@travisdh1 said in Getting Windows 10 License Upgrade on Linux Mint Laptop:

@scottalanmiller said in Getting Windows 10 License Upgrade on Linux Mint Laptop:

I'm about to do a full bare metal install 😞

Did you say goodbye to the rest of the family for the night?

The wife is off on a three day sorority bender... I mean retreat, for the weekend already.

The Linux system gets the use 99% of the time and needs priority as to performance and what not. The Windows install is just for gaming and is not even my main gaming machine. Just a secondary one. And I've lived with zero Windows access for most of a year, not a big deal.

@KOOLER "do guy" = "do gui" LOL

@momurda said in Building a Basic DRBD Cluster on OpenSuse 12.2:

What is the purpose of 'zypper -remove patterns-openSUSE-minimal_base'
I know what it does, but is it necessary? Does this minimal_base package prevent you from installing certain packages at a later date? Or you just making things nice n neat?

It's been quite some time, but if I remember correctly it interfered with some packages that we needed as the "minimal" blocked adding a bunch of stuff.

@scottalanmiller said in Installing MediaWiki on CentOS 6:

@travisdh1 said in Installing MediaWiki on CentOS 6:

Do they have a tui for firewall-cmd yet?

Not that I have seen.

I want to down vote RedHat.

@scottalanmiller said in Slow SSH Logins on Linux:

Often remote SSH logins on Linux can experience a lengthy delay. This is often caused by the SSH daemon on the server defaulting to attempting a DNS lookup of the SSH client attempting to connect to it. Typically we do not want this behaviour as client systems often cannot be verified in this manner but awaiting a DNS timeout can be rather annoying. Many systems configure this on by default. I see this in the Red Hat family including RHEL, CentOS, etc.

The fix is simple, just explicetly add the line:

UseDNS no

To the /etc/ssh/sshd_config configuration file. The default is “yes” and there should be a comment to this effect as well. After making the change, simply restart the SSH daemon for the change to take effect.

service sshd restart

Originally found in 2012 on my Linux blog here: http://web.archive.org/web/20140822224153/http://www.scottalanmiller.com/linux/2012/09/02/slow-ssh-logins/

Ran into this the other day. Windows to Linux was pretty slow, but Linux to Linux (using our Bind server) was super fast. Turned off DNS and GSSAPI and it was fine from Windows.