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Published in February 5th, 2008
Posted by cmoewes in Humor
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WTFs/m

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links for 2008-02-05

Published in February 5th, 2008
Posted by delicious in Delicious
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Learning Perl

Published in February 3rd, 2008
Posted by cmoewes in Books
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R. Schwartz, T. Christianson and L. Wall

This is it. This is the one and only “Learning Perl”. From beginning to end this book is useful for both the beginning Perl programmer and the old veteran. Well written and well documented, this book covers all the essential of learning Perl.

The original and still the best book of Perl.

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Published in February 2nd, 2008
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New Site, New Stuff

Published in January 30th, 2008
Posted by cmoewes in Opinion
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LinuxNovice is going to reopen itself in an attempt to help new linux users get the most out of their operating system.

Checking out your NIC

Published in February 22nd, 2002
Posted by admin in Test2
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Most network cards now-a-days autonegotiate their speend based on what the other end of your network cable will do. To see the speed of your card, as root, run mii-tool (part of the net-tools rpm).


root@host]# /sbin/mii-tool
eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok

You can get better performace by hard coding the speed and duplex. Since most NICs are jumperless, you need a tool to do this. Again mii-tool comes to the rescue.


root@host]# /sbin/mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD
root@host]# /sbin/mii-tool
eth0: 100 Mbit, full duplex, link ok
root@host]#

So there you have it, your NIC is now hard coded to full duplex, 100 Mbit. Why would you want to do this? Well by hard coding this value you prevent your NIC from renegotiating its speed which it might do and come in at a lower speed.