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Not only is @scottalanmiller a robot... He's also a time traveller...

That post will happen in less than a minute from now, lol.
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@dafyre I hop in time but only a little.
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Thinking of starting a new thread about getting performance measurements and other data when reviewing current hardware (Inverted Pyramid Of Doom) ready to find and suggest a replacement (e.g. Scale Cluster)
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@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Thinking of starting a new thread about getting performance measurements and other data when reviewing current hardware (Inverted Pyramid Of Doom) ready to find and suggest a replacement (e.g. Scale Cluster)
Get that going then!
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Thinking of starting a new thread about getting performance measurements and other data when reviewing current hardware (Inverted Pyramid Of Doom) ready to find and suggest a replacement (e.g. Scale Cluster)
Get that going then!
Got a draft going
 keep changing the wording.  Might do it tomorrow after I've played with OSTickets and Office365 
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

If they have some hash, I'll gladly trade them some scorpions....
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Planning a trip to see a Neurosurgeon on Thursday to hopefully "fix" the wife.
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@hobbit666 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Planning a trip to see a Neurosurgeon on Thursday to hopefully "fix" the wife.
What's the issue?
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@Son-of-Jor-El
She's been suffering from Back pain for nearly 12+ months now had MRI scans/X-rays etc see GP's and Consultants. Now been referred to a Neurosurgeon following one of the MRI/X-ray results.Something to do with the back of the brain trying to escape the scull and go down the spine.
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Anyone have a reference for why they named the linux commands what they named them?
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@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Anyone have a reference for why they named the linux commands what they named them?
Example:
dfdisplay filesystem?Disk Free. Makes sense.The man pages generally explain it.
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@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:
Anyone have a reference for why they named the linux commands what they named them?
Example:
dfdisplay filesystem?Disk Free. Makes sense.The man pages generally explain it.
Ah, man pages. If you haven't yet, learn to love your man pages.
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- df - disk free
 - du - disk utilization
 - cat - concatenate
 - tail - view the tail end of a file
 - head - view the head of a file
 - view - view a file
 - rpm - redhat package manager
 - yum - yellowdog update manager
 - top - show the "top" processes
 - ps - process
 - glance - take a "glance" at the system
 - cp - CoPy
 - mv - MoVe
 - finger - look up people in the directory like running your finger down the white pages (based on 1970s AT&T advertisements)
 - who - WHO is on the system
 - uptime - tell me the uptime of the system
 - nice - change how nice a process is to other processes
 - find - find the file I'm looking for
 - whereis - where is that damn file?