Today my DBA reported that the server she was working on was spitting out “too many open files” errors and no new processes could be started. This is a common problem with DB servers with heavy transactions. In my environment there are 6 DB instances running on the server. No quite the optimized setup I would say. The fix was to increase the total file descriptors kernel parameter count in the /etc/sysctl....
Most Linux desktop users don’t fancy the default fonts which ship default with Linux. Luckily there are a few ways you could easy enjoy Microsoft fonts on your Linux desktop. The simplest way would be to use the package manager to add distro specific packages to install the fonts. openSUSE, Ubuntu and many other distros now provide the fonts with a disclaimer which you will have to agree to before the fonts get installed....
[View full size.][1] [][1] Well, looks like Google influence is everywhere today. Just look at the latest offering from designer [Satya Paul][2]. Satya Paul is known for his new age and dynamic designs. The web 2.0 of the fashion world you could say. The sari seen above actually says Oogle and not Google but the search results that fill the sari surely is convincing. Hopefully Google doesn’t get ideas to start making uniforms for Indian woman now....
You decided to switch desktops to Linux and now you can’t access your office IE only intranet. What do you do? Well, you could IEs4Linux on WINE. WINE is a opensource Windows API implementation for the Linux platform and IEs4Linux is the “installer” which will download, install and get IE to work with WINE. Add the WINE repository for openSUSE 10.3. YaST2 -> Software -> Software Repositories. http://software.opensuse.org/download/Emulators:/Wine/openSUSE_10.3/ ...
If you are like me then you must hate the “BEEP!” that comes along with Linux. Turning it off in KDE or Gnome is easy but what if you are on the virtual console? Here’s how you get rid of the “BEEP!” temporarily or permanently. Temporary solution, ** make sure to be root or use sudo ** Check if you have the pcspkr module loaded. [root@nosebleed ~]# lsmod | grep pcspkr pcspkr 7105 0 Remove the module....