Questions tagged [operating-system]
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Shortcut keys nuisance in my computer
after login to my windows 2003 server terminal and start typing some thing in the notepad for some letter like E and so on..i am getting some fuctionalities
if i type letter E explorer will pop up
how to get rid of this?
Jaison
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Operating system for optimal performance on x86 (virtualized)
What operating system would achieve the best performance on x86 from within Qemu or Virtualbox?
I only need to use a handful of programs regularly: tmux, vi(m), curl, a package manager (mainly to install libraries), gcc/clang, git, etc.
I don't…
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Does UEFI info on the hard drive's boot partition gets written to the system's BIOS?
I was transferring a set of existing raid drives into a second-hand server, an HP Gen9 server. I observed 2 interesting details:
When I was configuring UEFI boot Order shown in the picture below,
I saw many instances of Windows Boot Manager. NOTE,…
eliu
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Running Debian from SD card slot in dl380 G6. Yes or no?
I would like to run Debian 10 OS from the SD card slot in dl380 G6. It's a minimal install.
I will run nextcloud on this server for personal use which will be ofcourse on the disks. I was wondering if this is a good idea so I don't loose my drive…
Stephane
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Unresponsive FreeBSD kldload process locks up whole system
Newly installed FreeBSD 12.1 and 11.4 immediately freezes when loading oce by running kldload if_oce. The whole system becomes locked up at this time. CTRL+c and CTRL+z don't work.
What is the starting point to find out the problem cause?
Why does…
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Container-Optimized OS - Erro Log everyhour
I have one VM with ContainerOS with the specific configuration:
Image: cos-stable-76-12239-60-0
Machine: g1-small (1 vCPUj, 1,7 GB)
CPU: Intel Broadwell
Every hour this VM log these erros message:
Failed to call method:…
Daniel Carvalho
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How to update /etc/os-release
I installed debian buster on a server while it was the debian testing release. Now that buster is the current stable release, I've updated /etc/apt/sources.list and run apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, and apt-get dist-upgrade. However my…
zwiebelspaetzle
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How to convert swap partition from RAID1 to RAID0 using mdadm
How to convert linux SWAP memory from RAID1 to RAID0?
Start with:2 exact size swap formatted partitions (/dev/sdc5 and /dev/sdd5) on 2 physically separate disks that are used via Software RAID(named md127, located /dev/md/s) in RAID 1…
dankilev
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how to view memory used by operating system and web server in hyper v
I have a situation where i need to view memory and disk space used by operating systems (windows2012r2 and centos) and web servers (IIS(windows2012r2) and apache(centos)), both of them made as a virtual servers in hyper v.
Sadist King
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AIX SMS Menu + Netapp Multipath cause BOS migration issues
I'm performing an AIX migration from 7.1 to 7.2 using the DVD Iso on a VIOS Virtual Library.
At the point the migration starts, it fails with the following message:
0516-1775 varyonvg: Physical volumes hdisk0 and hdisk4 have identical
PVIDs…
Dumb admin
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How to trust/verify cloud server provider accessing your box?
it is generally admitted that a computer can be considered unsecure when someone else than the designated operator has physical access to it.
But since hosted servers are remote, in a datacenter, and basically someone elses computer, how can one…
Bytemare
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added a new network interface, lost connectivity
After adding new subnet ip to new interface, the new ip was being used in previous interface em1 like so: ifcfg-em1:3 ... when I moved the IP to ifcfg-em2 and issued the following command ifdown ifcfg-em1:3
I lost my connection to ifcfg-em1…
Zodzie
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Can't disable PXE on HP DL180 G6 and thus not install an OS
I bought a 4 bay version of the HP Proliant DL180 G6 with 2x Intel Xeon L5640 and 16GB of RAM. It also has 2 x 2TB SAS Drives in Raid 1 installed. Additionally I added a SSD which should later have the OS on it (the problems were there even before…
M.Wagner
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rsync command works on Linux, not Mac OS X
I recently migrated from Linux to Mac for my primary machine. I use rsync to update several static websites. Here's the command:
rsync -avzu —exclude=.git /Users/[me]/src/[site] [user]@[host]:/home/public
The command ignores the git folder and…
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Can Linux be configured to disallow a program from using mlock()?
Can Linux be configured to disallow a program from mlocking memory and/or put a cap on how much it is allowed to mlock?
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