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ApplicationsThe National Society of Black Engineers Carnegie Mellon University Chapter/Data Processing Associates Pittsburgh ChapterSubmitted by ksmit5a on Tue, 2008-09-30 08:20.Applications
National Websites: Pre-College NSBE Alumni NSBE International NSBE National Convention Regional Sites: R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 ID: 70634 Mr. Kenneth Smith Logout View Resume National Society of Black Engineers Created: Sunday, August 31, 2008 at 5:30 PM EST Edit this Resume ksmit5a's blog | add new comment | 424 reads
The Display of Percent CPU in topSubmitted by wnl on Tue, 2007-07-31 11:48.Applications
The single most important piece of information processed by top is the
measure of a process's percentage cpu utilization, known as percent
cpu. Although top is perfectly capable of display and sorting on a
variety of information, by default it sorts by percent cpu. The
reason for this is that most people use top to find out what the cpu
is doing, or more specifically which process is hogging the cpu.
Percent cpu readily reveals this information.
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Blogging about TopSubmitted by wnl on Tue, 2007-07-03 12:19.Applications
When someone at a conference discovered that I was the original author for the utility "top" the reaction is always the same: "hey that's a really cool program", "thanks for writing it", or "top really saved the day". I am glad that in my own little way I was able to contribute to the system administrator's toolbox. But for years I have been unable to do much additional work with top, and it has become rather out of date. I was able to keep up with some of the operating system changes, but I have not really been able to add useful features to it or to track the seemingly endless variations that others have implemented. wnl's blog | 3 comments | 1930 reads
Asking for Comments: Samba Server Setup Experience Under Fedora Core 6Submitted by ant on Wed, 2007-05-23 12:43.Applications | Filesystems | Linux | Networking | Windows
Solved -- The box didn't retain my permissiable SELinux environment after a yum update. With a 'sudo setsebool -P samba_enable_home_dirs=1' there was a mighty noise and it started allowing public read-only access to the share. Someone liked my work (that they help me do) so well, that recently they requested I share the file with everyone on the LAN. I set out to create a publicly readable Samba share for the file. As a user, I issued a 'sudo yum install samba' and soon after started working on the default config file in /etc/samba/smb.conf. Here's the mix I came up with (which, keep in mind, doesn't work; I could use some help!) ant's blog | add new comment | 50955 reads
WPKGSubmitted by Meier on Sat, 2007-03-03 05:11.Applications | Configuration Mgmt
WPKG is an automated software deployment, upgrade and removal program for Windows. Stable WPKG can add great value to your Samba or Active Directory setup, as it allows to perform software installation, updates, removal etc. on your workstations. It features dependencies and there is a windows service wich does all this on machine start, user logons can be delayed until wpkg has finished its work. It is also possible to execute custom scripts on your workstations, like synchronizing time, setting printers, changing permissions or adding registry entries (basically, some of the things you would do with Active Directory and Group Policy / GPO). Basically it is a set of XML files and a javascript program. There is a web-gui for package/machine management available at http://wpkg.linuxkidd.com/. add new comment | 1567 reads
DjangoSubmitted by eadmund on Mon, 2007-01-22 14:08.Applications | Database | Linux | Software Development | Unix | Windows | WWW
Excellent Python web development framework Stable I like to use this to throw together nice web frontends for the PHBs to look at stats & stuff. It's pretty simple to use, interfaces easily to a database--very useful for the sorts of sysadmin-plus stuff I tend to do. add new comment | 1262 reads
And for my next trick, Oracle 9i tablespace migrations...Submitted by bwilson on Wed, 2007-01-10 22:26.Database
Well, I didn't expect it to take this long to get to the point of making this blog entry. Busy-ness is happy-ness, or something schmarmy like that... So, I had this Oracle database with 9 independant tablespaces - each one for a different library in this case. The challenge, I am moving them all to a new install on a new server, but not all at once. And, after I migrate one, I 'upgrade' the application running on it. It's been fun. What I've found about tablespace migrations... I've got two methods of doing it really. The first one is the one I like better at this point, though it's not the one recommended by the vendor. It seems to work just as well though. Basically, their tablespaces are independent enough that they're "Transportable". I.e. I can transport one tablespace, and run the upgrade process which cleans up some Invalid objects, and at the end it's just as good. bwilson's blog | add new comment | 25609 reads
LEO - Literate Editing with OutlinesSubmitted by Stephen P Schaefer on Wed, 2007-01-10 09:48.Applications | Documentation
Build conceptual maps of multi-structured data that can then generate that data Mature LEO is an outliner, but by implementing a visually compelling directed acyclic graph (DAG) instead of a strict tree, it allows one to present multiple aspects of structure. Some "branches" of the graph can generate source code, others configuration files, others comprise documentation which includes analogs of "hard links" to portions of the code or configuration; various aspects of the subject can be pulled out and collected into coherent subsets independent of each other's structure. Example: sendmail.mc generated by one tree, other trees within the graph contain source for the various .m4 files, while a documentation tree contains text but also nodes from the various files making the specific implementation immediately available for modification along with the documentation. add new comment | 1624 reads
LLBLGen Pro - O/R Mapping Tool for .NET - Save time on any database software development projectSubmitted by davidarcher on Wed, 2006-11-15 07:41.Database | Software Development
Object-Relational Mapping Tool for .NET Mature LLBLGen Pro is a real time saver for software developers: development time can be decreased by over 50%! LLBLGen Pro generates a complete data-access tier and business façade/support tier for you (in C# or VB.NET), using an existing database schema set. In seconds. LLBLGen Pro lets software developers focus on the real deal: business logic code, instead of them having to hammer out endless lists of almost the same routines. You design your database schema's with the abstract modelling tools you always use (for example a NIAM/ORM designer like Visio, or an E/R modeller), and LLBLGen Pro takes care of the rest. All you have to do next is modify some of the names LLBLGen Pro has given entities and fields if necessary, and generate code. add new comment | 4273 reads
SSL Intro for techs; mini OpenSSL CASubmitted by syscomet on Sat, 2006-10-28 17:44.Applications | Network | Operating System
Sysadmin's Basic Guide to SSL Certificates and AuthoritiesIntended audience: system administrators who know roughly what SSL/TLS is and can use SSH and OpenPGP products (such as GnuPG) and who now want to know more and perhaps issue local certificates. You should know what public-key cryptography is, but are not expected to be able to follow any math (no equations herein) -- this is about using the stuff, not understanding the underlaying principles. You understand that "encrypt" is scrambling and "decrypt" is descrambling. syscomet's blog | add new comment | 5478 reads
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