I had this issue where I could not install anything new in my Ubuntu server. After some searching I come to lean that the packages cache seemed to be corrupted # symptom is something such as this root@media:~# apt-get update root@media:~# apt-get install htop Reading package lists… Done Segmentation faulty tree… 50% # and this […]
Month: December 2011
All user’s desktop: C:UsersPublicDesktop All user’s start menu: C:ProgramDataMicrosoftWindowsStart Menu
The application is called PsShutdown, and is downloadable for free: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ PsShutdown is quite similar to “regular” shutdown – the former accepts the same parameters as the latter, but has various additional features, such as logging off users, locking the work station, and foremost: shutdown of the system when nobody’s logged in, or when the console is locked. Usage […]
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Monitor disk i/o in linux
Wondering how much disk i/o is taking place on my linux server (Ubuntu). I decided it was time to install some tools to help me out. Here is what i am using: iostat iostat makes a snapshot of each available physical volume, and shows the current reads and writes of the volumes. dstat dstat is […]
Got Space? I don’t Seeing how it’s not possible to convert a VMWare Guest VM’s from ‘thick’ to ‘thin’. I will provide some simple info on how to clone the disk into a ‘thin’ disk. Once completed the original ‘thick’ disk can be deleted # remote into your ESX Server # service console can be […]
This is a little short on how to install the ESX VMWare Tools on Ubuntu Server If you are not running as the ‘root’ user you will need to change into super user Lets start — # if not running as ‘root’ change into super user sudo su # update your sources apt-get update […]