Inspired by this question, what 3rd party essential software do you have on a Linux machine?
One per answer please, and if you can, please provide the download/site link.
My main Solaris server has an issue with its battery and thus I loose around 20 seconds per day.
Currently I am using rdate once in the morning to synchronise the time. Which approach should I use until I can change the battery on a weekend? Should I switch from rdate to ntp? The machine runs plenty of cronjobs and thus I need to ensure that everything is started even when the time is changed.
I've recently repurposed an old machine that I had laying around (custom built several years ago with miscellaneous parts) as a simple media center with an Ubuntu 8.10 operating system and Boxee as its front end, and I absolutely love it. I'm particularly intrigued by the custom applications that are possible, and I wanted to start a running list of recommended apps for it.
So, my question is this: what Boxee apps do you recommend, and why? One app per answer, please.
I would like to subscribe to some good sources of frequent updates on new software, updated software, and Ubuntu news in general. Unfortunately, most of the ones to come up on a Google search seem to be no longer actively maintained. What are your favorite sources?
One site per answer, please.
We have an SQL Server 2005 that is the backend of a web application.
The application is partly SharePoint and partly web services accessing the database via Entity Framework.
In the performance monitor I am seeing average SQL Logins is ca, 60 per second (max 170), but the average logouts is less than 1.
Where can I see the total number of SQL Server logins? Anyone have an idea what could be causing this?
I find NetLimiter Monitor quite handy on Windows both for the realtime per-process bandwidth monitoring and the recorded data usage.
What tool or tools can I use to replicate this functionality in Linux?
I am okay using two separate apps for the bandwidth and the usage monitoring, but the usage monitoring is a must have.
Looking for recommendations the best comprehensive browser based administration tool for administering a Linux machine. Ideally this would be distribution agnostic. This could also be an "appliance" type product that would administer multiple machines on network.
This is marked community wiki. Give your answer preferably one product per answer and vote up packages that you recommend also.
I have a sun solaris server which die off recently due to voltage issue
Checking with sun solaris support personnel the cost is like 5k or 6k per maintence year support.
I am wondering whether it is worth the price or should i instead purchase a new solaris server and redo the setup etc.
Any advise anyone?
And also is there anyaway i can remove the harddisk in the existing solaris server and put into the new server?
We are trying to use new IIS7 (32bit, Classic Mode) webs in addition to our IIS6 webs with one SQL State Server for ASP.NET Session Handling. Unfortunately the number of transactions per seconds in the State Servers spikes (10 times+) as soon as we add the new IIS7 web to the farm.
Are there any known issues with the described setup?
Hello
I'm looking for a LAMP (PHP) Extranet recommendation.
Key features:
Multiple project extranets
Authorization with user rolls
Document upload
Visual customization per project extranet
Being a Windows convert, I am looking for Task Manager equivalent for OS X.
Please do not recommend Activity Monitor, since it misses two important features of Task Manager:
per process disk i/o (read, write, other)
simple process description (like what is this 'mds' process? where does it live?)
Any suggestions?
Guidelines for answers:
ONE feature per answer.
Note a mail client that has the feature (if more than one have the feature, just pick one)
Summarize the feature, and describe why the it would be beneficial. (Include links and/or screen-shots where appropriate.)
I am trying to clone a repository on my machine that I have just created on GitHub.
I am new to Git, but have been using SVN for a while. I've set up an RSA key as per instructions but am unable to clone with either the SSH or HTTP Urls.
When I use HTTP, I get the following error:
Password: fatal: Out of memory, realloc failed
I'm using Windows 7 with MSysGit (using Bash & PuTTY).
Hello,
I have a web server with multiple users in it. one of these users uses mambo, and the cpu usage of this user is more than 90% which leads to a very slow performance of the machine,
I have installed cpulimit version 1.1. but there is no particular command that limits the cpu per user. I need to limit this user for at least 50% . please help me ASAP.
Thank you.
In PowerPoint (2007), it is possible to print multiple slides on a paper as a handout. However, there is quite a lot of whitespace in between them and around them.
Is there another way to enlarge the slides (I'm using the "6 per page" option)? And I don't mean "Adjust to paper size" (or whatever that's called in English), because the difference is just minimal.
Hi,
Could anyone possible post a virtual host sample from a working httpd server, if possible with the most features enabled (like suPHP, suExec, php directives such as engine on off and others) ?
The reason is that i wanted to see how it is formarted, and built per vhost... it's been a long time i dont use cPanel nor have it available so i can't really get it, i've been googling for it but havent found it at all.
Much appreciated.
We provide an application as a service, over Windows RemoteApp. It's nearly impossible to deploy updates to the software, though, because if even a single user is online then the file is in-use and cannot be replaced.
Is there some way to make this possible or easier? If it were possible, I'd be deploying probably 2-3 updates per day. As it is, I sometimes have to go all week without deploying one.
Consider this scenario:
I'm running Magento 1.4 Community Edition
I have a newsletter that I'm sending out 2 times per week
My list has 2000 subscribers
I'm on a shared hosting plan (linux on apache 2.2 with Cpanel)
My hosting provider limits me to 6 emails/minute
How can I send 2000 emails x 2 times/week x 4 weeks/month in the above scenario?
Is there a server configuration I can ask my hosting company to make? Any software that can temporize the email send?
I installed Keepass 1.16 in my thumbdrive, which reportedly works with wine (as per Keepass homepage), but after entering the master password it just hangs and shows the "The program keepass has encountered a serious problem and needs to close" screen.
I got this error msg among the stack trace on the terminal:
wine: Call from 0x7b844633 to unimplemented function bcrypt.dll.BCryptOpenAlgorithmProvider, aborting
On windows, everything runs fine.
I'm using wine-1.1.27 on ubuntu 9.04
Any thoughts?
Does the VSFTPD server support Clear Command Channel (CCC) per RFC 2228?
If it does support CCC, does it need to be enabled? Or, is it enabled with the whole FTPS suite of configuration parameters?
I am trying to set up the mod_status module in Apache2 per the documentation here: http://www.serverdensity.com/docs/agent/apachestatus/
My problem is that my default site is over-riding the /server-status location, what is it that I am doing wrong?
I have my domain registered with godaddy. I want to send newsletter to my customers (around 5000). But there is limit to send number of emails per day.
Can i setup SMTP server on my home PC (windows XP) for sending these mails.
Is there any "open source"/Free newsletter management application (build on ASP.NET, so that i can customize it if needed) which track bounce emails and other analytics.
Any issue which i have to take care.
What feature do you value the most in the Opera web browser
(Windows, Linux and MacIntosh) ?
Please only one feature per post - you may post several
times.
If possible please also provide a description of the feature
for those who don't know what it is.
A reference to a (YouTube) video demonstrating the feature
would be a plus.
I have Lighttpd on Centos 5 with Fcgi and Memcached. Periodically, once per week or two i get internal server error 500 and i must manually restart lighttpd to get it to work again.
In my lighttpd config I've defined error log file:
server.errorlog = "/home/lxadmin/httpd/lighttpd/error.log"
But when I open it, it has no rows for last days, only one month ago.
So my question is how to diagnose what is the issue and how to enable error log for my configuration?