Technology

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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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.

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.")

Great Visio Resource

Posted Fri, 06/24/2011 - 09:53 by donmc

Greg Ferro has great ideas for representation of complex VLAN & routing layouts in Visio:
http://etherealmind.com/category/network-diagrams/

CentOS 5.6 HTTP Install

Posted Sat, 04/23/2011 - 13:39 by donmc

Website Name: mirror.centos.org
CentOS Directory: centos/5.6/os/i386

Sprint EVO 4G data reset procedure

Posted Wed, 04/06/2011 - 08:26 by donmc

In order to get your data working again after an outage of 3G or 4G you need to do the following in sequence:

  1. Phone this number: ##3283#
  2. Hit "EDIT" - it will prompt for a password
  3. Hit 287804
  4. Hit "OK"
  5. Select "DATA PROFILE"
  6. Go to Menu --> Restore
  7. Hit "OK" [Twice]

It will reboot, and do stuff...
Then, once it has fully rebooted, go to: Menu/Settings/System Updates/Update Profile
Once that is done, your data connection via 3G or 4G should be repaired.

Dell 5224 Password Reset

Posted Thu, 09/23/2010 - 16:19 by donmc

The documentation doesn't appear to give this up very easily: to reset to Factury Defaults, you'll need to restart the switch while having a serial console open, and hit CTRL-F (lots of times) until the boot completes, and it drops down to a boot-rom style prompt. Read more »

Fixing the Twitter module in Drupal

Posted Sun, 09/19/2010 - 19:56 by donmc
The Twitter module for Drupal now needs to use the new OAuth module for authentication in Twitter.  This has broken many web sites.  I use this feature on this site to automatically post a tweet whenever I add a new blog entry.  I use a global account in Drupal to do it, rather than individual Twitter accounts for each drupal user.
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