sweet uptime

this shot was yanked from a server at work that we were decommissioning: click to view

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

some new bootchart shots

here is a shot of my desktop starting up with bootchart: here is a shot after cleaning it up a bit: a difference of 5 seconds is not much but it is nice on startup bootchart is readily available from http://www.bootchart.org or in gentoo by emerging app-benchmarks/bootchart

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

android ssh: Warning: Reading the random source seems to have blocked.

error: # ssh user@someserver _dns_getaddrinfo() name = ‘someserver’ res_searchN() name = ‘someserver’ ssh: Warning: Reading the random source seems to have blocked. If you experience problems, you probably need to find a better entropy source.fuck… quick reference as taken from wikipedia: “begin knowledge”: Entropy (computing) In computing, entropy is the randomness collected by an operating … Read More

sun blade 2k lspci

aint that just attractive ?? # lspci 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Schizo PCI Bus Module 0000:00:04.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. QLA2200 64-bit Fibre Channel Adapter (rev 05) 0001:00:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Schizo PCI Bus Module 0001:00:01.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV100 QY [Radeon 7000/VE] 0001:00:05.0 … Read More

sun blade 2000 – even prettier site

qla2xxx 0001:00:04.0: Verifying loaded RISC code… firmware: using built-in firmware ql2200_fw.bin qla2xxx 0001:00:04.0: Allocated (252 KB) for firmware dump… qla2xxx 0001:00:04.0: LIP reset occured (f8f7). scsi2 : qla2xxx qla2xxx 0001:00:04.0: QLogic Fibre Channel HBA Driver: 8.02.01-k7 QLogic QLA22xx – ISP2200: PCI (66 MHz) @ 0001:00:04.0 hdma-, host#=2, fw=2.02.08 TP qla2xxx 0001:00:04.0: LIP occured (f8f7). qla2xxx … Read More

my phone

the specs of my phone: # uname -a Linux localhost 2.6.25-01843-gfea26b0 #1 PREEMPT Sat Jan 24 21:06:15 CST 2009 armv6l unknown # cat version Linux version 2.6.25-01843-gfea26b0 (jesusfreke@AndroidDev) (gcc version 4.2.1) #1 PREEMPT Sat Jan 24 21:06:15 CST 2009 # cat cpuinfo Processor : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 2 (v6l) BogoMIPS : 383.38 Features : swp … Read More

dirty snippet of an automated mysqldump & tar

DIRP=”location of backups” DATE=$(date +”%m-%d-%y”) MYSQL_SERVER=”location of mysql server” USER=”mysql user” PASSWORD=”mysql password LOOP_VAR=”mysql db names without prefix” for LOOP_VAR_TXT in $LOOP_VAR do LOOP_VAR_FILE=${DIRP}/${LOOP_VAR_TXT}.${DATE}.sql LOOP_VAR_DB=”db prefix”_$LOOP_VAR_TXT /usr/bin/mysqldump –user=$USER –password=$PASSWORD –host=$MYSQL_SERVER $LOOP_VAR_DB > $LOOP_VAR_FILE /usr/bin/tar -czvf ${LOOP_VAR_FILE}.tgz $LOOP_VAR_FILE rm $LOOP_VAR_FILE done find ${DIRP}mysql -mtime +13 -exec rm -f {} \; some quick and dirty code i … Read More