David Gessel
Happy Spider
I made this sweater for you, try it on?
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Nothing could possahbly go wrong.
United pod ports
The pod ports include usb (power only, I think), a network connection (!), a 110V outlet as well as the wacky proprietary iPod connector that they still don’t have the cable for.
A week of tweets: 2009-05-24
- Off to meetings in boston, toronto, and LA; back home in SF by weds. #
- In cambridge now, stopped at home to get the laptops synced, now at Miracle of Science having beef skewers and fisherman’s ipa. #
- #toscis just heard story of the unrepentant laptop user. #customerfail #
- In canada for victoria day. Tim hortons is packed with empire celebrating canadians. Fireworks visible on landing at YYZ. #
- Off to ORD from YYZ: lovely day here. Flight crew talking about customs hassle. Seems pretty easy to incurr a $10k fine by accident. #
- Unusual approach at ORD. Pretty. http://twitpic.com/5ipkd #
- Two rental hybrids in a row and then a mustang convertible in LA. Karma isn’t always a bitch. http://twitpic.com/5jiia #
- Highly recommended: la cabana at lincoln and rose. Be there in 20 min. #
- My white convertible mustang rental had <10 miles on it and blue tape still on the controls. A perfect over 40 rental. #
- Returned rental mustang with 26 miles on it. Back to after 3 city tour. LA was pleasant enough. #
- New unbelievably irritating and stupid TSA rule: all shoes out and on the belt. Because it wasn’t slow enough before. #securityfail Obama?! #
- calcru: runtime went backwards strange… pfSense 1.2.2, seems like a 2006 vintage error. #
- It was a genuine honor to celebrate Dr. Wehner’s doctorate with the doctor himself tonight. And some fine Scotch. #
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Civic Hybrid Zip Car
A week of tweets: 2009-05-17
- La lovely today, even in a red impala. Commuting to the office in santa monica this week… #
- RT @seanpercival I see twitter made some changes, and a few of you need to get a life #
- Lax to sfo today. Nice time in santa monica: pleasant 5 mile run on beach yesterday: one could get used to it… #
- Back in SF. Yay. #
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Updating an IBM 366
Today I’m updating an IBM 366-8863 to be a new home server because not having a quad 64 bit Xeon box with 24G of RAM and 6 x 72G SAS RAID 10 in your house would be like watching TV on a black and white CRT or something… and it was $350 on eBay so who could resist? It will replace the old 5500 M20 and save 3U in the rack and probably a lot of power for a decent NAS box.
Unlike the 335, the 366 does not have a floppy drive. There’s actually room in the cas right behind the IBM logo, next to the lightpath diagnostics and above the optical drive… maybe I should get out my dremel and start looking for a 266Mhz 64bit PCI-X floppy controller.
The 366 is supported by the IBM Bootable Media Creator, which is a new thing for me. This tool gathers all of the most recent firmware updates for the servers you specify (or all supported ones) and creates a single bootable disk (the 335 is not supported). The tool found 23 updates for the 8863, though the versions are not all the same as you get doing the one-by-one download (there’s an option to select manually, but the integrated one-click approach is much easier).
All you do is download the creator tool for the OS of your choice, execute it, specify the systems you want to support, let it gather the updates and build the disk and it will even burn the disk for you. Once the update disk is burned, you simply boot with it into a GUI (which supports normal mouse keyboard) and a few restarts later you have a fully patched machine.
The only thing left is to use the latest ServeRAID disk to update your ServeRAID configuration.
Nice job IBM! This sort of thing is why I like IBM machines. Plus they’re black. And they have the built in KVM/console controller over IP (remote supervisor II).