Nifty Shellcuts

Like shortcuts, but on the shell...🙄

Aliases for /etc/bashrc

• alias lll='ls -lart'
• alias daniostat='iostat -mtxyz'  (you can/should add a number, then pipe to tee to save to a file)
• alias danetstat='netstat -planut' (same as above)

And for ~/.bashrc

• set -o vi

More to come...

Windows 7 Update CPU slowdown (and what to do about it!)

The Problem

So this is my quick elaboration on this.  Which, I find, isn't that effective of a fix (at least on laptops), in that the system can still be slowed to a crawl when Windows update is kicked off.  Where Windows Task Manager will allow you to visualize the problem.  First from the consumed CPU,

Even when you have more cores, your PC can still feel quite sluggish.