If you find Toast is running very slow on your Mac and you've tried all the other fixes, check to make sure you don't have any mounts defined on your Mac as Toast will continue to try and mount them ad nauseum - thereby causing the slowness. You can check Directory Utility to see if … Continue reading Roxio Toast Titanium on Mac OS X opening / running very slow – hello DTrace!
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Finding / Eliminating rogue NFS mounts in Mac OS X
There is a handy utility called Directory Utility which allows you to configure connections to directory servers. It also contains information for persistent NFS mounts across reboots. If you ever wondered where these phantom mounts came from or you are trying to eliminate a mount that no longer exists go to /System/Library/CoreServices/Directory Utility. From within … Continue reading Finding / Eliminating rogue NFS mounts in Mac OS X
Installing Spotify on Fedora
So Spotify is finally available in the US, which is good news for those who are getting tired of Pandora. Hell, Pandora played Celine Dion on my Hardcore Punk Radio Station the other day...wtf. So anyway, I decided to sign up and was disappointed to find that they did not have an official linux client, However they do publicize an Ubuntu client here, however, since I run Fedora this is not much interest to me.
Bind – Zone File Serial Number Reset
Each and every zone file has a unique serial number and that serial number should increment with each subsequent revision A serial number is traditionally in the format (YYYYMMDDSS) where SS the sequence number. For example, today is 1/21/2011, so the serial number in a zone file modified today would be... 201101210. So lets say … Continue reading Bind – Zone File Serial Number Reset
Rsync How to
Rsync is a very very useful command with a whole bunch of options. However most of the time if you run rsync on the command line you only need to know a few. #rsync -avz foo:src/bar /data/tmp This would recursively transfer all files from the directory src/bar on the machine foo into the /data/tmp/bar directory … Continue reading Rsync How to
mkisofs – Make an iso from a cd or directory
This morning while working on getting a CentOS Jumpstart Server setup with a Knoppix rescue boot image I ran across the following simple utility mkisofs. It was not installed on my box so I had to get it via yum. In the example below I created an iso from a directory knoppix51 mkisofs -o knoppix51.iso … Continue reading mkisofs – Make an iso from a cd or directory
RotateLog
More often than not I run into applications that do not know how to clean up after themselves or their log files. On a couple of my boxes, there are applications that have two years of logs squirreled away, just taking up space. Since the application owners do not seem to care about these logs, … Continue reading RotateLog