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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It’s sort of a relationship between myself and this Tyan. Same server, changing demands. This time, we’ve had to install on this server RHEL4 32bit. Net-installing RHEL4 Update 3 was impossible. See here, so we’ve installed it from CDs (didn’t have PCI-X network card handy). When booting the server, it showed us only a single…
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…
I have an old Dell server (R610, if it’s important) and I seem to fail to connect to its iDrac console via Java. No other options exist, and the browser calling Java flow fails somehow. I have found an explanation here, and I will copy it for eternity 🙂 First – Download the latest JRE…
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 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…
After upgrading my laptop to 2.6.15.1 kernel, hibernation worked flawlessly. Running my previous version of kernel – 2.6.14.2, I have had some hibernation instabilities. I’ve had some memory corruptions here and there, which would have required I reboot the machine. So far, and it’s been a while, I’m glad to say I had no reason…
