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…
Air Conditioning is considered a complicated matter. Not that it is so mathematically, but measurements, except for the general notion of “hot”, “hotter”, “cold” and “colder” are rather complicated, and require tools which are not common with the maintainers of server rooms. We trust flow diagrams, and air flow schema, however, the outcome should be…
I have come across a requirement to boot a thin client on a very cheap hardware into Linux. Due to the tight hardware requirements, and the tight budget, I have decided to focus on diskless systems, which can be easily modified and purchased to our needs. Not only that, but due to the hardware configuration…
I had one of my computers die a short while ago. I wanted to get the data inside its disk into another computer. Using the magical and rather cheap USB2SATA I was able to connect the disk, however, the disk was part of a software mirror (md device) and had LVM on it. Gets a…
Suse, for some reason, has to be over-complicated. I don’t really know why, but the time required to perform simple tasks under Suse is longer than on any other Linux distro, and can be compared only to other legacy Unix systems I am familiar with. When it comes to a more complicated tasks, it gets…
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 😉 This is the same rack, today
