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putty and screen and scroll-back buffer

When I use screen inside a putty session, I can't seem to use the scrollback buffer of putty to look at whatever just scrolled off the screen. Instead, I just see what was happening in the putty session just prior to my running screen. What am I…
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How should I burn in hard drives?

Google did a very thorough study on hard drive failures which found that a significant portion of hard drives fail within the first 3 months of heavy usage. My coworkers and I are thinking we could implement a burn-in process for all our new hard…
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How to quick and easy remove part of an URL in Nginx with HttpRewriteModule?

I know about the HttpRewriteModule, but I don't really know how to handle regex and I would need to redirect all URLs within a certain directory to another, specifically: From: example.com/component/tag/whatever To: example.com/tag/whatever Could…
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Configuring Apache2 to proxy WebSocket?

The WebSocket protocol is an extension of the HTTP protocol. However, the proxy module of Apache2 does not seem to know about it, and throws away crucial headers, converting the call to a standard HTTP call. Is there a way to make Apache2 either (1)…
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subdomain of a subdomain?

I am trying to create url like sub2.sub1.subdomain.domain.com. I am planning to use this to display different content. my questions are... 1) Is it possible to create such multi level sub domains? - is this based on the hosting company? 2) Isn't…
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nginx name-based virtual hosts on IPv6

I have an nginx server serving up nearly half a dozen different websites. It's running on a Linode that just got IPv6 native support (Dallas data center), and I'm trying to configure most of my sites for dual-stack operation. I got the first one up…
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Is the hostname case sensitive?

Is the hostname case sensitive? Is ping MYHOST equal to ping myhost Does it depend on the DNS used? Are there differences between Win/Mac/Unix systems?
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Run command in bash without save in history

How to run command in bash without saving it in history?
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Measuring 'total bytes written' under Linux

We're quite interested in exploring the possibility of using SSD drives in a server environment. However, one thing that we need to establish is expected drive longevity. According to this article manufacturer's are reporting drive endurance in…
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Overcoming maximum file path length restrictions in Windows

One of our customers habitually use very long path names (several nested folders, with long names) and we routinely encounter "user education issues" in order to shorten the path to less than 260 characters. Is there a technical solution available,…
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Is it safe to use consumer MLC SSDs in a server?

We (and by we I mean Jeff) are looking into the possibility of using Consumer MLC SSD disks in our backup data center. We want to try to keep costs down and usable space up - so the Intel X25-E's are pretty much out at about 700$ each and 64GB of…
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Can you help me with my software licensing issue?

This is a Canonical Question about Licensing. Questions on licensing are off-topic on Server Fault. If your question has been closed as a duplicate of this question, then this is because we want to help you understand why licence questions are…
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View content of memcached

Are there any tools to explore what is currently cached inside a memcached pool? Not some much graphs, but the actual key/values currently stored.
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View Shutdown Event Tracker logs under Windows Server 2008 R2

I'm trying to view the Shutdown Event Tracker logs in the Event Viewer, on windows server 2008 r8, but I can't find the messages that I supplied when previously restart the server. Where in the Event Viewer can I see these logs?
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Difference between and Apache directives

I have Zend Server installed and noticed something like the following was added to my httpd.conf file: Order Allow,Deny Allow from 127.0.0.1 Alias /ZendServer "C:\Program…
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