unslung happiness

while cleaning out the magical closet of ancient relics, i came across one that i had forgotten i even owned, a linksys nslu2 (nslug). so i powered it on and updated the firmware (fully unslung using a 2gb flash drive): here are some more specs from this little bad boy: cpu specs: $ cat /proc/cpuinfo … Read More

ssh redirection for DRAC

simple ssh technique to access those pesky dell DRAC addresses from home when its completely firewall’ed : sudo ssh -L 443:<drac ip>:443 -L 5900:<drac ip>:5900 -L 5901:<drac ip>:5901 -l <user> -N <machine> the reason this is being run with sudo is that you can not forward privileged ports once this command is run, just open … Read More

boredom

boredom led me to write a command that does the same thing but three different ways; assume that the file that is being cat to use for this example contains: line 1 line 2 <form id=”form_login” name=”form_login” method=”post” action=”session_id=XXXXXx.xxxxx.NAM1&locid=0&lf=0&i> and i need NAM1 only. well, i actually need the three letter code and number. it … Read More

nice view

080626 14:45:35 [Note] Slave SQL thread initialized, starting replication in log ‘mysql-bin.000015’ at position 3370, relay log ‘./dbase-relay-bin.000002’ position: 235 080626 14:45:35 [Note] Slave I/O thread: connected to master ‘slave@10.0.0.1:3306’, replication started in log ‘mysql-bin.000015’ at position 3370 ….that makes me feel better….

*** firesale ***

68th annual pissedoffadmins.com firesale and chutney cyberspace bbq anouncing the second 68th annual pissedoffadmins firesale. after the non-success of last years, i figured lets do it again. but this time, lets run it the whole month of june. some of the items up for grab this year are: thinkpad t42p with tons of stickers (working … Read More

geek humor…… of sorts

so i was talking to mike the other day and this is the what he states about his code: mike s back thanks 😀 i like my code like i like my women tight, clean, black and white and full of hash marks err … covered in comments? hmm…. i’ll work on that for next … Read More

SGI Fuel images

here are a couple of pictures of the sgi fuel. the images are not all that great but i dont really care. *** pictures are of the actual unit and are huge for detail *** front rear label ram / air vent i might post more.

changing your cpan mirror

easiest way ive used (keep in mind i use cpan every once in a while) : # perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan> o conf init again, im not a cpan guru or master.

gtkpod + gentoo + quad xeon = temperature issues

CPU3: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 1) CPU2: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 1) Machine check events logged CPU3: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 6359) CPU2: Temperature above threshold, cpu clock throttled (total events = 6359) Machine check events logged CPU3: Temperature above … Read More