This is a linux command line reference for common operations. Examples marked with • are valid/safe to paste without modification into a terminal, so you may want to keep a terminal window open while reading this so you can cut & paste. All these commands have been tested both on Fedora and Ubuntu. Command Description […]
From: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/06/15/dataslide_berkeleydb/ UK-based data storage start-up DataSlide has announced potentially revolutionary hard drive technology, and a Partnership Network agreement with Oracle for the Berkeley Data Base to be embedded into the device. DataSlide’s Hard Rectangular Drive (HRD) does not use read-write heads moving across the recording surface of a spinning hard disk drive (HDD). Instead […]
I’m sure everyone has had problem at one time or another trying to figure out why your machine is going so slow, but nothing appears to be using the RAM or CPU at all. The first option is to top ‘top’ and look for the line which has the ‘wa’ Cpu(s): 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 96.7%id, […]