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New Project Idea!
Ok. Not much detail yet. But I have a couple of Beaglebone Blacks and a couple of Raspberry PIs on the way. Guess I should brush up on my Python….. Update: Sept 12, 2013 The BeagleBone and RasPi boards have arrived. Really looking forward to seeing what they can do. I still can’t get over […]
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iPXE on Dell C6100 (BIOS Mod)
My step by step instructions on modifying the Dell PowerEdge C6100 BIOS firmware to replace the stock Intel iSCSI/PXE bootloader with the much more versatile iPXE firmware. Some of iPXE features include boot from ATA over Ethernet, FCoE, Infiniband network, HTTP web server and of course iSCSI. It supports an advanced scripting environment that can […]
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Upgrading Dell C6100 BIOS
These are my step-by-step instructions how to safely upgrade the Dell PowerEdge C6100 without bricking the nodes. Couple of points: If your service tag is not on Dell Site, you can not upgrade. Forcing the flash will likely brick your node. Always upgrade the BMC first. BMC must be upgraded on ALL nodes in the […]
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More Servers
Did another border run to pick up a pair of Dell PowerEdge C6100 cloud servers plus some other goodies. More info regarding the C6100’s coming soon….
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New ZFS Server
I bought a new server to replace my Dell PowerEdge R710. The new server is an HP DL180 G6. Equipped with E5620 CPU and 48GB of RAM. The server also came with 12 300GB 15,000 RPM SAS drives. These drives will be split between the server backplane and a Dell PowerVault MD1000 to increase throughput. […]
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New Toys!
Did a border run today to pick up whole bunch of new toys from CBI. Can’t wait to tear into this stuff…
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New Mail Server – The Search
Looking to set up a new mail server. Currently running Exchange Server but it’s a pain to manage multiple domains. Spam filtering not great. I have few dozen domains and I’d like to consolidate them. I need an easy to use and manage server where I don’t have to spend too much time on it. […]
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Upgrading Force10 S50
I picked up another Force10 S50 switch from eBay. This one will be going to the datacenter to replace a couple of Dell switches. First thing’s first. Need to configure the switch for remote management. Let’s see what we got. Force10 Boot Code… Version 01.00.25 05/12/2005 Select an option. If no selection in 2 seconds […]
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How to bring down a rack in just few quick easy steps.
Note to self. pfSense full + SSD = Not Good. Had a bit of a kerfuffle over the long weekend. Was working remotely on a firewall trying to get NAT through VPN working properly, the firewall didn’t appear to work as it should so I decided to reboot it to make sure all routes are […]
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New Web Site
Been spending some free time lately learning some new technologies and improving my knowledge of others. End result: http://www.jubjoo.com Implemented with C# 2012, ASP.Net, SQL 2012. Using .Net Framework 4.5, Entity Framework 5.0, WCF. Latest Telerik for Ajax release. Extensive use of Linq (Linq2Sql), Lambda expressions. In-Memory image manipulation. Video decoding/encoding. SEO Optimization using URL […]