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…
I have encountered it on several cases. RedHat Linux ES, by default, uses smp kernel which is limited to eight cores, or two sockets. You find out that your multi-socket hardware, with its 16 (or more…) cores show you only the first eight, both by the simple method of running ‘top‘ and then pressing on…
I have an iPaq running Windows Mobile 2003 SE. The above error was something I’ve seen when I tried installing SkyPE for PocketPC on it. It appears that SkyPE have decided to sign cab files, according to some new (and pretty unexplained) concept of MS, disregarding any existing non-WinXP or non-ActiveSync4.2 users (and I am…
A while ago, a newer version of Cacti became available through Dag’s RPM repository. An upgrade went without any special events, and was nothing to write home about. A failure in one of my customer’s Cacti system lead me to test the system using “spine” – the “cactid” new generation. I felt as if it…
I wanted to purchase a keyboard for my PSP for a long while. Only several days ago I actually did it. I was surprised at how simple it is to connect and use it. Mind that it: 1. Requires OE firmware (I use 3.03-OE) 2. All is a beta/alpha software, and misbehaves accordingly, on occasions….
In a given place, an AirPort has been connected to the Internet. A Linksys router was added, however, it does not support acting as repeater, however, hidden, there is the ability to act as a WDS master. The secret is based on the following steps, using the default firmware: 1. Setup Linksys for WEP, setup…
