Monthly Archives: October 2008

Limiting Resources: nice & ionice

Posted on Friday, October 31, 2008 by Matti

Limiting a certain process’ CPU usage can be done by changing its “nice“-value. This value determines how “nice” you are to other processes. If the value is high (10+) the process is considered very nice, because it’s not hogging up … Continue reading →

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MySQL: #1054 – Unknown column ‘table.columnname’ in ‘on clause’ Even Though Column Name Exists

Posted on Thursday, October 30, 2008 by Matti

You might run in to the following problem with a MySQL 5 installation. SELECT * FROM table1, table2 INNER JOIN table3 ON table1.columnname = table3.columnname; > #1054 – Unknown column ‘table1.columnname’ in ‘on clause’ While that would have been a valid … Continue reading →

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How To Mount A USB Hard Disk Through Command Line (Linux)

Posted on Wednesday, October 29, 2008 by Matti

Here’s how to mount a USB hard disk drive (ie; external storage) on a Linux server, through the command line.

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Widgets, Gadgets, … You Can Keep’m!

Posted on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 by Matti

Around the same time when “Web 2.0″ became (in)famous, there was also the uprising of widgets and gadgets. Meaningless clutter on your desktop/homepage, supposedly to give you “at-a-glance” information about subjects you like (the weather in a country thousands of … Continue reading →

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Exploring New Limits For Windows’ Task Manager (Through The Command Line)

Posted on Monday, October 27, 2008 by Matti

Everyone knows the Windows Task Manager (accessed through CTRL+SHIFT+ESC or via CTRL+ALT+DEL), and perhaps even Process Explorer (by Microsoft) as a tool used to identify all processes & programs running on your computer. You can use to shut dow services … Continue reading →

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