Server chronicles - Drobo on ProLiant

 On the old server I used a USB Drobo unit to backup data.

In theory should be enough to connect the unit to the server to see it .. and in part is true, but there are some unexpected problems.

Monitoring a Mac CPU

Recently I'm using some very CPU intensive programs on the mac, like Xamarin (Visual Studio), Android Studio and test code.

Sometime, when I'm running a lot of this stuff, the Mac is clearly slowed down and can be useful to know what is going on.
So I did look around for some monitor application, possibly capable to show what is going on on the tray.

I did found many apps but I wanted something small and possible free :)

I did found MenuMeters, a very small and nice app, but unfortunately is not supported since 2014 and thus is not working on the latest releases of Mac OS.
However somebody did write a patch to allow this utility to run also on newer systems (at least for now, it seems Apple is locking down even more the systems to prevent this kind of third party utility to run).

Click here to find the patch for the MenuMeters app.

Force bash under Ubuntu

Many Ubuntu distributions use dash as default for the shell.
I prefer the classic and more powerful bash.

Here a quick way to force the bash shell as default.
Open a terminal and execute this command :

$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure -plow dash

A message will appear indicating the default shell in use (it should say "dash", in this example is bash because I already executed the dpkg-reconfigure)

Choose No.
Done. From now on the bash shell is the default one for the user.