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Archive for March, 2008

I found a quick way to clear the terminal without using the “clear” command.

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Just hit command +K.

Watch gsm phone??

Sunday, March 30th, 2008

Apparently these fellas are selling a Dick Tracy style GSM watch. I would like to know a few things happen before I would buy one.

1. I would like to see it in use, not that I would be using the build in speakerphone mode much, I would probably use a headset; its just that I don’t buy gadgets that I have never seen work.

2. Is it waterproof?

3. $700 are you kidding me? I’ll give you $250.

4. isync???, does it work as a gprs modem?

5. How well does it work while in silent mode, does it even vibrate? If so would I notice it while watching a movie?

Who needs an ipkvm?

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

I figured out how to remotely power cycle the two poweredge 850’s I have remotely. I used dells ipmitool rpms and a little help from the internet.
1. Install the rpms
2. load the needed modules
modprobe ipmi_si
modprobe ipmi_devintf
3. configure the network, and auth as seen here
4. test xxxx

I made a liboggz installer for OS 10.5

Friday, March 21st, 2008

Here. This includes the oggzrip utility. Maybe later I’ll give instructions for compiling things you intend to turn into packages. If I feel like it that is; biatches.

MySQL mangled my wordpress data.

Thursday, March 20th, 2008

I browsed to dacrib.net only to discover the wordpress initial install screen was being displayed. WTF? It must be the database I thought. Sure enough after running mysqlcheck against it I saw that one of the tables was marked as crashed. So I fixed it.

mysql> repair table wp_options;
+————————–+——–+———-+———-+
| Table | Op | Msg_type | Msg_text |
+————————–+——–+———-+———-+
| xxxx_wordpressdb.wp_options | repair | status | OK |
+————————–+——–+———-+———-+

All better now. Maybe I should set a cron up to do that every few months. Anyway I got a dump in case everything goes to hell sometime soon.

Go splunk yourself.

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Splunk is google for logfiles. Even the free license is all I would ever need with syslog configured properly on each server.

I am still alive.

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

I am looking for an 1100 sq ft+ loft on a decent block in brooklyn. Any takers?

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