Tips & Clues

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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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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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.")

Settings (in Vista and Windows 7) to access Samba Shares...

Posted Wed, 09/14/2011 - 20:17 by donmc

Microsoft Vista’s default security policy is to only use NTLMv2 authentication. I am not sure what the setting is by default in Windows 7 - so this may apply there too.

Note that NTLMv2 authentication is supported in Samba 3.0+

Seems like we ought to be heading towards Kerberos for all our authentication needs in the longer term.

See the forum discussion on this at:
http://www.builderau.com.au/blogs/codemonkeybusiness/viewblogpost.htm?p=...

HP Array Configuration Utility in a Redhat Linux Server

Posted Mon, 07/11/2011 - 09:20 by donmc

To review the HP Drive Array Diagnostics in a Redhat Linux Server:

Start the services:
hp-health System Health Monitor and Command line Utility Package.
hpsmhd    System Management Homepage server.

Then start the "Array Configuration Utility":

# sudo  /usr/sbin/cpqacuxe -R

Then browse to the URL on your server (in this example 10.2.2.1):
https://10.2.2.1:2381

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/

Mount an NTFS Filesystem in Linux

Posted Sat, 04/30/2011 - 23:17 by donmc

Under CentOS 5.6 OR Redhat Enterprise Linux RHEL 5.6
To mount NTFS file systems, you'll need to do this:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda1 /mnt

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.

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