Solaris interface stats with netstat & ndd
Solaris “ifconfig” and “ifconfig -a” miss out on interesting values like “error” & “drop” etc. netstat and ndd are its replacement in that case # see common stats – usually seen withRead More…
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Changed Windows 8.1 Font to Monospace Front, i.e. Consolas
From this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBxoR4TBdks NOTE: this is also how you would change the default font of many apps as they use the default Windows font. So I really just wanted to changeRead More…
Making Rename.pl output prettier – Beautifying rename.pl script/program – converting/fixing filenames article
NOTE: The “rename” tool im using is the perl rename tool sometimes called “prename”, “rename.pl”, or simply rename (sidenote, there is also another similar tool called “rename” tool from a package calledRead More…
DU & LS – APPARENT SIZE vs DISK USAGE Size – Sparse Files and stuff
NOTE ABOUT UNITS BELOW: I incorrectly state they are called Kilobytes, but in reality they are kibibytes. I have the short hand notation correct. A KiB is 1024 bytes. A real KilobytesRead More…
Luns vs Shares – My explanation on – What is the difference between Shares and Luns?
The age old question, whats the difference between LUN and a SHARE. And easy way to tell them apart is to see how you access them. Look at the screnshots below andRead More…
WGET download whole directory/index/fancyindexed site + download full website
This article is sectioned off weird, I apologize for that. But the information is still very good: * To find out how to download a full Normal website (or full domain ifRead More…
tohex & tobin – python program – convert files to hexadecimal/hex or binary output
If you want to convert a program to hexdecimal or binary out, here is two programs to do so. First get your pre-reqs: apt-get update apt-get install python apt-get install pip pipRead More…
How make apache file browser / indexing prettier – also called FancyIndexing – BONUS – robots stopping search engines
As you hopefully know apache2 will give you a filebrowser that looks terrible if it cant find an index page (index.html, index.php, or whatever you set it as). This is useful forRead More…
SSHFS auto connecting via your password
SSHFS takes SSH and shows you files, via a virtual/pseudo Filesystem (called fuse). so you can mount an SSH servers directory on a client Normally you would connect like so: sshfs user1@www.server.com:/home/user1/ /mntRead More…
Lower Fragmentation with Copy on write filesystems
Which filesystems are we talking about? ZFS, BTRFS Why is fragmentation bad? It causes performance issues. Specifically bandwidth and more importantly latency. For Virtualized environments, you want the lowest latency as possibleRead More…