Memory and I/O when high load

vmstat 1 10000,

iostat -x 1 100000

4.07% Citibank CD w/credit card app

http://bankdeals.blogspot.com/2009/09/407-18-month-cd-25k-max-continues-at.html

https://www.citicards.com/cards/wv/pdf/SecuredCard_pdf_App_ENG.pdf

Citibank continues to offer a 4.07% APY 18-month CD as part of its Citi Secured MasterCard program. I first posted on this deal in early August. Since then several readers have reported success in opening this CD. One reader in particular has emailed me many details of his success with opening two of these CDs. He has very good credit, so he has proven that Citibank won't reject you if your credit is too good. Below is a new summary of this CD and application process based on Citibank documentation and the info I received from the reader.

CD Details

* 4.07% APY 18-month term as of 9/18/09 (You can see the rate online by clicking the disclosure link at the bottom of the Citi Secured MasterCard page)
* Minimum deposit is $200, Maximum deposit is $25,000
* Must also apply for secured credit card which has an annual fee of $29 (Will likely require two $29 charges during life of CD)
* Multiple CDs can be opened ($25K maximum for each). They allow you to only submit 2 applications each 60 days. This was told to him by a Citibank CSR.
* Interest rate in effect on the day your account is opened is guaranteed until maturity
* Interest is accrued daily and credited monthly
* You will earn interest beginning on the day your check is deposited in your account
* 30 day penalty of simple interest if you close the CD early
* CD will not renew automatically, and interest will not be paid after maturity.
* CD is opened under Citibank, South Dakota (FDIC Cert. # 23360) and not Citibank, Las Vegas (FDIC Cert. # 7213). Both are under the bank holding company of Citigroup.

Application Details as Reported by the Reader

* From the day application was mailed it took about 7 calendar days for the check to be cashed. This was verified by a phone call.
* Confirmation in the mail stating the 4.07% APY came about 18 days after the application was mailed. The documentation stated the CD open date as the date the check was cashed.
* Reader confirmed that they did a hard credit inquiry in the application.

Windows Server 2003 Tools

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=7AF2E69C-91F3-4E63-8629-B999ADDE0B9E&displaylang=en

Account Lockout and Management Tools
Treesize
User Manager for Domains (UsrMgr.exe)
Server 2003 Administrative Tools
PsKill v1.12 (get PsTools)
Sysinternals Suite has all of them.

Windows Server 2003

Symptoms:

Windows update website does not work, Greyed out Windows Update option. Restarting the two vital services of Windows update does not fix the problem.

Solution:

Open notepad and paste this, name the file fix.cmd and run after you save the notepad file by double clicking it on the desktop:

net stop bits
net stop wuauserv
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\atl.dll
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\jscript.dll
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\msxml3.dll
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\softpub.dll
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\wuapi.dll
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\wuaueng.dll
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\wuaueng1.dll
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\wucltui.dll
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\wups.dll
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\wups2.dll
%windir%\system32\regsvr32.exe /s %windir%\system32\wuweb.dll
net start bits
net start wuauserv
wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow

XenServer local ISO repository

To use local ISO storage from the control domain
1. Log onto the host console.
2. Create a directory to copy the local ISOs into:
mkdir -p /var/opt/xen/iso_import
3. Create an ISO storage repository by:
xe sr-create name-label=isos type=iso device-config:location=/var/opt/xen/iso_import/ device-config:legacy_mode=true content-type=iso
4. Copy the ISO images into this directory, taking care not to fill up the control domain filesystem.
5. Verify that the ISO image is available for use by xe vdi-list, or checking the CD drop-down box in XenCenter.

Hard-drive consistency check every month / or mounts #

The way to check the settings:
# dumpe2fs -h /dev/hdd1 (mount point/partition)

The way to change:
# tune2fs -c 50 /dev/hda1 (c for # of mounts, i for number of days/months)

PMKR WEP pass

8466093385