Written by In a cabinet in a top secret location somewhere in the Pacific Northwest, I’ve got two Dell PowerEdge 2950s, each with four 2GB DIMMs installed. I purchased four additional 4GB DIMMs to upgrade the memory in both to a total of 16GB, and installed them in the servers last night, so that each server’s DIMM slots [...]
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Dual Boot Windows 7 and Fedora 12 Linux with Dell Utility and Recovery Partitions
After successfully setting up a dual boot of Windows 7 (64-bit) and Fedora 12 on my new Dell Studio laptop, I wanted to record some of the tricks that were necessary to get it done. The laptop is a Dell Studio 1737 (why didn’t they call it 1337?) which came pre-installed with Windows Vista Home [...]
READ MORE »DKIM Proxy Install on CentOS 5.4
UPDATE 10/18/2010: Since writing this post, I have upgraded to CentOS 5.5 and have switched to using OpenDKIM to sign outgoing mail. It will also work great with CentOS 5.4. An updated blog post with step-by-step instructions is here.
READ MORE »Remote Access of a Dell PowerEdge 2650 and DRAC III running CentOS 5
I found this post from darkness very helpful when I moved from an older RHEL to CentOS 5.4 on a Dell PowerEdge 2650 server: http://darkness.codefu.org/wordpress/2006/09/22/247 Adding: i8042.dumbkbd=1 to the kernel command line (it’s in /boot/grub/grub.conf) worked exactly as advertised. Apart from the keyboard input being a bit slow, and not being able to press the [...]
READ MORE »My iPhone is BIG in Japan, thanks to Emoji!
Got an iPhone? Wanna freak out and impress your iPhone-toting friends? Then you should enable Emoji and send them some Japanese love! What’s Emoji? They’re cool little Japanese icons that Japanese people in Japan use on Japanese mobile phones to express their Japanese emotions to other Japanese people with Japanese phones. I think it was [...]
READ MORE »Installing Broadcom 4306 (43XX) Drivers in Ubuntu
By default, the Broadcom 4306 drivers (which are found in the Acer Ferrari 3000 laptop) are not installed with Ubuntu 9.04. After a fresh install, connect the system to the internet via an Ethernet cable, and run: sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter then reboot the system. The wireless adapter should now be working properly. More info [...]
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