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[hobbit666]

@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

[RojoLoco]

@scottalanmiller said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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If they have some hash, I'll gladly trade them some scorpions....

[thanksajdotcom]

@dafyre said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@thanksajdotcom said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

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[scottalanmiller]

[scottalanmiller]

Exclusively everywhere.

[hobbit666]

Planning a trip to see a Neurosurgeon on Thursday to hopefully "fix" the wife.

[Son of Jor-El]

@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?

[hobbit666]

@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.

[wirestyle22]

Anyone have a reference for why they named the linux commands what they named them?

Example: df display filesystem? Disk Free. Makes sense.

[scottalanmiller]

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

Anyone have a reference for why they named the linux commands what they named them?

Example: df display filesystem? Disk Free. Makes sense.

The man pages generally explain it.

[travisdh1]

@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: df display 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.

[scottalanmiller]

• 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?

[wirestyle22]

@scottalanmiller thanks

[scottalanmiller]

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

@scottalanmiller thanks

Nearly all of the commands are like this. Just terse abbreviations (to make typing fast, something Microsoft really didn't grok) in most cases or references to things in the 1970s.

[wirestyle22]

@scottalanmiller Yeah I like it when it makes sense

[travisdh1]

@scottalanmiller One of my favorites when first learning UNIX.

• whoami - Display current user session.

Because it can get confusing when you've already sudo and su into yet another account. Of course, by the time this becomes useful, you should've probably closed out of your session because you're just confused now.

[wirestyle22]

yum install man-pages

done

[wirestyle22]

slowly but surely ladies and gents

[scottalanmiller]

@wirestyle22 said in Random Thread - Anything Goes:

yum install man-pages

done

Should have already been there. Every normal system has it by default. How was that missing?

[scottalanmiller]

man = MANual