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Installing ManageEngine on Linux 64bit

April 25, 2014 1 min read

I came across this same error the last time I tried out Manage Engine's software when installing on a 64bit Debian installation.  So here it is for me…

Performance Tuning OwnCloud 6.02

April 21, 2014 1 min read

I am using OwnCloud for some personal file storage and synchronizing of Contacts on my Linux server. The web interface is horribly slow with a default install. Here…

PHP Easter Eggs

April 17, 2014 1 min read

To honor Easter, I've decided to put this little tidbit of information up. These are PHP "easter eggs".  I had no idea these existed until I was running…

List Grub2 Kernels and Change Default Boot

July 11, 2013 2 min read

Here’s an easy one-liner to get the list of kernels Grub2 has in /boot/grub/grub.cfg. First, let’s find out what the default kernel is… root@vz:~# grep ^GRUB_DEFAULT /etc/default/grub GRUB_DEFAULT=0…

Notes on GNU Screen Windows

April 3, 2013 1 min read

Some notes on GNU screen windowing... ^-a C - new window ^-a | - split window vertically ^-a S - split window horizontally ^-a TAB - switch to…

Linux Tape Drive Notes

January 29, 2013 1 min read

TAPEDRIVE NOTES (LINUX 2.4) -Rich (01/08/2004) Rewind tape drive: # mt -f /dev/st0 rewind Backup directory /www and /home with tar command (z - compressed): # tar -czf…

View Multiple esxtop Outputs Side-by-Side

December 14, 2012 2 min read

The Problem I often use esxtop to review realtime performance metrics of various aspects of my virtual infrastructure.  One annoying thing is that I cannot view multiple ESX…

Linux Permissions Primer

November 1, 2012 3 min read

You may ask yourself when on your own Linux system or come across a blog what linux rw rw r means?  The following primer can help you answer…

Few notes on vim diff

October 16, 2012 1 min read

Start up diff: vimdiff or vim -d (requires full install not vim-tiny) If you load up two files in splits (:vs or :sp), you can do :diffthis on…