Category: Hardware
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Four
Has a year uptime as well! Yay 😉 It’s the one at the bottom. Running Ubuntu as OS (Dom0) and several Xen virtual machines (such as the nginx reverse proxy cache of this blog). Four is a dual core Xeon with 8Gb RAM.
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Mac OS X + SSD tweaks
Came across a pretty cool howto to tweak your SSD on a Mac. Only thing I noticed is setting the hibernate mode to 0 made my mac randomly wake up a few seconds after it went to sleep (and happened most often when closing the lid, less often when clicking the sleep button; randomly closing…
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One
Big grats to One, with its one year uptime. 😉 And been running for over 1500 days ! Old server is getting old. 🙁 (The 2nd one from the top ;), resting on that Xserve) This is an old dual P3 I got off eBay years ago. This blog is running on that server. It’s running…
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uptimed php file
If you’re running uptimed (or uprecords) and what to display it in a simple php page, you’ll notice the bold text makes the page somewhat ugly. Use this file to remove the bold chars and make it readable. Examples: zero, one, four, vm1, Sauron
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MRTG
As I often have people asking for the files I use to make my pretty MRTG graphs; I’ll publish them here. Here are some examples: Zero – One – Four – vm1 – Sauron The config files: Sauron (including Squid stats), Zero (including fan stats). List of files included: indexmaker; simple script (included with MRTG)…
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HP ProtectTools and Windows 7
If you’re having troubles using HP ProtectTools and Windows 7, you’ll probably using an outdated version of ProtectTools. Eventhough HP tells you this is the latest version for your notebook. A simple fix, is to download the latest version, which is model independent. Be sure to completely uninstall the previous version, reboot, and reinstall the…
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Vodafone Mobile Connect – Incorrect Pin code
As I usually use my SIM card in my iPhone, I booted my PC, plugged in the Vodafone USB Mobile Connect modem (HAUWEI 220 or something). I then inserted, with the USB device plugged in, my SIM card, and booted up the Mac (and later on Windows) Vodafone application, to connect my PC to the…
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Skimming
Good to know.
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Philips Network Hard Disk
I’ve got myself a cheap 500GB network hard disk. Been testing it, and seems to be working fine! It’s rather fast (it has a SATA2 disk in it) and it was really easy to set up. But I’m missing a few things; Impossible to format/check the disk for errors from the web interface Impossible to…