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How do StatsD and CollectD relate?

How do StatsD and CollectD relate? Is StatsD and alternative to CollectD Is StatsD used to aggregate metrics coming from CollectD (and possibly other tools) something else entirely. If so what?
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Is there still a use for irqbalance on modern hardware?

This question has been asked before, but I believe that the world has changed enough for it to be asked again. Does irqbalance have any use on today’s systems where we have NUMA-capable CPUs with memory sharing between their cores? Running…
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What is the value of JAVA_HOME for CentOS?

I have install java through yum on CentOS, however another java programme needs to know what the JAVA_HOME environmental variable is. I know all about setting environmental variables, but what do I set it to? java is installed in /usr/bin/java, it…
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How do you handle "CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories"?

I am attempting to change directories to a file server such as: cd \\someServer\\someStuff\ However, I get the following error: CMD does not support UNC paths as current directories What are my options to navigate to that directory?
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Who uses Mac OS X Server and why?

I am really curious. Mac OS X as a server sounds like a very expensive solution that is not much better than the free one provided by free software. I understand paying extra for a nice UI and an Apple logo on your desktop computer or laptop (I did…
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What is a good solution to encrypt some files in unix?

I am looking for a utility to encrypt certain directories in Linux. I am not looking for any full disk encryption services, but simply to encrypt a few directories for the purposes of storing files in the cloud. Once retrieving them, I should have…
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How to delete .fuse_hidden* files?

I have small Linux server (Debian Squeeze) which runs a Samba server which is configured to share some folders with some windows machines. While trying to delete one of the directories from windows I received the "Cannot delete folder" error. I…
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Do some debian builds not have lsb_release?

A .deb package I am releasing expects that it can call lsb_release. One customer using Debian 6.0.5 indicated that the lsb_release command (even in the terminal) produces a command not found error. Is this standard or is there something wrong with…
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Damaged /vmlinuz and /initrd.img symbolic links after Kernel uninstall

OS: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Server Edition We just rolled back an kernel update using the following command: sudo apt-get remove linux-image-2.6.24-24-server The uninstallation was successful, but it had the following message before apt-get exited: The…
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OpenVPN performance: how many concurrent clients are possible?

I am evaluating a system for a client where many OpenVPN clients connect to a OpenVPN server. "Many" means 50000 - 1000000. Why do I do that? The clients are distributed embedded systems, each sitting behind the system owners dsl router. The server…
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Phishing site uses subdomain that I never registered

I recently received the following message from Google Webmaster Tools: Dear site owner or webmaster of http://gotgenes.com/, [...] Below are one or more example URLs on your site which may be part of a phishing…
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GPG - why am I encrypting with subkey instead of primary key?

When encrypting a file to send to a collaborator, I see this message: gpg: using subkey XXXX instead of primary key YYYY Why would that be? I've noticed that when they send me an encrypted file, it also appears to be encrypted towards my subkey…
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What is the meaning of an equal sign = or == at the end of a SSH public key?

I just noticed that most of the ssh pubkeys in my authorized_keys end on == or = E.g. ssh-rsa…
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EC2: is an instance's public DNS stable? Can I rely on it not changing?

I've launched my first instance, and am using it as a web server. I see that it has a public DNS (a public URL), e.g.: ec2-123-45-6-789.compute-1.amazonaws.com I can successfully go to this server in my browser, hit it via cURL, etc. I want to use…
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Where did "Wait 30 seconds before turning it back on" come from?

I guess these are the kinds of things I think about on the weekend... When I was growing up (not that long ago) my parents always taught us to wait 30 seconds after shutting down the computer before turning it back on again. Fast forward to today in…
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