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@dafyre I hop in time but only a little.
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Thinking of starting a new thread about getting performance measurements and other data when reviewing current hardware (Inverted Pyramid Of Doom) ready to find and suggest a replacement (e.g. Scale Cluster)
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@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Thinking of starting a new thread about getting performance measurements and other data when reviewing current hardware (Inverted Pyramid Of Doom) ready to find and suggest a replacement (e.g. Scale Cluster)
Get that going then!
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Thinking of starting a new thread about getting performance measurements and other data when reviewing current hardware (Inverted Pyramid Of Doom) ready to find and suggest a replacement (e.g. Scale Cluster)
Get that going then!
Got a draft going
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
If they have some hash, I'll gladly trade them some scorpions....
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Exclusively everywhere.
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Planning a trip to see a Neurosurgeon on Thursday to hopefully "fix" the wife.
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@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Planning a trip to see a Neurosurgeon on Thursday to hopefully "fix" the wife.
What's the issue?
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@Son-of-Jor-El
She's been suffering from Back pain for nearly 12+ months now had MRI scans/X-rays etc see GP's and Consultants. Now been referred to a Neurosurgeon following one of the MRI/X-ray results.Something to do with the back of the brain trying to escape the scull and go down the spine.
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Anyone have a reference for why they named the linux commands what they named them?
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@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Anyone have a reference for why they named the linux commands what they named them?
Example:
dfdisplay filesystem?Disk Free. Makes sense.The man pages generally explain it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Anyone have a reference for why they named the linux commands what they named them?
Example:
dfdisplay filesystem?Disk Free. Makes sense.The man pages generally explain it.
Ah, man pages. If you haven't yet, learn to love your man pages.
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- df - disk free
- du - disk utilization
- cat - concatenate
- tail - view the tail end of a file
- head - view the head of a file
- view - view a file
- rpm - redhat package manager
- yum - yellowdog update manager
- top - show the "top" processes
- ps - process
- glance - take a "glance" at the system
- cp - CoPy
- mv - MoVe
- finger - look up people in the directory like running your finger down the white pages (based on 1970s AT&T advertisements)
- who - WHO is on the system
- uptime - tell me the uptime of the system
- nice - change how nice a process is to other processes
- find - find the file I'm looking for
- whereis - where is that damn file?
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@scottalanmiller thanks
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@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@scottalanmiller thanks
Nearly all of the commands are like this. Just terse abbreviations (to make typing fast, something Microsoft really didn't grok) in most cases or references to things in the 1970s.
