It has been about two years since I have visited a specific rack closet, and took pictures. Several days ago I have visited the same rack closet, and took some new pictures. You can tell time went by 😉
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I will discuss the issue of placing a Linux machine as a router, and some special cases where things might play a bit different. The most common scenario is of placing the Linux as some sort of PPP or DHCP-via-cables router. It might look like this: In this picture, the Linux machine actually recieves, via…
I’ve “fixed” such a computer a with tendency to freeze today. It happened that about every two hours, the computer froze. I let it roam for a while, and noted that the Chipset’s North-Bridge was getting terribly hot. The computer chassis was left open because of driver incompatibility regarding the on-board network interface, so a…
And my “lab zone” needs to be packed up. I’ve closed the lid of some of the computers in the lab, and piled them up. Got about 27 computers, some of them in working order, without counting my “Production” (yeah) computers, 6 computers acting as servers, two desktops and one laptop. Two additional laptops I…
I pause for a small unrelated island of happiness. I’ve bought PSP few month ago, and due to some issues with minor language bugs, I’ve upgraded its firmware, through its built-in interface, to a newer level. I had 1.50, and I’ve upgraded to 1.52. It was a major mistake. It seems there was (and still…
Recently, with the release of a new 8.x version of Dell SrvAdmin tools, the Centos/RHEL5 (and XenServer, by the way) repositories disappeared. It appears that Dell will not support the RHEL5.x brands anymore. The proper solution is to install the last 7 SrvAdmin tools, as can be shown in this site. This solves the problem…
I have been introduced to a very cool software/hardware combination yesterday. It has been, without exaggerating, one of the coolest things I have seen in a while. As you may know, x86 has an issue with scaling up. It’s that x86 architectures and price don’t justify scaling up to tenths and hundreds of CPUs. The…
