Processor Performance by Rank

Posted Fri, 08/28/2009 - 15:00 by donmc

This data comes from the crowd-sourced "PassMark" benchmarking utility.
Users pass their CPU performance data back to Passmark, and they have a few tables on their website that break CPUs down by ranking. I have combined several tables here into a single dump that includes both Single and Multi CPU performance statistics/comparisons. There are over 1,500 individual CPUs compared in this table.
You can get their software at their web site here:
http://www.passmark.com

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EHR/EMR Solutions for Medical Practices

Posted Mon, 05/18/2009 - 20:34 by donmc
As a part of the 2009 Stimulus package, there is strong financial incentive for doctors to install and implement EMR systems in their practice.
According to the US Government, the benefits of IT use in the healthcare sector can bring these benefits:

Health information technology (HIT)
Health information technology in general are increasingly viewed as the most promising tool for improving the overall quality, safety and efficiency of the health delivery system (Chaudhry et al., 2006).
Broad and consistent utilization of HIT will:

  • Improve health care quality;
  • Prevent medical errors;
  • Reduce health care costs;
  • Increase administrative efficiencies;
  • Decrease paperwork; and
  • Expand access to affordable care.
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Hair Transplant

Posted Mon, 05/07/2012 - 07:36 by AchaiusAnjel

During a Hair Transplant , a physician moves hairs from an area of thick growth to bald areas. Most Hair Transplant are performed in an office setting under local anesthesia. You should only experience minimal pain. After thoroughly cleaning the scalp, the surgeon uses small needles to numb an area where there is normal hair growth on the back of the scalp. A portion of the hairy scalp is then removed with a scalpel and set aside. The scalp is sewn closed.

Drupal's magical "DRUSH" CLI

Posted Sat, 04/28/2012 - 15:45 by donmc

I have just spent a few hours getting familiar with this cool tool. Drush allows most housekeeping for Drupal sites to be done from a command line - it's a wonderful thing. Just take a look at how much I got done executing this single command:

sudo drush @veo up

And here's what it did for me:


donmc@jbt:/var/www/VEOffice$ sudo drush @veo up
Update information last refreshed: Sat, 04/28/2012 - 16:25

Update status information on all installed and enabled Drupal projects:
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Security+ Certified !

Posted Sat, 04/14/2012 - 09:44 by donmc

I finally sat the Security+ Cert exam from CompTIA last month. Passed it, but it is definitely not an easy exam - they require memorization of lots of niggly little things that really do nothing to ensure that you really know about Securty. it's more about knowing the names of certain exploits, viruses, etc.

Apache2 CMD to check VHOST Settings...

Posted Sun, 04/08/2012 - 12:24 by donmc

Well - since Apache V2 the ONLY command to use is apparently "apache2ctrl" as follows:
Note this command will parse the VHOST configs and dump them to StandardOut...

sudo /usr/sbin/apache2ctl -t -D DUMP_VHOSTS

Windows Server Login Script example

Posted Tue, 03/20/2012 - 12:09 by donmc

Found here:
\\domain.local\sysvol\domain.local\Policies\foldername\USER\Scripts\Logon

Login Script example:

Dim WSHELL, SETNETTIME
CONST DOMAINNAME = "myDomain"

Set WSHELL = Wscript.CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

SETNETTIME = "net time /DOMAIN:" & DOMAINNAME & "/set /y"
'wscript.echo("Syncing workstation time with server time!")

WSHELL.run(SETNETTIME)
wscript.echo("Time has been Set." & vbCrLf & "Other Scripts disabled.")

NTP setup for Windows Server 2003 (DC)

Posted Thu, 03/01/2012 - 12:16 by donmc

Synching to an External Time Source

Setting the Primary DC -  Windows Server 2003 to sync with an external time server:

Open the Registry Editor (regedt32.exe) make the following changes:

HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\W32Time\Parameters\Type
This registry entry determines which peers W32Time will accept synchronization from.
Change this REG_SZ value from NT5DS to NTP
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Boot troubles - Dual-booted -- Ubuntu installed after WinXP

Posted Fri, 02/10/2012 - 12:15 by donmc

Having to repair the Grub2 boot setup...

Here's how I fixed it...

  1. Booted to Ubuntu Linux 11.10 Desktop
  2. Opened a Terminal session
  3. Installed Boot-repair
  4. Ran same, and took the default one-click repair option...

For the less savvy of us, here are the two magic CLI commands to install & run it:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair && boot-repair

Boot-Repair

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Using Blockquote in Drupal to highlight text...

Posted Sat, 01/21/2012 - 15:03 by donmc

OK- I finally have one I like to highlight a quotation with.
It is a Drupal module called "Blockquotes" and it goes like this:

Posted by zeta ζ on July 14, 2008 at 7:38pm

The Blockquote module is used to create styled blockquotes in your pages.

These blocks of text are intended for one or more verses or paragraphs that are quoted verbatim (word for word). Separating this text into a block shows that the whole block is quoted, therefore no punctuation marks are needed to indicate the beginning or end of the quotation.

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