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July 22, 2010 0

Four

By Tuinslak in Hardware, Linux

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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June 8, 2010 0

Mac OS X + SSD tweaks

By Tuinslak in Hardware, Mac, Software

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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May 28, 2010 1

One

By Tuinslak in Hardware, Linux

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 Gentoo as [...]

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February 10, 2010 0

uptimed php file

By Tuinslak in Hardware, Linux, Software, www

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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November 18, 2009 0

MRTG

By Tuinslak in Hardware, Misc, Networking, Software, www

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 [...]

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October 30, 2009 0

HP ProtectTools and Windows 7

By Tuinslak in Errors, Hardware, Software, Windows

If you’re having troubles using HP ProtectTools and Windows 7, you’ll probably using an outdated version of ProtectTools.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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July 10, 2009 0

Vodafone Mobile Connect – Incorrect Pin code

By Tuinslak in Errors, Hardware, Networking, Software, iPhone

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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December 15, 2008 0

Skimming

By Tuinslak in Hardware, Misc

Good to know.

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March 9, 2008 2

Philips Network Hard Disk

By Tuinslak in Hardware, Networking

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 [...]

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