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Identify this machine. Please leave a comment with your guess. Maybe I’ll come up with some reward for the person who guesses correctly. Yes, it’s a real tool, it was even used on myself!

Is this the bank?

procs
Information about the numbers of processes in various states.

r in run queue

b blocked for resources (i/o, paging, etc.)

w runnable or short sleeper (< 20 secs) but swapped

memory
Information about the usage of virtual and real memory. Virtual

pages (reported in units of 1024 bytes) are considered active if they belong to processes which are running or have run in the last 20 seconds.

avm active virtual pages

fre size of the free list

page
Information about page faults and paging activity. These are averaged each five seconds, and given in units per second.

flt total number of page faults

re page reclaims (simulating reference bits)

pi pages paged in

po pages paged out

fr pages freed per second

sr pages scanned by clock algorithm, per-second

disks
Disk operations per second (this field is system dependent). Typically paging will be split across the available drives. The header of the field is the first two characters of the disk name and the unit number. If more than two disk drives are configured in the system, vmstat displays only the first two drives, unless the user specifies the -n argument to increase the number of drives displayed.

faults
Trap/interrupt rate averages per second over last 5 seconds.

in device interrupts per interval (including clock interrupts)

sy system calls per interval

cs cpu context switch rate (switches/interval)

cpu
Breakdown of percentage usage of CPU time.

us user time for normal and low priority processes

sy system time

id cpu idle

I’ve noticed a lot of people having problems loading gmail on IE lately. The problem seems to be from a recent update the gmail team did to the interface. If you are having trouble with gmail try this.

Change the url to:

http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1

or if you want SSL encryption, try with https:// as below:

https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1

notice the ?ui=1 on the end. This is

telling it to use an older version of the interface.

Straight to the point - What would if I WON this Google fridge.

I was SHOCKED at how much that little fridge held. 21 cans! Wow!

I would put it into my garage for storage of beer during the summer.

There is my 1 sentence answer.

If you drink coffee at work, and sometimes resort to the vending machine coffee. (Yikes) Yes, sometimes you have to do it.

Step 1. Buy some instant coffee.

Step 2. Don’t buy coffee out of the vending machine.

Instant coffee makes 105 cups of coffee.

if 105 cups were bought out of the vending machine:

105 x 25 cents = $26.25

Price of Instant Coffee = $7.14 (with tax)

$26.25 - $7.14 = $19.11 savings

Step 1 - Insert object into bottom.

Step 2 - Twist arm.

Step 3 - Fun vibrating pleasure.

Ever try to delete the contents of a large directory in nix type operating system? If you have many files you will get an error like “list to long” or something like that. This happens to some of my directories I use to cache pages, sometimes I want to clear them out manually.

So now what?

The easiest and quickest solution is to remove the entire directory with a command like this. Now, before you do it, you need to realize that you will have to recreate the directory when it’s done, so take note of the permissions you have on the directory first.

rm -rf directoryname

You can see the directory is now gone “No such file or directory”. Yes, that is exactly what I wanted!