx as a service, after installing Passenger? @HappyDeveloper It's too early on Monday morning to get so worked up. Server Fault has always been a site exclusively for System Administrators only, my apologies if you were misled. We have been frustrated by the site fragmentation as well, and have just as little control over it. I'll move this to Unix & Linux for you since I think there's enough details to get an answer. I believe the answer will be that you have to install nginx using your Distro's sanctioned installer ( apt-get IIRC) if you want the Distro's daemon scripts to work correctly. |
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Feb 8 |
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Trouble booting server from GRUB prompt I suggest writing a real question... not "any suggestions?" |
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Jan 22 |
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Is CTRL+C incorrect to use to return to command line? @Patrick Ctrl+D actually sends an End of File indicator to the stream. It's up to the program to respond appropriately (usually closing the file stream). |
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Nov 29 |
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Why is (free_space + used_space) != total_size in df? @DavidSchwartz It's still about 1,532,681 KB that's missing (~1.46 GB). That's not a trivial amount of space even if it only accounts for 0.08% of the total. |
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Nov 27 |
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Is there a difference between Linux and Unix? @ChrisDown SCO owns the code formerly developed at Bell Labs (AT&T) and formerly called Unix. Novel currently owns the Unix trademark. Some of the code in SCO's System V, Unixware, and Openserver products are BSD code (derived from BSD 4.3). AT&T certainly believed at one point in time that BSD 4.3 was a variation of Unix; a point settled out of court. Based on that assumption the current BSD flavors can claim Unix heritage the other unix-compatible OSes can not. In any case the point is moot, as you state in your answer people imply the collection of standards implemented in Unix, not the OS. |
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Aug 3 |
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Is there a Linux distro compiled with clang/llvm? I don't know of any that are. I think most Linux distros use GCC, supporting software with common licenses and one built specifically to handle GNU code. Clang is currently being embraced by the BSD community for similar reasons. (The proceeding is a huge simplification of political and technical problems) |
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Apr 24 |
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Where did the “wheel” group get its name? Big Wheel, Big Cheese, Big Shot (etc) were all slang for an important person in the early and mid 20th century. Some of them are still popular today, others aren't. Big Wheel was an allusion to the wheels on carriages of previous centuries, where more important people would have carriages with larger wheels. |
