How do you uninstall the package manager “pip”, if installed from source?
pip uninstall pip will work
system-administration
When could or should I use chmod g+s on a file or directory?
Setting directories g+s makes all new files created in said directory have their group set to the directory’s group. This can actually be really handy for collaborative purposes if you have the umask set so that files have group write by default. Note: This is the way it works in Linux, it could work completely … Read more
Free DNS server for Windows XP/Vista/Win7? [closed]
As a reference: http://sourceforge.net/projects/acrylic/ Acrylic is a local DNS proxy which improves the performance of your computer by caching the responses coming from your DNS servers. I found it to work flawless on every Windows system from XP up to Win8, and it’s open source. And yes, it supports wildcards… it even supports regex for … Read more
How do I get a list of locked users in an Oracle database?
Found it! SELECT username, account_status FROM dba_users;
What Process is using all of my disk IO [closed]
You’re looking for iotop (assuming you’ve got kernel >2.6.20 and Python 2.5). Failing that, you’re looking into hooking into the filesystem. I recommend the former.
How do I extract the contents of an rpm?
Did you try the rpm2cpio commmand? See the example below: $ rpm2cpio php-5.1.4-1.esp1.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.conf ./etc/php.d ./etc/php.ini ./usr/bin/php ./usr/bin/php-cgi etc
Map a network drive to be used by a service
Use this at your own risk. (I have tested it on XP and Server 2008 x64 R2) For this hack you will need SysinternalsSuite by Mark Russinovich: Step one: Open an elevated cmd.exe prompt (Run as administrator) Step two: Elevate again to root using PSExec.exe: Navigate to the folder containing SysinternalsSuite and execute the following … Read more