Linux Performance Monitoring
Today, sar
, it seems is not part of the Debian distros, one needs to install the package sysstat
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Today, sar
, it seems is not part of the Debian distros, one needs to install the package sysstat
.
This seems a bit unstable, actually a bit unfair but they have changed how they deal with bursting swap, and firefox at least uses snap and so I may need some more tools. Here are my notes …
This was originally written to collect a series of tips about augmenting the build, but I have a problem with stability and reboot. Here are my notes …
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Bother. Never as easy as you’d hope. Read More
I have left Elementary and returned to Ubuntu, which is on v20 now. I am tired of having Linux stuff just not work. Elementary’s distro upgrade path is a menace, there’s no RDP, cloud disks are a pain in the butt, and now I found problems with bluetooth. Here are my notes on starting up on Ubuntu again. … Read More
While writing my piece on DAAS, two years ago, where I came to the conclusion that Azure was a better host, I also looked at Ubuntu on Amazon. Here are my notes which consist mainly of videos. Read More
I screwed up the installation of a U14 Gnome installation and the user was not prompted on the desktop login panel. This was fixed by using the settings -> user accounts control.
Been trying to get my latest Linux Laptop to behave nicely while on battery. It’s an Elementary Luna build. I came to the conclusion that there’s not much that can be done; it’s one of those things we leave to the OS authors, in this case Canonical. Read More
While installing docker, I decided I needed to write some notifications to ensure the configuration works. See Docker. I started with a TCL/TK script, which these days looks a bit old school, and writing the packer was (& remains) difficult. Virtualbox reports its status on Ubuntu via a very pretty interface, prettier than Apple script anyway, so I thought I’d have a lock. This page contains the original notes in Ubuntu and Docker and has been supplemented by notes on Elementary and Raspbian. This seems easiest to use on Gnome/Ubuntu. There is a message sender i.e. notify-send, and a notification daemon and obviously a desktop.
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I had a quick look to check out erlang and installed it on one of my VMs. I also checked out what “Hello World” looked like. Stackoverflow has a getting started article here…. This article is currently just a couple of links. Read More
We have been looking at Text Mining, which takes me to the concept of Bag of Words & Carrot2. Read More
I am planning to install a linux on my last laptop, It is an HP Probook and has no CD/DVD. I need to choose a Linux, this, elementry os looks good and is derived from Ubuntu.
I’ll need to create a bootable USB stick, this page might help. Unetbootin is also poined to on the Elementary downlod page, both at sourceforge
I am installing this on the Mac under Virtual Box. This snip is about Ubuntu.
The first problem is that it comes with quite a bit of crap installed and the Unity search is over zealous and too network noisy.
This might be helpful, an article about the first 10 things to do. I seem to have a problem with finding the dash plugins to stop the internet searches. This needs to be tuned.
I want to configure the software package manager to check daily.
I have installed Unity Tweaks.
I have turned the virtual desktop manager on.
I have uninstalled Ubuntu One.