http://www.jimmy.co.at/weblog just for fun Thu, 05 Aug 2010 23:03:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en IBM provides a tool called “Bootable Media Creator” (bomc) which creates bootable media - like an usb key - that allows you to easily install all firmware updates even if there is no OS installed on the server. You just select your server model, e.g. x3650, and the tool downloads ... http://www.jimmy.co.at/weblog/?p=82 When using dirvish you usually have to use the local hostname for the client option in default.conf. In other words, the output of the command “hostname”. If it’s different than the client option than dirvish assumes that it’s a remote transfer and uses ssh to connect. So you can not ... http://www.jimmy.co.at/weblog/?p=80 Only one day left. I’ll be there at the grml-booth, which is a must see, again. See you there http://www.jimmy.co.at/weblog/?p=81 See you there http://www.jimmy.co.at/weblog/?p=78 Today I tried an upgrade of my debian unstable machine. Didn’t do this for several months, so I expected some problems, but this one was really hard to solve. I already had openoffice 2.4 installed, so there weren’t many changes, but after the complete upgrade the free fonts disappeared (FreeSans, ... http://www.jimmy.co.at/weblog/?p=75 A few months ago I bought the new x3350 Server. Previously the x3250 was my standard model for small solutions. But I was always missing some important features which are now available with the x3350. These are: Hot-swap redundant power supplies Dual Gigabit Ethernet for bonding Light path diagnostics Thank you IBM for exactly ... http://www.jimmy.co.at/weblog/?p=77 Remember the x206m and its “problematic” SAS/SATA Controller? Last night I tested the aic94xx driver again, which is also shipped with grml. Former releases of the driver worked with SAS but not with SATA. grml 1.1 comes with kernel 2.6.23, so worth a try. Unfortunately it’s still not ... http://www.jimmy.co.at/weblog/?p=76 Yes, this posting is called “forgotten posting” because I just realized that I never posted it, although i should had been done a long time ago A lot of people had problems with the Adaptec Controller in the x206m model. Fortunately, the successor x3200 has a LSI controller on ... http://www.jimmy.co.at/weblog/?p=74 The last days I tested the dualhead capabilities of the Lenovo X60s notebook. I had some problems to find a configuration that works without cloning the screen. But in the meantime a newer version of X and the i810 module was released which supports the Xrandr 1.2 extension. Thus it’s ... http://www.jimmy.co.at/weblog/?p=73 Today I tested my new IBM usb floppy. When I plugged it in, the kernel loaded the usb-storage module and assigned device node /dev/sdc to it. Mounting a floppy-disk worked as exptected. Then I decided that it would be nice if the floppy would always use the same device node, ... http://www.jimmy.co.at/weblog/?p=72