Its the most awesomest thing ever. Article I want an app that does the same thing locally.
That switch to kickstart that you always forget is likely ksdevice=link
It means use the ethernet device that has a link, and if it missing you will likely be prompted. It doesn’t matter much to me anyway now that I know how to properly manage a PXE environment; but it took a while to get it stuck in my head.
I found a quick way to clear the terminal without using the “clear” command.
Just hit command +K.
Watch gsm phone??
Apparently these fellas are selling a Dick Tracy style GSM watch. I would like to know a few things happen before I would buy one.
1. I would like to see it in use, not that I would be using the build in speakerphone mode much, I would probably use a headset; its just that I don’t buy gadgets that I have never seen work.
2. Is it waterproof?
3. $700 are you kidding me? I’ll give you $250.
4. isync???, does it work as a gprs modem?
5. How well does it work while in silent mode, does it even vibrate? If so would I notice it while watching a movie?
Who needs an ipkvm?
I figured out how to remotely power cycle the two poweredge 850’s I have remotely. I used dells ipmitool rpms and a little help from the internet.
1. Install the rpms
2. load the needed modules
modprobe ipmi_si
modprobe ipmi_devintf
3. configure the network, and auth as seen here
4. test xxxx
I made a liboggz installer for OS 10.5
Here. This includes the oggzrip utility. Maybe later I’ll give instructions for compiling things you intend to turn into packages. If I feel like it that is; biatches.
MySQL mangled my wordpress data.
I browsed to dacrib.net only to discover the wordpress initial install screen was being displayed. WTF? It must be the database I thought. Sure enough after running mysqlcheck against it I saw that one of the tables was marked as crashed. So I fixed it.
mysql> repair table wp_options;
+————————–+——–+———-+———-+
| Table | Op | Msg_type | Msg_text |
+————————–+——–+———-+———-+
| xxxx_wordpressdb.wp_options | repair | status | OK |
+————————–+——–+———-+———-+
All better now. Maybe I should set a cron up to do that every few months. Anyway I got a dump in case everything goes to hell sometime soon.
Go splunk yourself.
Splunk is google for logfiles. Even the free license is all I would ever need with syslog configured properly on each server.
I am still alive.
I am looking for an 1100 sq ft+ loft on a decent block in brooklyn. Any takers?
Put some debian in your mouth: 24 hours of Ubuntu vs Fedora
I had forgotten how nice apt was in relation to yum. I mean yum is great, I could never build a package manager like rpm; let alone a utility as versatile and helpful as what yum is. I may have the capacity to build something that sucks right around the level of up2date 0.6. I had managed to keep that machine running fedora for years, beginning with fedora core 2. I had never reinstalled, or performed fresh installs during that time, I just kept modifying the repos, running yum update, and fixing major issues as they came up. That machine has gone through a lot with me; but it has always been a dev machine. From my first install of Asterisk that I would later use to build Viatalk, to being my test machine while studying for the RHCE. I appreciate what the community has given me. Without open source software I wouldn’t be a system admin. I would never have found the interest. Maybe I would be a cop.
Ubuntu as a distro feels very by the people/ for the people. Things that I didn’t expect to work like playing mp3’s out of the box did with very little work on my end. I tried it for a day, and just went right back home. To fedora 9.