ERROR: YUM -- Unfinished Transactions Remaining..

Linux is not perfect. Chances are when installing packages from repositories, some error will show up -- more commonly the conflict between packages. This prevents the install or update of the packages due to the conflicts. On rare occassions, there would be times when yum may...

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TIP: Taking Advantage of Virtual Hot Add Technology

As a system administrator, I could say virtualization is one of the best things that happened since sliced bread. This of course is in terms of utilization and the thin provisioning mechanism it entails. What usually happens is that, the guest operating system is tricked into...

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ERROR: TOO MANY USER/GDI objects are being used..

Multi-tasking is a function of the computer.. Humans (to a certain degree) are not capable of multi-tasking. It was handed a "busted" verdict when a subject was made to drive while being on the phone on an interview on the show Mythbusters. The subject miserably failed. Studies...

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TIP: PHP Install/Upgrade "Sanity Check"

I used to be a meticulous configure, compile and make installer of packages -- the old school Linux way of doing things. I customize to take advantage of the CPU optimizations to squeeze every bit of performance from the processor and any of the available resources the server has. And usually, the source is more updated than the pre-packaged binaries...

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