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Are SSD drives as reliable as mechanical drives (2013)?

SSD drives have been around for several years now. But the issue of reliability still comes up. I guess this is a follow up from this question posted 4 years ago, and last updated in 2011. It's now 2013, has much changed? I guess I'm looking for…
hookenz
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Command line to list users in a Windows Active Directory group?

Is there a command line way to list all the users in a particular Active Directory group? I can see who is in the group by going to Manage Computer --> Local User / Groups --> Groups and double clicking the group. I just need a command line way to…
Flyer
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How to remove the "installed manually" flag and revert to "automatically installed" with apt-get?

To compile something, I needed the zlib1g-dev package to be installed so I launched an apt-get install zlib1g-dev. apt-get informed me nicely that the package was already auto-installed because of an other package, and that it understands that I…
Steve Schnepp
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Sometimes PowerShell stops sending output until I press enter. Why?

Periodically I notice PowerShell seems to take forever to finish doing whatever it is I told it to do until it occurs to me to "wake it up" by pressing enter. This is not the fault of any one process as best I can tell, as I have even run custom…
Nathan Ridley
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How do I find the UUID of a file system?

I'm running Ubuntu, and want to find out the UUID of a particular filesystem (not partition). I know I can use e2label /dev/sda1 to find out the file system label, but there doesn't seem to be a similar way to find the UUID.
Brad Gilbert
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How do I make ssh fail rather than prompt for a password if the public-key authentication fails?

I've got a script that SSHes several servers using public key authentication. One of the servers has stopped letting the script log in due to a configuration issue, which means that the script gets stuck with a "Password:" prompt, which it obviously…
rjmunro
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Amazon Cloudfront with S3. Access Denied

We're trying to distribute out S3 buckets via Cloudfront but for some reason the only response is an AccessDenied XML document like the following: AccessDenied Access Denied …
Jordan Adams
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Why do consoles sometimes hang forever when SSH connection breaks?

I've seen this with so many consoles (on Linux, Mac, ...), and with lots of different machines in many different networks. I can never pinpoint the exact reason, why this happens: All you have to do is log in to a machine via SSH. If the connection…
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Are networks now faster than disks?

This is a software design question I used to work on the following rule for speed cache memory > memory > disk > network With each step being 5-10 times the previous step (e.g. cache memory is 10 times faster than main memory). Now, it seems that…
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Make nginx to pass hostname of the upstream when reverseproxying

I run several docker containers with hostnames: web1.local web2.local web3.local Routing to these done based on hostname by nginx. I have a proxy in front of this setup (on different machine connected to internet) where I define upstream as: …
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best way to clear all iptables rules

I currently have this snippet: # flush all chains iptables -F iptables -t nat -F iptables -t mangle -F # delete all chains iptables -X Is there a possibility that some impervious rule will stay alive after running this? The idea is to have a…
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SSH Suddenly returning Invalid format

So a while ago I set up a server on AWS, and used their generated SSH key. I saved the key to Lastpass, and have successfully retrieved it from there before, and got it working. However, after trying that again today, I can't get it to…
Gregor Menih
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How do I rename a task in Task Scheduled on Windows Server 2008 R2

I have some tasks in the Task Scheduler on Windows 2008 R2. I created them as the admin and I'm logged in as the admin. I have no easy way to rename the tasks. The only way I can is to export the task config to a XML file and re-import to a new…
Mark
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Wildcard SSL certificate for second-level subdomain

I'd like to know if any certificates support a double wildcard like *.*.example.com? I've just been on the phone with my current SSL provider (register.com) and the girl there said they don't offer anything like that and that she didn't think it was…
Rob Long
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Is it possible to make Nginx listen to different ports?

I created one Nginx with one Linux Azure VM, is it possible to make nginx listen to different ports so that when I change the port number, the content would be different. I found there would be a collision if I created two or more ports related to…
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