Archive for June, 2010
Ubiquiti NSM5
by iam8up on Jun.26, 2010, under geeky
Ideal solution for a short distance outdoor ptp link.
In the lab I get 150 megs aggregate (that is 100 by 50 megs due to the 100BaseT port) with AirMAX and 40Mhz channels.
Seriously Japan? WTF
by iam8up on Jun.21, 2010, under funny
You really will say WTF
BP should stand up to what it has done, alone
by iam8up on Jun.17, 2010, under news
Headlines are being made by a $20 billion fund to compensate victims — but the U.S. government is contributing all $20 billion dollars, according to a BP press release (h/t TPM). BP will contribute between $1 billion and $2 billion per quarter, starting in Q3 2010. In effect, the USA is giving BP an interest-free loan on favorable terms. BP’s stock rose rapidly today.
*BP cuts costs to save money
*BP royally fucks up, destroying businesses and the economy
*Government gives BP $20 billion 3-5 year loan for free
*BP says whoopsy daisy
http://www.wispa.org/?p=2566
http://tinyurl.com/25qzkkp
I feel absolutely cheated that my tax dollars are helping a company survive that destroys our economy.
First year med students
by iam8up on Jun.09, 2010, under food4brain, funny
First-year students at Med School were receiving their first Anatomy class with a real dead human body. They all gathered around the surgery table with the body covered with a white sheet.
The professor started the class by telling them: “In medicine, it is necessary to have 2 important qualities as a doctor. The first is That you not be disgusted by anything involving the human body.” For an example, the Professor pulled back the sheet, stuck his finger in the butt of the corpse, withdrew it and stuck his finger in his mouth.” Go ahead and do the same thing,” he told his students. The students freaked out, hesitated for several minutes, but eventually took turns sticking a finger in the butt of the dead body and sucking on it.
When everyone had finished, the Professor looked at them and told them, “The second most important quality is observation. I stuck in my Middle finger and sucked on my index finger. Now learn to pay attention.”
Dell PowerEdge R200 and ESX or ESXi
by iam8up on Jun.07, 2010, under vmware
What a mess.
The HCL says it works with ESX 3.5u5, 4.0 and 4.0u1. No mention of ESXi.
This blog suggests it works with ESXi 3.5u1. I can verify that it does NOT work with ESXi 3.5u5.
My personal tests (a simple install and connection with VIC):
Fail – ESXi 3.5u5
Win – ESXi 4.0u1, ESX 3.5 (trial)
I installed the only compatible RAID card (from Dell, ~$200 SAS 6 ir) and ESXi 4.0u1 is still working.
UPDATE: Just checked the website and they’re saying ESXi 3.5u5 works. I believe I have BIOS 1.3.1 and found this NOT to be true. I can’t take down my system to check anymore.
Linux – move to new hard drive
by iam8up on Jun.03, 2010, under linux
GREAT article on this…
Note if you copy/paste some of the commands the “-” comes out as “.” from that site to Putty.
Basically you add the new disk, usually for VMware you’ll run
echo "- - -" > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/scan
partition it the same (replicate the mount points and of course allot equal or greater space then current data use) and then mount them and run
cd /mnt/sdb1 && dump -0uan -f – /boot | restore -r -f -
cd /mnt/sdb3 && dump -0uan -f – /| restore -r -f -
or something similar. I usually partition /boot, swap and then /.
This worked on my CentOS 5 in VMware.
And for the longhand…
fdisk /dev/sdb
mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1
mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb3
mkswap /dev/sdb2
tune2fs -L "/boot" /dev/sdb1
tune2fs -L "/" /dev/sdb3
mkdir /mnt/sdb1 && mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
cd /mnt/sdb1 && dump -0uan -f – /boot | restore -r -f -
mkdir /mnt/sdb3 && mount /dev/sdb3 /mnt/sdb3
cd /mnt/sdb3 && dump -0uan -f – / | restore -r -f -
grub-install
grub>root (hd1, 0)
grub>setup (hd1)
grub>quit




