screen shot for rage

here is a screen shot for rage since he likes seeing multiple processors in htop: iapetus: IBM eserver xSeries 235 MemTotal: 6229956 kB 4 x xeon 3.06ghz uname: Linux iapetus 2.6.29-gentoo-pappys_seeds #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 20 10:55:05 EDT 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux terminal is mrxvt mrxvt can be grabbed from … Read More

spring cleaning

to the 2 or 3 of you that read this, i am selling off some hardware: cobalt qube 3 sun blade 100 sun sparcengine cp1500 w/ chassis and 4 port nic sgi fuel 600 mvme 187 (mainframe) hp jornada 720 some random ipaq’s oqo model 1+ specs: sun blade 100 sun sparcengine sgi fuel 600 … Read More

unsupported sector size 520

so i picked up a batch of these 146gb (Vendor: IBM Model: IC35L146 CLAR146 Rev: R58A) FC-AL drives from a fire sale. i pop it into the machine when i notice this in dmesg: [ 86.717949] Vendor: IBM Model: IC35L146 CLAR146 Rev: R58A [ 86.717970] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 03 [ 86.720959] sdb : … Read More

sun blade 2000 specs

here are some numbers for the sun blade 2k: # cat /proc/cpuinfo cpu : TI UltraSparc III+ (Cheetah+) fpu : UltraSparc III+ integrated FPU promlib : Version 3 Revision 5 prom : 4.5.21 type : sun4u ncpus probed : 2 ncpus active : 2 D$ parity tl1 : 0 I$ parity tl1 : 0 Cpu0Bogo … Read More

gentoo + sun blade 2000 = first dmesg

# dmesg [ 0.000000] PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 4.5.21 2003/02/24 17:23 [ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.16.60 (root@livecd) (gcc version 4.1.2 (Gentoo 4.1.2 p1.0.1)) #2 Fri Dec 26 01:06:42 EST 2008 [ 0.000000] ARCH: SUN4U [ 0.000000] Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:36:12:53 [ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 1047627 [ 0.000000] DMA zone: 1047627 pages, LIFO batch:15 … Read More

little mass list rename script

quick and dirty script to rename *.jpg in one folder to poa_xxx.jpg numerically yes there is a way to do this in a shorter and cleaner matter. but i was tired and just wanted to get it done. #/bin/bash n=1 for f in *.jpg do if [ $n -le 9 ]; then mv “$f” “poa_000$n.jpg” … Read More

scp speeds

so i was scp’ing some files across my network when i realized that there is / was something wronf with the speeds at which the transfers were occuring. here is what i learned we will create a test file to copy around the network (not to big or it will take forever but not to … Read More

vulgar display of drivespace

uranus ~ $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 72G 28G 41G 41% / udev 10M 164K 9.9M 2% /dev /dev/sda1 99M 53M 42M 56% /boot none 1006M 0 1006M 0% /dev/shm mercury:/mnt/sdb1 68G 295M 64G 1% /media/mercury mercury:/var/www 67G 2.1G 62G 4% /media/mercury_web pluto:/mnt/disk1/All 909G 609G 254G 71% /media/pluto sol:/mnt/sol … Read More

gentoo evilwm & mrxvt

easy fix to convert ctrl alt enter from xterm to mrxvt in evilwm when your .xinitrc file does not get read: lg@machine ~ $ which xterm /usr/bin/xterm lg@machine ~ $ which mrxvt /usr/bin/mrxvt lg@machine ~ $ sudo mv /usr/bin/xterm /usr/bin/xterm.BAK lg@machine ~ $ sudo ln -s /usr/bin/mrxvt /usr/bin/xterm now by default your term session is … Read More

new screenshot

here is a new screenshot (since i have not done any in a while): os: gentoo current wm: evilwm term: mrxvt running htop xclock digital top right wallpaper from http://skitch.com/goodies/ (random google search)